Stories about: Datum

Telstra has announced a C-level restructure of its top IT decision makers that will see John McInerney promoted to chief information officer and Tom Lamming to the new role of senior vice president, transformation.

Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The software, acquired from Mentor Software will help users to more easily support geographic coordinate conversions and allow accurate and precise geospatial analysis. This planned donation joins several previous Open Source donations by the company, including the web mapping MapGuide and the geospatial data access technology (FDO) software, both donated last year.

Showing that Telstra CIO Jeff Smith hasn't lost his enthusiasm for Linux, the telco last week celebrated the launch of a new billing system codenamed Raptor-E.

The explosion of e-business and the massive amount of data it created has made data management and organization more important than ever. We often hear the terms database, data warehouse and data mart, but the differences among them aren't always clear. Some experts say that the difference between, say, a data mart and a data warehouse is more conceptual than real. Nonetheless, here are some general rules of thumb to sort out these terms.

-- A database is an organized collection of information. -- A data warehouse is a very large database with special sets of tools to extract and cleanse data from operational systems and to analyze data. -- A data mart is a focused subset of a data warehouse that deals with a single area of data and is organized for quick analysis.

The explosion of e-business and the massive amount of data it created has made data management and organization more important than ever. We often hear the terms database, data warehouse and data mart, but the differences among them aren't always clear. Some experts say that the difference between, say, a data mart and a data warehouse is more conceptual than real. Nonetheless, here are some general rules of thumb to sort out these terms.

Datum EBS President Mark Hastings is a time geek. He talks about clocks the way some guys talk about hot rods. Pop the hood on his company's Trusted Master Clock. Got your Rubidium oscillator. Not slick enough? OK, make it a Cesium oscillator (external, of course). Got your Global Positioning Satellitereceiver card. Got your timing engine. The works.

Losing customers daily, his boss threatening to fire him, Jason Monberg gambled his company's future on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)-a new Java technology. It was the act of a desperate man.

It's about time. In an effort to draw attention to e-commerce in the U.K., the government's new "e-Envoy," Alex Allan, joined U.K. business representatives to officially launch the Greenwich Electronic Time (GeT) today.