For other industries, the demands on IT are no less burdensome when it comes to information security, scalability and integration, and bringing enterprise-class trust to consumer social networking sites.

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Enterprises with data and information that are presently managed within an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will leverage data integration technologies, such as those offered by large established vendors like Informatica, newly recognized vendors like Hadapt or emerging start-ups like Splice Machine, with whom I spoke this morning, and begin a migration towards Big Data, or Big-Data-like techniques to gain insight, and ultimately business value and innovation from data and information.

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