Hadoop and Company Financial Performance

I have posted several times about the impact of the Hadoop eco-system on a several companies (here, here, here, for … 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

This post is more about the technology business than about technology… but it may be relevant as you try to … More

Here are two videos of me speaking from the 2013 Intel Developer Forum FYI. The first has some technical detail: … More

For several years now I have been suggesting that Hadoop will squeeze the big data RDBMSs: Teradata, Exadata, Greenplum, and … More

This is a sidebar to some thinking on an architecture for the Internet of Things here… – Rob I was recently … More

There are so many things in the Internet of Things (IoT) that might record data into your data fabric that … More

Now for SQL Server… continuing the thread on RDBMS-Hadoop integration (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7) I have … More

Sorry for the comic adjective “Hadooped”? The next few blogs will try to evaluate the different approaches to integrating Hadoop … More

Forrester regularly provides fodder for bloggers when they report on the EDW space (see Curt Monash’s review of their last … More