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Merv Adrian

Merv Adrian


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Vice President, Research at Gartner, focusing on Data Management and Integration. Three decades in the IT Industry, most recently running his own IT Market Strategy, prior to that with Forrester as Senior Vice President, earlier with the Giga Information Group.

2013 Data Resolution: Avoid Architectural Cul-de-Sacs

2013 Data Resolution: Avoid Architectural Cul-de-Sacs

By Merv Adrian on January 3, 2013

I had an inquiry  from a client using packaged software for a business system that is built on a proprietary, non-relational datastore (in this case an object-oriented DBMS.) They have an older version of the product – having “failed” with a recent upgrade attempt. The client contacted me to ask about ways to integrate this OODBMS-based […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data integration, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS, Information technology, Software infrastructure

Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

By Merv Adrian on December 10, 2012

At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’  steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running Paraccel’s high-performance columnar, compressed […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, Amazon, analytics, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS, hadoop, mapreduce, On Business Intelligence, Redshift, software licensing, Vendor image and communications | 2 Responses

Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

By Merv Adrian on July 20, 2011

The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Big Data, BigInsights, Brisk, Cassandra, Cloudera, DataRush, Datastax, Eigenbase, EMC, Facebook, Flume, Hadapt, hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, ibm, InfoSphere, Isilon, Karmasphere, Linux, MapR, mapreduce, microsoft, Mondrian, NetApp, NFS, Oozie, Open source, oracle, OSS, pervasive, Pig, Platform Computing, SQLStream, Sqoop, Watson, Yahoo, zookeeper | 1 Response

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

By Merv Adrian on June 23, 2011

In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd – 1000 strong – heard CEO Jim Baum deliver the news: new hardware, software and partnerships.The biggest news was The Appliance Formerly Known As Cruiser, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS Blogs, gartner, ibm, Industry Trends, mapreduce, Netezza, oracle

Twitter Drafting – Marketing in the Tweetstream

Twitter Drafting – Marketing in the Tweetstream

By Merv Adrian on February 2, 2011

Racing fans – cars or bicycles – are familiar with the concept of drafting – travelling close behind another vehicle to reduce wind resistance. The concept is sometimes applied to marketing by savvy practitioners who use the spend of others to multiply their own impact in public consciousness. In recent months, I’ve noticed a growing use of twitter […]

Posted in Business | Tagged hashtag, Industry Trends, Instagram, marketing, social networking, tweetstream, Twitter

IBM STG Trip Report Part 1: Hardware-Software Synergy Yielding Dividends

IBM STG Trip Report Part 1: Hardware-Software Synergy Yielding Dividends

By Merv Adrian on November 30, 2010

Every year in the fourth quarter, IBM assembles its Systems & Technology Group (STG – the hardware guys) executives for discussions with the analyst community to review results and discuss the year ahead. STG’s Senior VP Rod Adkins teed up this year’s meeting with a reminder that STG and Software Group (SWG) both now report […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged blades, datapower, DB2, Exadata, hp, ibm, Industry Trends, Netezza, oracle, power, smart analytics system, SPARC, STG, SWG, workload, workload optimization, zenterprise

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

By Merv Adrian on November 28, 2010

Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has  racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Big Data, Cassandra, Cloudera, crippleware, failover, Flume, hadoop, Industry Trends, Informatica, key-value store, mapreduce, Membase, memcached, MongoDB, mySQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, RDBMS, Riak, Sqoop, SSD

Cloudera-Informatica Deal Opens Broader Horizons for Both

Cloudera-Informatica Deal Opens Broader Horizons for Both

By Merv Adrian on November 26, 2010

Cloudera‘s continuing focus on the implications of explosive data growth has led it to another key partnership, this time with Informatica. Connecting to the dominant player in data integration and data quality expands the opportunity for Cloudera dramatically; it enables the de facto commercial Hadoop leader to find new ways to empower the “silent majority” […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Cloudera, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, EC2, EDW, hadoop, HDFS, ibm, Industry Trends, Informatica, mapreduce, master data management, Membase, RDBMS, Siperian, Sqoop, Teradata, Vertica | 2 Responses

Going to Gartner

Going to Gartner

By Merv Adrian on November 19, 2010

This is a personal note about a professional decision. You might not be interested. If you are, read on. I’ll try to be brief. I’ve had a very fulfilling two years as an independent analyst, succeeding beyond my expectations. I established (or continued) a respected brand, gathered several thousand twitter followers, drew 80,000 blog views […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analysts, gartner, Industry Analysts, Industry Trends | 1 Response

Microsoft Leaps Late, Lags with SQL Server PDW

Microsoft Leaps Late, Lags with SQL Server PDW

By Merv Adrian on November 18, 2010

Microsoft chose a user group meeting, Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), for the rollout of its long-awaited, and late, SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (note, yet again, how foolish it is for vendors to trap themselves with dates in product names.) PDW is late to market; there are other MPP DBMS players […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Bull, DatAllegro, Dell, dynamics, EMC, hp, ibm, Industry Trends, microsoft, oracle, PASS, PDW, SQL Server, SQL Server MPP, Teradata | 1 Response

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