Big Data Go Public Watch – GoodData Good to Go?
As venture capital sources for big data start-ups continue to spread beyond NorCal, we will increasingly see next gen Data Economy start-ups cropping up in places other than San Mateo and San...
View ArticleGE and Cisco Make for Strange Big Data Bedfellows for IBM, Oracle, SAS, SAP...
The world’s five biggest big data vendors must be scratching their heads and thinking, “Everyone wants to get into the act.” Consider their dilemma: VCs have gone wild and spawned dozens, actually...
View ArticleIs Actian Ahead or Ahead of Itself?
Today Actian, the big data shopping spree champ of the past year, began to unveil plans of how its myriad technologies will fit together into comprehensive big data offerings. Specifically, Actian...
View ArticleSlaughterhouse Tech: Talking SMAC About PCs and Asia
Note: QuinnSight is posting over at Horses for Sources, check out the original here! Slaughterhouse Tech: Talking SMAC About PCs and Asia Read ‘em and weep; despite a day where the Dow reached...
View ArticleFoundationDB and Starcounter Show ACID Back in Vogue
Speed in the world of database management software has never gone out of style. Vendors of all stripes continue, as they have for decades, to sashay benchmarks down the runway, and whisper into the...
View ArticleHANA Three Ways
Several years ago I had the lucky fortune to eat an appetizer called “Clams Three Ways” at the recently closed Radius restaurant. For 15 years, Radius shone as one of the rare gustatory beacons in...
View ArticleCould an Informatica and Tableau Strategic Partnership Change Big Data?
On September 9, Informatica and Tableau Software (“Tableau”) announced a “strategic collaboration.” There was no clear commitment to producing a combined solution, except that “Informatica is...
View ArticleOracle Database Too Big to Fail?
I can’t remember how many times I have attended Oracle OpenWorld, and even was one of the many Oracle hosts at several, including in faraway places like Beijing. They all merge together somehow in my...
View ArticleOracle In-Memory Option Resonates
At Oracle OpenWorld this week, Oracle joined the cacophony of in-memory databases with the “in-memory option” for the Oracle Database 12c. Oracle’s counterpoint to existing competitive in-memory...
View ArticleTaking an In-memory Database Grain of Salt
I admit to being fascinated by the current war of words over in-memory databases between Oracle and SAP. But fortunately, unlike the war of words about the shutdown of the USA government, the...
View ArticleINFA Rolling but No Rest for the Information Driven
Informatica (INFA) is on a roll. Just a glance at INFA’s Q3-FY13 financial results, with total revenues increased by 24% year over year, in market where no similarly established enterprise software...
View ArticleLook, up in the Sky: It’s a Warehouse, it’s OLTP, no, it’s HANA Cloud Platform
SAP took its commitment to its SAP HANA Cloud Platform (“HCP”) Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) supersonic at the SAP TechEd conference the week of October 21-25 in Las Vegas. By unveiling a long list...
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