Big Data has exploded, and it can either bury you and your business, or provide greater amounts of insight into customers and potential customers than ever before. In 2007 the total of Global Data was estimated to be 297 exabytes, equivalent to 1.2 billion average hard drives, or the entire area of the USA covered… [read more]
I am an advocate of making hardware and software implementations as simple as possible for everyone involved. When it comes to “version 1″ of Data Warehouse Appliances, however, I become Pooh Bear. Pooh, you see, has a small brain and when a new thought enters it, he has to push the old one out of… [read more]
A wise mentor of mine used to comment on start-ups by saying “it is our job as executives to work out if there’s a pony in the room or just a room full of pony poop.” He would describe how, upon opening the door to a room full of poop, some people would slam the… [read more]
There’s a recent trend among North American mobile carriers to re-brand their 3G cellular networks as “4G”. Originally meant to classify networks approaching 100 Mbps, Sprint began using “4G” for their WiMax network and now – comically – AT&T for their barely 14.4 Mbps HSPA+ phones. Why? It’s easier to print “4G” on the box… [read more]
Data warehouses consume data at an alarming rate, getting larger, fatter, greedier, and slower with each passing day. They hide themselves behind impenetrable walls of batch loads, data cleansing, index building, and data augmentation. And there they sit, chortling like an appliance salesperson, content that, no matter how many nodes you buy, you’ll never get… [read more]
April 1st, 2011 — SAND today announced the general availability of SAND multi-dimensional reality alteration in-database analytics. Legacy technologies have tried to alter reality for years but SAND has taken this concept to a new level. Using the works of Tom Weiler of Vanderbilt University SAND’s multi-dimensional reality alteration analytic engine allows full, fast access… [read more]
I read a post the other day involving two people arguing about which one of their boxes was better. Teradata this. Exadata that. They spent all their time “working” on their system so they had a lot of ammunition for their argument. I suppose if you want to spend your days tuning your system to… [read more]
Apple looks like they have another hit on their hands with iPad 2 and if reports of their enterprise adoption rates are accurate, we’ll only be seeing more of them in business. Now, perhaps, we see why Steve Jobs called it the most important product he’d ever worked on. But Steve Jobs is now on… [read more]
extreme data varieties ranging from ERP to Social Media feeds and the associated explosion in the extreme data volumes is of increasing concern to the enterprise. How fast the data enters the enterprise and how fast it is accessed by users is critical to the equation. Legacy vendors have not had to deal with the… [read more]
Tabular data from ERP, CRM, SCM and operational systems was just the beginning. Now we have web logs, application logs, social media, mobile, tablets, NFC, appliance, machine data, sentiment, context and many other extreme varieties of data. These have caused data volumes to increase exponentially. If enterprises attempt to treat all data equally they will… [read more]
