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

A Short DW DBMS Market History: HANA, Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Teradata, & Greenplum

Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More

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

There is a new way to think about data warehouse architecture. The Gartner Group calls it a logical data warehouse … More

I recently listened to a pitch by a vendor that was well spun. Let’s use this post to consider some … More

This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two … More

I composed the video below on a contract for Intel… but they were kind enough to let me tell the … More

This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous … More

Yesterday I provided a model for how business sees open source as a means to be profitable (here). This is the … More

Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then … More