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Salesforce and the New Bucket of Bits. Phoenix, Ashes.

Salesforce and the New Bucket of Bits. Phoenix, Ashes.

By James Governor on October 14, 2014

When Salesforce.com and Oracle announced a renewal of their vows last year I was kind of surprised. Why would Salesforce deepen its reliance on the Oracle database at a time when others across the industry were lessening their reliance on that venerable and not inexpensive platform. To be fair Oracle database has excellent high availability […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache Hadoop, Big Data, Hbase, HDFS, ibm, oracle, salesforce.com, SQL, Uncategorized

The Old “Don’t Bring Up a Problem Unless You Have a Proposed Solution” Rule

The Old “Don’t Bring Up a Problem Unless You Have a Proposed Solution” Rule

By Dave Kellogg on March 6, 2014

There’s a rule out there, undoubtedly made long ago, and circulated widely as conventional wisdom that in the workplace you should never bring up a problem unless you have a proposed solution. For example, consider the following excerpt from this Inc Magazine article, Eight Things Great Bosses Demand from Employees: Rule 6:  Provide Solutions, Not […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Database, oracle, SQL

A Question of Granularity

A Question of Granularity

By Denis Pombriant on June 12, 2013

There is a long simmering issue coming back to the front burner these days.  It’s the question of best of breed software vs. a single system.  I’ve been giving it a lot of thought and realized something. The old discussion says that best of breed opens up application areas to greater competition from more vendors.  […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged best of breed, Business process, CRM, Enterprise resource planning, erp, netsuite, oracle, salesforce, salesforce.com, SQL, Suite, Zuora

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31

By Dennis Moore on February 7, 2011

Enterprise news and headlines, second half of January 2011 Salesforce.com takes it to a new level with Super Bowl ads, SAP and Microsoft reposition themselves for the cloud – while juggling execs and responsibilities, Microsoft sues former employees and their new employers, Oracle raises the ire of the open source community, Microsoft and SAP deliver […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, android, applications, Big Data, Cloud, Database, databases, erp, google, hp, iaas, ibm, Informatica, Java, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, news, NoSQL, Open source, oracle, PaaS, SaaS, salesforce, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG, SQL, Sun, Tibco, Venture Capital

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

By Merv Adrian on November 8, 2010

Calpont, rapidly emerging as yet another contender in the ADBMS sweepstakes, has announced version 2.0 of InfiniDB, its columnar MPP offering over shared storage. The value proposition hits now-familiar themes: high-performance query, fast data loading, data compression, and parallelized user defined functions (UDFs), all of which are becoming key checkoff capabilities. InfiniDB also hits hard […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, BBBT, Calpont, column stores, columnar, community edition, correlated subquery, data compression, data load, DDL, distributed query, EMC, failover, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, InfiniDB, mapreduce, microsoft, MPP, mySQL, OEM, Open source, oracle, partitioning, Percona, pricing, sap, shared nothing, shared storage, SQL, storage engine, Sybase, Teradata, UDF

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

Aster Data Adds Columnar Storage, Puts Stake in Ground for Hybrid Multistores

By Merv Adrian on September 18, 2010

Aster Data has announced its new version, nCluster 4.6, which now includes a column data store, staking a claim as the first ADBMS to combine SQL and MapReduce on a hybrid row and column MPP system. While its R&D has hitherto been focused on enabling advanced in-database analytic processing in its flagship “Data-Analytics Server, ” […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Aster, column stores, data compression, data modeling, fault tolerance, hybrid multistores, indexing, Industry Trends, mapreduce, MPP, nCluster, partitioning, SQL, statistical analysis, time series, UDF

What can we learn from software development job posts? (Java, SAP, Oracle, SQL, and C#/C++ will get you a job!)

What can we learn from software development job posts? (Java, SAP, Oracle, SQL, and C#/C++ will get you a job!)

By Dennis Moore on August 11, 2010

Several months ago, I posted some analysis of IT-related jobs listed on Dice and Monster. At the time, the hot job skills were SQL, Java, and XML. Things haven’t changed much since April – although some specific skills have moved down or up on the list. In summary, here are some conclusions we can draw […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Dice.com, google, Java, job skills, jobs, labor market, news, oracle, PowerBuilder, salesforce.com, sap, SQL | 3 Responses

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