When was the last time you felt you were taking a flight and getting an aerial view of the entire data landscape? And I don’t mean just the current fad of most-used glamorous word “Big Data”, but also the evolution of database systems since the 60s (CODASYL et al). For those who could not make it to the VOLTDB event, they apparently missed out a $5000.00 event that had Michael and team taking us on this fli ...

Getting one’s arm around sales is a persistent challenge that plagues every CEO, CRO and sales leader; the numbers just keep moving around.  Tracking a pipeline can be like driving across the Golden Gate Bridge on a foggy morning, which is about every morning.  One day the pipeline is strong, the next day panic has set in as it looks like sales will miss its number, followed the next day by claims “it’s OK, ...

Is the day of reckoning for big data upon us? To many observers, the growth in data is nothing short of incomprehensible. Data is streaming into, out of, and through enterprises from a dizzying array of sources-transactions, remote devices, partner sites, websites, and nonstop user-generated content. Not only are the data stores resulting from this information driving databases to scale into the terabyte an ...

When your relational database takes longer to process your data than to collect it, it's time to call in big data technology, said panelists at Interop. Not everyone is sure whether they have big data or not, or whether they need a NoSQL system to handle it. One way to find out, said one adopter of a NoSQL approach, is to ask yourself whether it is taking you longer to process your data than it did to colle ...

Last fall, Twitter announced a partnership with Gnip, making the latter company the only commercial provider of the Twitter activity stream. And although the "firehose" metaphor has been beaten to death, says Gnip CEO Jud Valeski, it still holds true. Valeski spoke today at Gluecon about the challenges of handling the firehose - what it means to process high volume, real-time data streams and to be able to ...

Hot Platform-as-a-Service startup DotCloud is acquiring fellow PaaS startup Duostack in an attempt to gird itself for a fight that’s likely to leave some casualties in the years to come. With PaaS startups proliferating and large vendors such as VMware, Red Hat, Microsoft and Salesforce.com already in the game, DotCloud and Duostack are making a smart move to ensure their mutual survival while combining the ...

The biggest growth in cloud computing will be in hybrid clouds (from 13% now to 43% in three years) according to a recent study by SandHill Group in which they surveyed more than 500 IT executives. Another survey by Evans Data finds an even higher adoption rate among IT developers, suggesting that the hybrid cloud model is set to dominate the coming IT landscape. Given the interest and practicality of hybri ...

Aster Data, a San Carlos, Calif.-based start-up developing software for big data application,s says it’s replacing its founder-CEO — Mayank Bawa — with Quentin Gallivan, formerly of PivotLink, a business intelligence software company. Gallivan was also the CEO of Postini, a mail management company that was acquired by Google in 2007. Bawa will switch roles to become the company’s chief customer officer. The ...

Loraine Lawson spoke with Richard Daley, founder and CEO of the open source data-integration and BI vendor, Pentaho. In this week's Q&A, he explains what Hadoop is and how it's used to tackle “big data problems.” Next week, he'll share how Hadoop changes things for data integration... Follow this posting on ITBusinessEdge..... Find other postings from ITBusinessEdge... ...