Stories about: Dataflow

Greenplum and Aster Data Systems, two startups involved in large-scale data analysis, announced this week that their products will support MapReduce, a programming technique originally developed by Google for parallel processing of large data sets across commodity hardware.

With the continued increase in the number of threats to corporate networks, the importance of network security remains a major issue. Yet the plethora of security offerings means that determining which devices and technology are required for a network and which will provide the best value for money has become more and more difficult.

A new open source data query system combining elements of the PostgreSQL relational database with adaptive query technologies has been released by researchers at the University of California (UC) Berkeley campus.

There's nothing like a good sacking, appointment or mysterious disappearance to spark off the channel rumour mill, and the greatest rumour mongers by far are distributors.

Logitech and Symantec have warned resellers to be cautious when second-hand dealers approach them touting cheap ex-Dataflow products.

Resellers are being warned to take caution when approached with cheap Symantec and Logitech products by second-hand dealers, as the products may not be covered by warranty or service support.

Recent movements in the distribution channel have highlighted just how great a balancing act is required in this day and age to remain a viable business. Jeanne-Vida Douglas reports.

Dataflow creditors were told they are going to have to wait another 14 days before they get any real information regarding the fate of the now defunct education software distributor.

Software developer FileMaker has appointed Tech Pacific as its sole distributor throughout Australia and NZ, following the demise of Dataflow which left them without one of the major links in its channel.

If running a channel business was easy, everyone would do it. Or so goes the cliché. Competition is as rife in the channel as it ever was, but this year we have seen such dynamic changes that bricks-and-mortar companies are moving as fast as their so-called dot-com counterparts.

E-business has changed more than just the way businesses interact with their customers. In some cases, it has also changed the basic principles and assumptions of software engineering processes and methodologies. For example, Barry Boehm first provided us with the insight, in his 1981 textbook, Software Engineering Economics, that if a software engineer made a mistake during a project's systems analysis phase by misstating or overlooking an end-user requirement, it was 10 times cheaper to identify the problem while the project was still in that phase than to allow it to go undetected until design. If that same error remained undetected until the coding phase, it would be 100 times more expensive to fix than if it had been found when it first occurred.