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It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source:  Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1

It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source:  Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1

By Dave Kellogg on November 18, 2014

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, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Big Data, Credit Suisse, Database, Goldman Sachs, hadoop, Hortonworks, Initial public offering, IPO, NoSQL, Open source, Red Hat, startups | 1 Response

News Analysis: The Vibe On Informatica’s Virtual Data Machine

News Analysis: The Vibe On Informatica’s Virtual Data Machine

By R "Ray" Wang on June 4, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Big Data, BigData, Business Models, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Constellation Research, data governance, data integration, data movement, data quality, data streaming, Data to Decisions, data transformation, Data2Decisions, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, ETL, hadoop, Hive, Informatica, Informatica World, information management, information quality, Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a service, News Analysis, Pig, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, VDM, vendor strategy, Virtual Data Machine | 2 Responses

Big data ascends the learning curve

Big data ascends the learning curve

By Phil Wainewright on April 10, 2013

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BigData, hadoop, ibm, MongoDB, SAP AG, Tim Barker, Twitter | 4 Responses

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04

By Dennis Moore on January 4, 2013

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, […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, analytics, android, apple, BI, Big Data, business intelligence, Cassandra, Cloud, Database, Dell, Dennis Moore, Ensw, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, Hewlett-Packard, hp, iaas, ibm, Infor, Informatica, iPad, iPhone, IPO, IT, IT Failure, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, mobile, netsuite, NoSQL, Open source, oracle, PaaS, Patent, patent troll, RIM, SaaS, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, SAP AG, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, vc, VMware, workday, Yahoo | 1 Response

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

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-21

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-21

By Dennis Moore on October 21, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, Big Data, Chromebook, citrix, Cloud, Dell, Dennis Moore, Ensw, enterprise software, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, Hewlett-Packard, hp, ibm, Infor, Informatica, iPad, iPhone, IT, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, mobile, netsuite, Open source, oracle, Patent, RIM, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, SAP AG, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, VMware, Windows 8, workday, Yahoo, YouTube

Workday Rising

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-15

By Dennis Moore on October 15, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, Big Data, citrix, Cloud, Dell, Ensw, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, hp, ibm, Infor, Informatica, iPhone, IT, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, netsuite, Open source, oracle, Patent, RIM, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, SAP AG, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, VMware, workday, Yahoo | 1 Response

Why CIOs Are Quickly Prioritizing Analytics, Cloud and Mobile

Why CIOs Are Quickly Prioritizing Analytics, Cloud and Mobile

By Louis Columbus on October 11, 2012

Customers are quickly reinventing how they choose to learn about new products, keep current on existing ones, and stay loyal to those brands they most value.  The best-run companies are all over this, orchestrating their IT strategies to be as responsive as possible. The luxury of long technology evaluation cycles, introspective analysis of systems, and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2012 Cloud Predictions, analtytics, analytics, Big Data, BigData, business intelligence, CIO, CIO Priorities, Cloud Computing, enterprise-it, gartner, gartner report, hadoop, IDC SaaS Forecasts, insight technology, Louis Columbus' blog, mobility, SaaS, SaaS Early Adopter Research, Social Media Analytics, technology, technology priorities | 2 Responses

Howard St. Will be Closed at Third St. for Dreamforce

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-09-15

By Dennis Moore on September 15, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Dreamforce, Dreamforce, Dreamforce: Coming this week to San Francisco, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce show will feature somewhere in the neighborhood of 100K attendees (including 30K in the cloud and 70K on premise), including me.  San Francisco will feature massive lines at restaurants, no available hotel […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, Big Data, citrix, Cloud, Dell, Ensw, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, hp, ibm, Infor, Informatica, iPhone, IT, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, netsuite, Open source, oracle, Patent, RIM, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, SAP AG, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, VMware, workday, Yahoo

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-08-20

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-08-20

By Dennis Moore on August 20, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Many more details emerge about Microsoft’s upcoming “Surface” tablet.  Will Microsoft Office compatibility, plus Windows 8’s distinctive user experience (formerly known as “Metro”) be enough to overcome iOS and Android tablet momentum? HP and Microsoft continue to take hits – are they as […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged android, apple, Big Data, citrix, Cloud, Dell, Ensw, Facebook, google, hadoop, HANA, hp, ibm, Infor, Informatica, IT, Java, jobs, Linux, microsoft, netsuite, Open source, oracle, Patent, RIM, salesforce.com, samsung, sap, Sybase, tablet, Tibco, Twitter, VMware, workday, Yahoo

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