The secret data warehouse tax
There’s a dirty little secret in the traditional transactional data warehouse world: they know how to tax you as effectively as any profligate government. You invest in your data warehouse. You invest time. You invest money. You dedicate personnel and resources to your data warehouse. You pay the vendor to…
Bringing the Analytic Data Warehouse to the Cloud
Previously I wrote about Apple’s Steve Jobs and the importance of great software. Now it’s time for antithesis; Ray Ozzie, who recently announced he was leaving the position he inherited from Bill Gates, that of Microsoft’s chief software visionary. When Ozzie joined Microsoft he released a memo setting out a…
On openness, integration, and the importance of great software
The topic of platform openness vs. tight hardware integration, and the importance of great software is once again lighting up the blogsphere, thanks to comments made last week by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. The iPhone and iPad maker’s remarks, directed towards rival Research in Motion, were biting. He accused RIM…
Real-time business intelligence requires innovation, not integration
I gave my take on the IBM Netezza acquisition yesterday, but Steve Lohr’s post, *I.B.M.’s Hybrid Strategy in Business Intelligence*, on *the New York Times* blog caught my eye. In it, Lohr says: >The real-time model of business intelligence, though, requires not just software, but a tight integration with hardware….
IBM and Netezza: 1990 is calling, wants its database strategy back
It seems like just the other day I was shaking my head at the determination of relational database vendors to keep fine-tuning their legacy software in order to optimize it for dedicated proprietary hardware. In essence, to deliver the last drips of performance by acquiring huge alloy wheels, an enormous…
One with data
This was sent to me while I was working on our upcoming SAND CDBMS 6 launch: >**Tuesday 10:41am:** I am in my office. It’s small, a bit modern, and there are photographs of my family on my desk. My phone rings. I answer, it is the head of our Data…
Thoughts on Cloudera Hadoop and Netezza
Mike Olson recently said the following while announcing a partnership between Cloudera and Netezza: > “Enterprises want to take structured data – customer and transaction data – and combine it will [sic] all the unstructured data coming off their websites…that might not fit into a tabular schema well.” […] “All…
SAND Agile Cloud Scalability in SAND CDBMS V6
SAND has announced the upcoming release of the new version of our flagship product, SAND CDBMS V6, coming on September 2, 2010. SAND CDBMS V6 defines the next generation of column-oriented database management systems with its delivery of Agile Cloud scalability, giving users the ability to scale both on public…
Reduce costs and increase performance for SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) and in-memory database? Yes please!
A short time ago I asked on this blog if SAND CDBMS Nearline for SAP BW could enhance SAP Business Warehouse Accelerator. My question was based on an article from *SearchSAP.com*, but as you know, SAND prefers real world examples and real customer results. Well, during a recent trip to…
Regarding column-oriented databases (CDBMS), Text Search analytics, and how shouting “first!” doesn’t get you the gold
Whether it’s column-based analytics or the Olympics, if running across the finish line yelling, “I’m first! Look at me! Look at me!” three hours after the race finished got you the gold, athletes would spend a lot of time developing their diaphragms and vocal chords, and much less time putting…