• Home
  • Blog
  • Who We Are
  • Contact
  • Sponsors
Enterprise Irregulars
Smart Thinking for the Smart Enterprise
  • Featured Posts
  • Business
  • Technology / Software
  • Trends & Concepts
  • Startup Lessons

Exadata

The Latest Disruption

The Latest Disruption

By Denis Pombriant on June 26, 2013

The stunning announcements that Microsoft and Salesforce.com would become more engaged with Oracle by using its middleware, hardware and associated other products has left many people agape and agog and for good reasons.  We are all more accustomed to covering the initiation of trends and their evolution than their resolutions. Initiations have terms associated with […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Exadata, Larry's Kids, Linux, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Exadata, salesforce.com

Wall Street Cools on Oracle

Wall Street Cools on Oracle

By Denis Pombriant on March 13, 2012

News out in the virtual world is that some analysts have trimmed their sails regarding Oracle’s financial picture.  The company missed its revenue forecast last time and today the financial guys are concerned about competition in the database business and lack of strong market support for the company’s hardware. Competition from companies like SAP with […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Barrons, Database, economics, Exadata, Exalogic, HANA, oracle, sap, technology

Open World Day 1 #OOW11

Open World Day 1 #OOW11

By Denis Pombriant on October 5, 2011

Oracle is a big company and that point gets driven home when you start to go in-depth on their products.  At a show like OpenWorld which is dedicated more or less to touching on every aspect of the business, you can quickly get out of your depth. Since the opening keynote on Sunday the talk […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, CRM, EMC Corporation, Exadata, Exalogic, OOW, oow11, OpenWorld, oracle, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Open World

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

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

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game

By Merv Adrian on November 4, 2010

The Data Computing Appliance, first deliverable from EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, was announced last month, only 75 days after the acquisition closed, and it doesn’t lack for ambition.  Pat Gelsinger, EMC CEO, pointed to the high level opportunity: unlocking the “hidden value” of enormous and growing data assets every company is increasingly holding, and often […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster Data, backup, Cisco, data load, Data replication, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, DBMS, deduplication, Dell, EMC, Exadata, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, intel, MPP, multicore, oracle, ParAccel, rack, RDBMS, RecoverPoint, recovery, SAN, server, Storage, Sybase IQ, terabyte, Teradata, Vblock, VCE, Vertica

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

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

feed mail facebook twitter linkedin

EI Tweets

My Tweets

Popular Posts

  • Centrify’s Tim Steinkopf On How To Think Like A Cybersecurity CEO
  • Thursday’s Tech Showcase: SnapLogic Tackles Cloud/SaaS Integration Challenges
  • Microsoft: A new era of vertical integration?
  • Beyond The Three V’s of Big Data – Viscosity and Virality
  • Why Trust Is Emerging As The Most Powerful Catalyst Of Selling Effectiveness
  • The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management
  • Gartner Predicts Public Cloud Services Market Will Reach $397.4B by 2022
  • How To Deal With Ransomware In A Zero Trust World

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Authors

  • Anshu Sharma
  • Bob Warfield
  • Brian Sommer
  • Dave Kellogg
  • David Terrar
  • Denis Pombriant
  • Dion Hinchcliffe
  • Esteban Kolsky
  • Evangelos Simoudis
  • James Governor
  • Jason Corsello
  • Jason M. Lemkin
  • Louis Columbus
  • Michael Krigsman
  • Naomi Bloom
  • Paul Greenberg
  • Phil Fersht
  • R "Ray" Wang
  • Raju Vegesna
  • Ross Mayfield
  • Sameer Patel
  • Sandy Kemsley
  • Susan Scrupski
  • Thomas Otter
  • Tom Raftery
  • Vijay Vijayasankar
  • Vinnie Mirchandani
  • Zoli Erdos