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Why The Next App You Use Might Be In A Social Network

Why The Next App You Use Might Be In A Social Network

By Dion Hinchcliffe on August 3, 2011

While social networks are still just getting their sea legs in most organizations, the next big leap forward — in addition to social analytics — is likely to be the integration of our productivity and line of business apps into our activity streams. Will this unleash significant new value? Very probably. But it’s also possibly the big integration […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, mashups, SOA, social business, social computing | 4 Responses

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

IBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….

IBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….

By Merv Adrian on November 15, 2010

It was hard to decide where to look first in Las Vegas this year at IBM’s flagship information management event. Coming as it did on the heels of a massive, sprawling Oracle Open World, it was also overwhelming, but distinguished itself immediately by its focus. Whereas Oracle has smashed together hardware systems, apps, middleware, java […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cisco, cluster, cognos, column stores, CPU, cubing services, data compression, data governance, Data mining, Database, DB2, DBMS, Exadata, flash, Guardium, ibm, Industry Trends, information management, Informix, InfoSphere, IoD, Linux, mainframe, mdm, microsoft, Omegamon, Optim, oracle, PL/SQL, power, pureSca, QMF, replication, sap, shared storage, smart analytics optimizer, smart analytics system, SQL Server, SSD, text analytics, time series, Websphere, zenterprise

Oracle’s Exadata Refresh Ups Ante on Technology and Selling Strategy

Oracle’s Exadata Refresh Ups Ante on Technology and Selling Strategy

By Merv Adrian on November 11, 2010

The Exadata marketing story is unrelenting, and Oracle backed it with plenty of happy customers for analysts to query at Open World this year. The stories were compelling; I’ll mention a few below. In the analyst pitch, we were shown a couple of dozen logos – good for a still relatively new high-end, long sales […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, compression, data compression, Exadata, gigabit ethernet, Industry Trends, Infiniband, Larry Ellison, microsoft, oracle, PDW, PMML, POC, rack, sales, sap, SAS, SOA, SQL Server, storage server, Teradata, XEON

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