Here is a quick review of tens years of data warehouse database competition… and a peek ahead… Maybe ten years … More
Tag: Data Warehousing
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
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
Vendor Spin: What is not Metadata… What is not open…
I recently listened to a pitch by a vendor that was well spun. Let’s use this post to consider some … More
How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 3 – EDW on IBM z/OS
This is the 3rd and final example of a vendor admitting, without admitting, to an architectural limitation. The first two … More
A Trend in Systems Architecture
I composed the video below on a contract for Intel… but they were kind enough to let me tell the … More
How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 2 – Teradata Intelligent Memory
This is the second post (see Part 1 here) on how vendors adjust their architecture without admitting that the previous … 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
How DBMS Vendors Admit to an Architectural Limitation: Part 1 – Oracle Exadata
Database vendors don’t usually admit to shortcomings… they protest that they have no shortcomings until the market suggests otherwise… then … More
No Empathy for DevOps
Ugh. I loved the concept of DevOps and talked it up in the companies I was associated with. Within a database … More