This is a short post to segue to point where I’ve been headed all along. Figure 1 recasts the picture … More
Category: Cloud Computing
More on Cloud Data Elasticity
The last post (here) demonstrated how scalability in the cloud provides the ability to reduce runtimes from days or hours … More
Cloud-native Computing, Workloads, and Elasticity
Over the next several weeks, I’ll share my perspective of current best practices for big data, which is the term … More
Back in the saddle
In 2015, President Obama appointed me the CIO of the Social Security Administration, and I had to stop posting here. … More
A New Way of Thinking About EDW Federation
There is a new way to think about data warehouse architecture. The Gartner Group calls it a logical data warehouse … More
An Elastic Shared-Nothing Architecture
In this post we will consider again the implications of implementing a shared-nothing architecture in the cloud. That is, we … More
Thinking About the Pivotal Announcements…
Yesterday I provided a model for how business sees open source as a means to be profitable (here). This is the … More
Open Source is Not a Market…
This post is more about the technology business than about technology… but it may be relevant as you try to … More
Thoughts on Oracle 12c…
Here are some quick thoughts on Oracle 12c… First, I appreciate the tone of the announcements. They were … More
Chaos, Cloud Computing, and the Data Warehouse
David Linthicum suggests here that Shadow IT is not all a bad thing. He references a PricewaterhouseCoopers study that … More
