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January 2012

Benjamin Anderson

Benjamin Anderson

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From "Overnight" to "Real-time": A Two-Year NoSQL Case Study

Today, Meteor Solutions is backed by Cloudant, a distributed document store based on CouchDB, and provides deeper analytics in real-time. This transition enabled 10x growth and allowed us to open our technology to a much broader range of applications—though not without some bumps along the way.

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Christine Connors, Kevin Lynch

Christine Connors

Kevin Lynch

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Webinar: Getting Started With Unstructured Data

What is "unstructured data," and how does it differ from "structured data?" And what really is "semi-structured data?" How do I know which kind I have, and what kinds of technologies can I use to manage it?

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Christine Denney

Christine Denney

PRACTITIONER-TO-PRACTITIONER

Has the Semantic Web Killed MDM?

It's no secret that I am pro-MDM (Not the "throw everything in a hub" type of MDM, but the discipline of identifying and managing the "who, what, and where" entities that are important to the Enterprise). However, it may not be well-known that I am also pro-Semantic Web. I still see just as much promise in its ability to integrate disparate data sets as I did when a co-worker and I founded a W3C interest group a few years ago. When the opportunity to attend a talk about the Semantic Web presented itself, I jumped at the chance to hear someone else's perspective on using Semantics to tackle data issues. CLICK TO CONTINUE »

Anjul Bhambhri

Anjul Bhambhri

FEATURED CONTRIBUTOR

Anjul Bhambhri

Anjul Bhambhri recently joined the DATAVERSITY contributing team featuring her first blog at the end of November titled, "The Data Scientist: An Emerging Career in Data Management." Anjul has 23 years of experience in the database industry with engineering and management positions at IBM, Informix and Sybase. She is currently IBM's Vice President of Big Data Products, overseeing product strategy and business partnerships. Previously at IBM, Anjul focused on application and data lifecycle management tools and spearheaded the development of XML capabilities in DB2 database server. In 2009, she received the YWCA of Silicon Valley's "Tribute to Women in Technology" Award.

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Shannon Kempe, Executive Editor

Shannon Kempe

Executive Editor

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

The question always posed and answered at the beginning of each year is, "What's the new year going to look like?" More specifically for us, "What will be the hot 2012 topics in data management?" Based on feedback from you, our subscriber, and from our experience of how webinars, articles and blogs were received, there are topics that are clearly trending upwards in 2012. We want you to know we hear you and are working on new educational resources to address these hot topics and more. CLICK TO CONTINUE »

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Webinars

Artifacts to Enable Data Governance

Jan 19 | 2 PM ET
Price: Free
Join Bob Seiner and DATAVERSITY as they kick off their new monthly webinar series titled "Real World Data Governance" with a valuable hour introducing and demonstrating value of several artifacts, developed internally, that will add significant value to your Data Governance Program.
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Making the Case for Data Governance

Jan 24 | 2 PM ET
Price: Free
This presentation provides you with a clear and concise understanding of what data governance functions are required and how they fit with other data management disciplines.
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Enterprise Data World 2012

April 29 – May 3, 2012
Atlanta, GA

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