Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Teradata touted a new Extreme Performance data warehouse appliance and its first-ever enterprise-oriented cloud offering, and that was just the beginning.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- November 4, 2009
The accord with HP is very similar to a partnership that SAP notched six months ago with Teradata. Its similarity raises questions.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 21, 2009
Sooner or later, data warehousing pros will have to come to terms with the remarkable staying power of the mainframe.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 21, 2009
IBM's rumored announcement of an "Exadata Killer" turned attention to Oracle's latest powerhouse. Why is there a surprising paucity of on-the-record information about what enterprises are using Exadata and how they're using it?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 14, 2009
Vendors competing in the fractious analytic database segment sure know how to keep things interesting
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 7, 2009