Another interesting session I attended at the PASS Summit in Seattle was one concerning dealing with VLDBs in SQL Server. It was called “Big Data – Working with Terabytes in SQL Server” presented by ...

In the past year, the Arizona-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider said it has doubled the number of its servers, adding about 500 nodes a month, to run its data centers and cloud services. "We ...

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Big data is opening up new avenues of understanding and activity for companies and the people they serve. At the highest level, this movement provides a significant competitive advantage for prescient ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...

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Microsoft quietly made available this week a new family of R Server data-analytics products. Thanks to a tweet from Tero Alhonen, I found listings on MSDN for a family of new Microsoft R Server ...

The whole point of amassing data about your users is to intelligently analyze that data and uncover new trends and unforeseen behavior. Given, there may never come a time when business intelligence ...

It was a busy week for HP with news of their latest server, Gen8. At the event we brought you live coverage with a host of analysts and executives expressing their thoughts on the new project, and ...

Windows Server 2022: These are the big changes that Microsoft has planned Your email has been sent With regular updates to Windows Admin Center and the Semi Annual Channel, plus Azure Stack HCI and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. In an era where almost everything is touted as being “big data” how do ...