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Database Billboards: Times and Cars and Oracle Competitors Gone By

By Dennis Moore on August 16, 2013

Driving up or down 101 these days, you can’t avoid the new SiliconView billboard – it’s a double-sided electronic billboard, so you can see it whether you are going north- or south-bound, and most of us on 101 are driving slowly enough that we get to see several iterations of the billboard content as we […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Billboard, Database, DB2, ibm, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Informix, Larry Ellison, oracle, San Francisco, sap, SAP Hana, Sybase | 3 Responses

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Quark Summary: Does SAP HANA Change Your Database Strategy for SAP Apps?

By R "Ray" Wang on April 18, 2012

Forward And Commentary SAP’s made big claims about HANA and its capabilities today and into the future.  This Quark goes into the details and Constellation’s point of view. A. Executive Summary Both HANA as an architecture and database alternative indicate SAP’s future direction and next-generation approach. Consequently, numerous clients and SAP customers have inquired on […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, Business suite 7, Chief information officer, CIO, columnar database, CTO, Database, DB2, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise strategy, erp, Hasso Plattner, IBM DB2, IMDB, oracle, Quark Summary, R "Ray" Wang;, Research Report, Research Summary, rwang0, sap, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

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

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

Database Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Database Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving

By Merv Adrian on October 8, 2010

Yes, I know – not everyone believes database benchmarks are useful. My position is that there is value in benchmarks’ role in helping engineers wring out bottlenecks, bugs and performance impediments in their products. In a conversation I recently had with Berni Schiefer, Distinguished Engineer and manager of the DB2 UDB Performance and Advanced Technology […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Exadata, flash, ibm, Industry Trends, microsoft, oracle, pureScale, sap, SQL Server, TPC, TPC-H

More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents

More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents

By Merv Adrian on August 20, 2010

On my second day at TDWI, I was in meetings all day – events like this are a great opportunity for analysts to catch up with many of the companies they follow at one time, and this particular one was packed with sponsors. Congrats to the folks who sell sponsorships – they had a packed […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 1010 Data, ADBMS, column stores, Data Warehousing, DB2, DW, Endeca, hp, Industry Trends, Information Builders, Kickfire, Knightsbridge, mapreduce, MPP, NeoView, ParAccel, Parallel Data Warehouse, sessionization, smart analytics system, Sybase IQ, TDWI, Teradata, Vertica, Xtreme Data

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues

By Merv Adrian on July 6, 2010

EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, AIX, Aster, blades, business intelligence, Cloud, core, CPU, data integration, data load, Data Warehousing, Database, database performance, DB2, DBMS, Documentum, EMC, ETL, Exadata, Exasol, Greenplum, Hardware platforms, hp, ibm, indexing, Industry Trends, Java, Kickfire, Linux, mdm, microsoft, MPP, multicore, Netezza, NoSQL, NUMA, Open source, oracle, PADB, ParAccel, Postgres, PostgreSQL, rack, RDBMS, sap, Solaris, Sun, Sybase, Teradata, TPC, TPC-H, unisys, Vendor image and communications, Virtual Machine, VM, VMware, vSphere, windows | 2 Responses

Oracle Exadata: Early Signs Promising

Oracle Exadata: Early Signs Promising

By Merv Adrian on June 15, 2010

Exadata is looking good. In the past few months, I’ve had the chance to talk to several early adopters of Oracle Exadata V2, some in connection with a sponsored white paper Oracle has just published. It’s still early, but I see this product as a milestone, regardless of its commercial success. That is still to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BladeSystem, Data Management, data storage, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, DB2, DBMS, Exadata, Hardware platforms, hp, I/O, ibm, Industry Trends, Kickfire, microsoft, Netezza, oracle, Parallel Data Warehouse, RDBMS, smart analytics system, Software infrastructure, SQL Server, SSD, Storage, Sun, Teradata | 1 Response

Can IBM POWER 7 hit the C-spot?

Can IBM POWER 7 hit the C-spot?

By James Governor on February 18, 2010

I attended a briefing last week in London with Rod Adkins, SVP IBM Systems and Technology Group, and Robert LeBlanc, who runs IBM’s middleware business. The subject at hand was the new POWER7 chip. If you’re not a hardcore IBM server customer you’ve possibly never heard of POWER. It runs IBM’s mainframes, Unix boxes and […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged DB2, Dell, DSS, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Larry Ellison, OLTP, oracle, POWER 7, STG, Sun Microsystems, SWG, System i

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