In-memory analytics, and databases, are reaching a disruptive tipping point. Why? Why now? How can enterprise IT put them to use effectively? If you are looking for the coolest IT trend for 2012, and a hot topic within that, it is an easy bet that ‘Big Data’ and ‘In-memory Analytics/DBs’ respectively could vie for the honors. By the same token, with any such attention and momentum comes a level of skepticis ...

William Shakespeare wrote: "What's past is prologue." Big Data surely builds on our rich past of using data to understand our world, our customers and ourselves. Now the world is flush and getting flusher in Big Data from cloud, mobile, and the Internet of things. What does it mean for enterprises? In a word: Opportunity. Firms have taken to Big Data. via What Should You Expect from Big Data in 2013? - Info ...

Hive is great for large scale data warehousing applications. In one of my recent projects I was handed over the interesting and challenging task of making Hive behave like an OLTP system i.e., support update and delete. To be more specific, the Hive database needed to be kept in near real time synchronization with multiple OLTP systems. In this post, I will discuss the high level features of the solution ba ...

Guess who benefits when two industry giants compete with each other offering exactly the same set of services? It is RightScale! While the Cloud ecosystem is still recovering from the euphoria of witnessing Microsoft and Google launch IaaS, RightScale is busy porting their ServerTemplates to both the Public Clouds. They are in an enviable position where every new IaaS provider wants to be a part of their pl ...

Big Data is the result of practically everything in the world being monitored and measured, creating data faster than the available technologies can store, process or manage it. Since it is a lot more intuitive to represent information as a “file” than a relational object, there has been a surge of unstructured data, making up as much as 80% of new data we must manage. Organizations are struggling to manage ...

I’ve been working on a big idea for several months.  The genesis of that idea was an internal collaboration about the future of enterprise suites versus business process management suites (BPMS). We actually had a mock debate about the future of these two software categories and asked: Will enterprise suites, like CRM and ERP, dominate in 2015? Or will BPM suites come on strong by 2015 and displace them as ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), as the trailblazing provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), has changed the dialog about computing infrastructure. Today, instead of simply assuming that you’ll be buying and operating your own servers, storage and networking, AWS is always an option to consider, and for many new businesses, it’s simply the default choice. I’m a huge fan of cloud computing in general and A ...

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows. The report is based on responses from 325 IT managers, business users and consultants at small, medium and large companies. Slightly more than a third of the respondents said they are currently running some ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to const ...

Earlier this week, Heroku, the PaaS player Salesforce acquired during last year’s Dreamforce, announced a major new release Celadon Cedar adding some powerful features targeting enterprise customers. They also announced full Node.js support and added Ruby 1.9.2 support. Some of the features include: New process model with support for background processes Procfiles for having a fine grained control over the ...