Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes | CNET News.com
According to the researchers, an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last for only about 20 minutes before it’s compromised by malware, on average
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DM Review – Business Dimensional Modeling: Back to the Future
As I reflect on future of business intelligence, I cannot help but think of what we have accomplished so far. Over the past two decades, there have been incredible changes in the business climate and amazing advancements in technology. As an industry, we have accumulated extensive experience, much of which is available through a variety of publications. Notable advancements include:
- Improved overall reliability of the entire environment.
- Ability to effectively build, administer and query very large and complex analytical databases where it is not uncommon to have multiterabyte dimensional data marts.
- Development of a thriving tools business for ETL and data management technologies.
- Emergence of meta data standards that are beginning to be adopted.
- Harnessing of the Internet for cost-effective delivery to many more people.
- Increase in the number of well defined architectures and methodologies to discuss, debate and provide guidance.
Software That Lasts 200 Years
Many things in society are long-term
In many human endeavors, we create infrastructure to support our lives which we then rely upon for a long period of time. We have always built shelter. Throughout most of recorded history, building or buying a home was a major starting step to growing up. This building would be maintained and used after that, often for the remainder of the builder’s life span and in many instances beyond. Components would be replaced as they wore out, and the design often took the wear and tear of normal living into account. As needs changed, the house might be modified. In general, though, you thought of a house as having changes measured in decades
OpenVMS: An Old Dog Still Doing New Tricks
Thought by many to be long since dead and buried, the OpenVMS operating system persists inside many enterprises
Reality IT: Data Mining – If Only It Really Were about Beers and Diapers | DM Review | Industry Led, Industry Read
At my job, we use data mining tools in order to figure out what the heck is really going on. Data mining has been around for quite some time now. About 10 years ago it was even considered by many BI vendors to be the “next big thing” after ad hoc querying and OLAP tools.
Data Integration: The Common Problem – Working with Merge/Purge and Household | DM Review | Industry Led, Industry Read
Of all the issues related to accumulating and identifying unique data during a data warehouse implementation, perhaps the single most difficult area to control centers around data quality issues. And perhaps the most difficult task that must be accomplished once the data is cleansed and deemed “good” centers around the topic of how to do merge/purge or householding.
Householding is new to me. Must have been ignoring the business side of things for too long.
It certainly reads like he has a product to sell.
The death of data warehousing
The death of data warehousing
by Michael M Carter
March 11th, 2004
In the post-Enron economy, businesses need a better-faster-cheaper way to get at data and turn it into intelligence. The developing regulatory environment will require new levels of openness and transparency for publicly traded corporations of all shapes and sizes.
Something Wiki This Way Comes
Now, Pisarro has wikis transforming the way people work at the company he founded, software maker Aperture Technologies Inc. Two dozen of the Stamford (Conn.) company’s 100 employees use them to brainstorm, track projects, write and edit documentation, and coordinate marketing. That has eliminated countless meetings, conference calls, and back-and-forth e-mails. Says Pisarro: “Wikis allow this collaboration much better than anything else, so we get things done faster.”
ITM launches integrated suite to manage the business of IT – Computerworld
MAY 28, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) – ITM Software Corp. this week launched an integrated suite of IT management applications that early users and consultants said is something akin to an ERP system for CIOs
In my InfoWorld column this week (“Blogging behind the firewall“), I write about a small but really amazing outpouring of information-sharing in InfoWorld’s IT department since we started a group weblog a few months ago. After I filed my column, I came across a Jon Udell column (“Publishing a project weblog“) on roughly the same subject (with slight differences which I’ll get to in a moment) — about a year ahead of me, as Jon tends to be. In my experience so far, weblogs work best as documentation repositories in the spirit of what Scott Ambler has written about as “agile documentation,” a concept I also discussed recently.
Scoble wonders what we write about in our internal InfoWorld weblog. Here are a few recent headlines to posts with some background info in parentheses:
- Vacation – IT staff (a scintillating view into the summer vacation schedule for InfoWorld’s IT staff)
- Long-term equipment plan (5-year plan for Test Center capital spending)
- FY 05 Capital budget planning (our purchase plans for web site scaling, desktop/laptop replacements, etc. for next fiscal year)
- Oracle migration procedure (a step-by-step explanation of what we did to upgrade from Oracle 8i on Solaris to Oracle 9i on Linux for our CMS)
- Firewall settings (see why this stuff isn’t public?)
- MX record trick to fake out spammers
- InfoWorld: Behind the Music (a link to a Quicktime video clip of various members of the InfoWorld IT team rocking out during a recent off-site retreat, shot with an iSight camera — see the photo of Wade Grubbs — our systems administrator and resident musician — with this post)