15 articles in this selection
| 2009/09/23 Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source?
Gartner's Andrea Di Maio seems to think so in his blog post a couple of weeks ago. According to Di Maio, the primary advantages for open source - vendor independence (since you have the source code) and cost (it's "free" plus you get to leverage the collective strength of the community) are no longer valid...at least not for government agencies. He argues that cloud computing offers a better proposition for these agencies and by extension, other larger enterprises. Is Di Maio right?...
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| 2009/08/03 Columnar databases, appliances, cloud computing top BI trends
This is the first of a two-part series that will examine trends and market drivers in data warehousing and business intelligence for the second half of 2009 and, just as important, what IT directors, managers and executives should do about them.
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| 2009/07/27 Decline of the Enterprise Data Warehosue Due to Hadoop, HBase, and Hive
With the rise of Social Media and the decreasing cost of storage, very small companies have a need for processing massive quantities of data. Furthermore, it's easier than ever to write software to generate/output/process data, thanks to languages like Ruby, frameworks like Spring, and scalability best practices. A few days' work and a handful of engineers can net you a bare-bones Twitter clone, or a crawler to get the link graph of the entire Internet. This data growth can be far from linear. You simply can't analyze this much data in an RDBMS - but these small startups can't spend millions on DWs, either. Since the analysis is a core of the business, internal hacked-together tools cobbled together from SQL boxes often emerged. What results is a temporary solution, not a platform. With Hadoop, HBase, and Hive, there’s now a free, scalable Data Warehousing platform that makes it possible to migrate a considerable portion of DW analytics....
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| 2009/07/22 HadoopDB Project
An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads.
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| 2009/07/21 External Reference Data - An Overview
This post provides an overview of the different types of external reference data, discusses how they can benefit data quality and how cloud computing may accelerate their take-up.
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| 2009/07/12 Cloud Pricing and Application Architecture
I have been giving a lot of thought lately to cloud pricing. As an adviser to companies from both sides of the issue -- cloud (IaaS and PaaS) providers and cloud users (and potential users) -- I've had an interesting perspective on the issue, which I will discuss in this and several future posts....
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| 2009/07/08 Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder
Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.
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| 2009/06/24 8 Questions To Ask Before Going Live In The Cloud
You've made the leap, fought the fight, took on the man - pick your catchphrase. You've won. The boss has signed off on your cloud computing initiatives. Now what? Naturally, you'll be creating a full project plan, right? However, you'll need to tweak your standard practices to account for the unique characteristics (and flaws) of cloud computing. Let's run through eight questions you should have a good answer to before you pull the switch....
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| 2009/06/16 Cloud-Based QlikView Still Isn't Available as a Service
Last week’s post about QlikView 9.0 prompted an inquiry from a manager who has been trying for a year to convince his company to consider the product. Having run into this issue many times, I easily felt his pain and we speculated a bit on what might help things along. One obvious tactic would be to purchase QlikView on a pay-as-you-go basis, presumably cloud-based. But a quick check with QlikView confirmed that they don’t allow this and have no plans to change....
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| 2009/06/11 SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the cloud
With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer in the cloud you can visually explore and analyze your Excel spreadsheets. Use Explorer in the cloud with financial data, catalogs, customer lists, music libraries, and many other types of data. Simply upload your Excel file, and you'll be looking at your data in a whole new way....
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| 2009/06/09 The future of data marts
Greenplum is announcing today a long-term vision, under the name Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC).
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| 2009/04/29 BI in the Clouds
Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) is peeking many interests within the IT community. As I stated previously Gartner beleives that 25% of all software will be delivered through an SaaS based service by 2011. At the same time Business Intelligence usage is expected to rise 130% by 2010...
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