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Jeremiah Johnson, Hari Seldon, and Google
A very good friend of mine recently shared how a close relative had just gone off the grid. Driven by fear of impending doom from natural disasters, the relative moved himself and his family deep into...
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I apologize Cloudera, you were right, I was wrong
Over the course of 2012 I met with Cloudera, the leading commercial Hadoop distribution vendor in terms of market penetration, several times. I was always taken aback to find them working on what I...
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CSC Buys Infochimps, Market Goes Bananas
The Upside of a Transformation The word “transformation” has come to carry a strong connotation of “cutting costs.” The typical employee reaction: if your CEO or LOB executive announces a coming...
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The Microsoft CEO’s Job of Removing Elephants
What goal and characteristics should Microsoft consider for their next CEO? How would a new CEO’s excellence in reputation management and telling a story of innovation help Microsoft’s long-term...
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HANA Three Ways
Several years ago I had the lucky fortune to eat an appetizer called “Clams Three Ways” at the recently closed Radius restaurant. For 15 years, Radius shone as one of the rare gustatory beacons in...
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Could an Informatica and Tableau Strategic Partnership Change Big Data?
On September 9, Informatica and Tableau Software (“Tableau”) announced a “strategic collaboration.” There was no clear commitment to producing a combined solution, except that “Informatica is...
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Sumo Logic Anomaly Detection Teaches Splunk a Lesson
On September 10, 2013, Sumo Logic unveiled its Anomaly Detection solution, a natural follow-on to its pattern recognition LogReduce technology made available during 2012. The Anomaly Detection...
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Oracle In-Memory Option Resonates
At Oracle OpenWorld this week, Oracle joined the cacophony of in-memory databases with the “in-memory option” for the Oracle Database 12c. Oracle’s counterpoint to existing competitive in-memory...
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Taking an In-memory Database Grain of Salt
I admit to being fascinated by the current war of words over in-memory databases between Oracle and SAP. But fortunately, unlike the war of words about the shutdown of the USA government, the...
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Major Milestone: Hadoop Reaches SaaS
On October 7th, MapR, one of the original commercial Hadoop distributors, and Xactly, a leading Cloud-based sales incentive compensation solution provider, unveiled how Xactly had deployed a key...
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The Solution: Fire Congress, Replace with Watson and Urika, or a Chimp
I have no political party affiliation; have always been an independent. I typically maintain a “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” political position. That means I believe all people should be...
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Your First Data Driven Steps: Data Privacy and Data Governance
As “Big Data” hyperbole descends towards the horizon’s edge, like “Web Services” and “SOA” before it, “Data Driven” has begun its ascension. Proof points: A “Data-Driven Business Day” is on the agenda...
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INFA Rolling but No Rest for the Information Driven
Informatica (INFA) is on a roll. Just a glance at INFA’s Q3-FY13 financial results, with total revenues increased by 24% year over year, in market where no similarly established enterprise software...
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Look, up in the Sky: It’s a Warehouse, it’s OLTP, no, it’s HANA Cloud Platform
SAP took its commitment to its SAP HANA Cloud Platform (“HCP”) Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) supersonic at the SAP TechEd conference the week of October 21-25 in Las Vegas. By unveiling a long list...
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