Liz McMillan

As the new year begins, global companies face the coming year's most prominent IT and business challenge: Big Data. The focus for IT will be to provide high performance analytics capabilities at the lowest cost, as business users need to tap into volumes of multi-structured data about their customers and markets to gain competitive advantage. RainStor, a provider of Big Data management software, has released five predictions focused on how enterprise Big Data will affect organizations in 2012. Based on client and partner experience, market research and conversations with industry experts, here are RainStor's five predictions for Big Data in 2012: Prediction #1: Big Data will Transition from Technology "Buzz" to a Real Business Challenge Affecting Many Large Global Enterprises Big Data is largely centered on leveraging the open source Apache Hadoop analytics platform... (more)

New Release of Quest Toad for Oracle Offers Enhancements to Reduce Risk

Today's economy requires IT management to justify the cost of every purchase while ensuring their teams are more productive, agile and versatile than ever before. These pressures filter down to the individual developer, administrator and analyst, who often have to do the work of two or three people. And in the database world, a Big Data and Cloud revolution is changing the way database professionals develop access, manage, and analyze data. Amidst this sea of change, the majority of Fortune 500 companies and more than 2 million individual database professionals continue to rely o... (more)

Cloud Expo New York: How to Use Google Apps Script

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it's free and easy to get started. In his upcoming session at the 12th International Cloud Expo [June 10-13, New York City], Arun Nagarajan, Senior Developer Advocate at Google, will demonstrate all the capabilities of Google Apps Script. Delegates will walk away being able to write their first script. Explore Cloud ... (more)

Ulitzer FAQ Published

"In just over ten days, I had thousands of readers of my articles on Ulitzer, mainly on marketing and sales. It would be nearly impossible to get that at Ning for a new community site!" What is Ulitzer? Ulitzer is a brand new social media tool for creating, delivering, and consuming content on the Web. Anyone can create topics, magazines, and subject-based portals on Ulitzer, pre-populate them with over one million articles available, and launch a new Ulitzer topic in minutes. "In just over ten days, I had thousands of readers of my articles mainly on marketing and sales.  It woul... (more)

Kevin L. Jackson Launches "Government Cloud Computing Journal" on Ulitzer

Kevin L Jackson launched the "Government Cloud Computing Journal" on Ulitzer. The online magazine offers stories and articles on the effective use of cloud computing technologies within the government domain. Kevin L. Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in information technology solutions that meet critical Federal government operational requirements. Currently, he serves as Director, Business Development for Dataline, Inc., and editor of Government Cloud Computing e-zine. Kevin L. Jackson (right) with Cloud Computing Expo conference chair Jeremy Geelan bef... (more)