Profile of Doug Henschen

Executive Editor, Enterprise Apps

Member Since: 11/15/2013
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Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.

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posted in June 2013

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Couchbase Takes On Oracle, MongoDB And Cassandra

6/28/2013
Couchbase has added features to match MongoDB and Cassandra, but Oracle is the biggest target for this NoSQL database.
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Oracle's Week Of Mega Deals Leaves Questions

6/28/2013
As Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff heaps compliments on Larry Ellison, what's the future for Oracle cloud apps, Force.com?
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Oracle, NetSuite Partner To Storm Cloud

6/27/2013
Oracle joins cloud HR apps with NetSuite ERP to take on SAP and Workday in competition for midsized companies.
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Teradata Doubles Down On Hortonworks Hadoop

6/26/2013
Teradata adds three ways of deploying and supporting Hortonworks software, giving a big boost to "100% open source" big data platform.
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Splunk Spawns Hunk Hadoop Tool

6/26/2013
Splunk brings its analytic know-how to the multi-structured data living in HDFS with Hunk, a new stand-alone system aimed at Hadoop users.
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Software AG Takes Messaging To Industrial Internet Scale

6/25/2013
Terracotta Universal Messaging addresses real-time, big data movement in e-commerce, retail point-of-sale, oil and gas, and financial services applications.
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Oracle And Salesforce.com Link Clouds

6/25/2013
Salesforce.com commits to Oracle Database, middleware and Exadata; Oracle integrates cloud HCM and financial apps with Salesforce.com in a nine-year deal.
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Oracle Goes All In On Microsoft's Cloud

6/24/2013
Oracle middleware and database to be certified on Windows Server Hyper-V and Azure. Microsoft gains Oracle stack and Java on Azure.
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Datameer Democratizes Advanced Big Data Analytics

6/24/2013
Datameer 3.0 promises drag-and-drop machine learning with clustering, column-dependency, decision tree and predictive recommendations on top of Hadoop.
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Oracle Makes Big Promises After Weak Earnings

6/21/2013
Oracle's fourth-quarter financial results showed little growth, but CEO Larry Ellison talks up cloud gains and plans to beat SAP Hana with an in-memory database upgrade.
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Big Data Reboots Real-Time Analysis

6/20/2013
Why did Software AG buy Apama and Tibco buy StreamBase? Perhaps the Internet of Things is giving complex event processing a second chance.
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Microsoft Dynamics Apps Hit Azure Cloud

6/19/2013
Microsoft makes good on promised cloud hosting of Dynamics GP and Dynamics NAV ERP apps. Dynamics AX will be the real, multi-tenant test.
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Oracle Wins Case Against Third-Party Support Provider

6/18/2013
Judge finds in Oracle's favor against ServiceKey and its CEO, Angela Vines, in case involving Solaris operating system support.
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MySQL Cluster Adds NoSQL Option

6/17/2013
MySQL Cluster 7.3 brings a JavaScript connector, foreign-key support and a wizard-driven auto installer to a highly scalable database.
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Big Data Pioneers Get Big For Their Britches

6/14/2013
DataStax and Cloudera say NoSQL databases and Hadoop are the future, but don't count out Oracle and company just yet.
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Cray Brings Hadoop To High-Performance Computing

6/13/2013
Cray puts Intel's Hadoop software distribution on its CS300 cluster supercomputers.
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HP Gets Its Big Data Act Together

6/12/2013
Hewlett-Packard's 'HAVEn' ecosystem unites Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica and enterprise security, backed by management software and consulting services.
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Defending NSA Prism's Big Data Tools

6/11/2013
The more you know about NSA's Accumulo system and graph analysis, the less likely you are to suspect Prism is a privacy-invading fishing expedition.
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Marketo: Salesforce-ExactTarget Combo Won't Win

6/11/2013
CEO Phil Fernandez says Marketo is leading digital marketing while Salesforce.com is buying 'commodity' capabilities with its $2.5 billion ExactTarget deal.
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Salesforce.com Appoints Oracle Vet As President

6/7/2013
Oracle's long-time sales kingpin Keith Block lands top spot at Salesforce.com one year after a nasty split with his former employer.
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NoSQL Vs. Hadoop: Big Data Spotlight At E2

6/6/2013
Hadoop is the panacea, while NoSQL databases are the unsung heroes. Execs from MetLife, 10Gen, Informatica and Datameer discuss platform envy at E2 in Boston.
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Cloudera Declares End Of Data Warehousing Era

6/4/2013
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson urges companies to reconsider their data-management approach as the "center of gravity" shifts toward Hadoop.
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Salesforce.com's ExactTarget Buy Equals Marketing Clout

6/4/2013
Salesforce.com strikes $2.5 billion mega-deal to extend the breadth and depth of its marketing cloud services.
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Microsoft Debuts Next-Gen Server Software

6/3/2013
Microsoft announces in-memory-enhanced Microsoft SQL Server 2014, supports hybrid cloud with Windows Server and System Center upgrades.
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