The word “agile,” marched into the IT vocabulary in 2001 when a small band of software developers wrote and published The Manifesto for Agile Software Development , hoping thereby to increase the quality and speed of software development. The initiative had legs and thus the term “agile” was soon kidnapped by marketers, and we began to hear of agile project management software, agile data warehousing, agile BI and even agile master data management (MDM).

How much do we need to care about database costs ? The database is little more than a cupboard that you throw data into and aren’t all databases nowadays just more of the same? Don’t they cost pretty much the same no matter which you choose?

In reality, costs vary considerably, and the choice is broad . There’s more choice than there ever used to be, as many

Part 3 of a three-part blog series by guest blogger Charles Araujo, Principal Analyst of Intellyx . Full content can be found in our new eBook, “ The Secrets to Winning the Cloud Game .”

By now, you’ve heard me explain the rules of this new cloud game and some of the cards

Part 2 of a three-part blog series by guest blogger Charles Araujo, Principal Analyst of Intellyx . Full content can be found in our new eBook, " The Secrets to Winning the Cloud Game ."

In my last blog , I talked about how the cloud game comes with a new set of rules software developers