The incredible shrinking time to legacy. On Time to Suck as a metric for dev and ops
“All this fuss over nothing. All this searching for something, all this reinventing the wheel, all this searching for something, that’s not real” The Wheel, SOHN 2017 I’ve had a riff for a while about Developer Time To Suck, the half life of a product or project before developers decide it is time to […]
That giant sucking sound? Hadoop moving into the cloud
Hadoop was born in the cloud, as a big data project designed to take advantage of Yahoo’s infrastructure, based on a paper from Google about the map/reduce algorithm. It was never originally designed for on prem enterprise deployment. I recently wrote that some of the issues with Hadoop adoption are cultural, but management overheads […]
Data Transformation is the New Digital Transformation
It’s a truism today that we all need to become data-driven businesses – data is the new natural resource – and so on. But nobody seems to know what that means. Tim O’Reilly was talking about the trend, Data is the new Intel Inside, as long ago as 2005. RedMonk attached itself fairly early – […]
It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source: Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1
It took me a week or so to get to it, but in this post, I’ll take a dive into the Hortonworks S-1 filing in support of a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of their stock. While Hadoop and big data are unarguably huge trends driving the industry and while the future of Hadoop looks very bright indeed, […]
News Analysis: The Vibe On Informatica’s Virtual Data Machine
Informatica Launches Vibe, A Virtual Data Machine For New Business Models At Informatica World 2013 in Las Vegas, Informatica announced the Vibe Virtual Data Machine (VDM). The VDM consists of 4 parts and an SDK (see Figure 1): Transformation library contains pre-built libraries for actions such as combine, transform, cleans, match and mask. Optimizer enables […]
Big data ascends the learning curve
With several big data-themed events coming up this month — among them the global multi-city Big Data Week series — the level of social media chatter around this topic is likely to surge. One vendor that’s well placed to track that buzz is DataSift, whose stock-in-trade is analyzing Twitter data to identify trends. In preparation […]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, […]
Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs
At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’ steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running Paraccel’s high-performance columnar, compressed […]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-21
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past week: Lots of activity in the mobility world – Apple seems to have set the date for the iPad mini (this Tuesday, 23 October), Google promoting the Chromebook, rumors of new Google Nexus devices, Microsoft Windows 8 Surface tablet details announced and pre-orders […]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-15
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past few weeks: Workday opens up to a huge, successful IPO ($WDAY) reestablishing the enterprise software and solutions market as an attractive investment space. Microsoft gears up to launch Windows 8. Upgrade to Windows 8 for $70. Upgrade to iOS6 and Android Jellybean 4.1 […]
