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If database administrators are jet pilots, then data modelers are aerospace engineers, performing the initial design work that enables production systems and applications to use data and drive business processes.

Your business may have started with an idea that popped into your head while freeloading off of the local coffee shop's wireless network. But you can't work out of the Java Hut forever.

Researchers can adjust network infrastructure to boost bandwidth, optimize latency and save power using an experimental technology called OpenFlow.

Alcatel-Lucent posted a net loss of $52 million for the third quarter as sales to carriers dropped, although the loss is smaller than a year ago.

Nuconomy has released its free hosted Studio Web analytics service that its selected beta sites have been using to track about 80 million of their online users since February.

After success in providing self-service data marts for in-house business analysts, the company may follow a growing trend of hosting such easy-to-use services for outside customers.

A report issued by the National Research Council claims that data mining and behavioral surveillance tools are too unreliable to be of any use in detecting terrorists.