Implementing And Operating An Open Government Organization
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Some business trends in the data warehouse market
Updated: 2010-03-19 06:48:42In recent conversations with various analytic DBMS vendors, a fairly consistent picture has emerged. Business is strong. Multiple vendors claim to be going gangbusters, with the happy sounds coming out of Vertica and Infobright being echoed by several competitors. Hearsay suggests some other companies in related businesses are doing well too. Depending on who you talk [...]Vertica update
Updated: 2010-03-19 06:42:06I caught up with Jerry Held (Chairman) and Dave Menninger (VP Marketing) of Vertica for a chat yesterday. The immediate reason for the call was that a competitor had tipped me off to the departure of Vertica CEO Ralph Breslauer, which of course raises a host of questions. Highlights of the call included: Vertica had [...]Infobright blog update
Updated: 2010-03-19 06:42:01I often offer that, if a company puts up a sufficiently good blog post, I’ll link to it. Well, I just noticed that Infobright CEO Mark Burton (somewhere along the way he seems to have dropped the “interim”) put up an excellent post last month. Highlights on the market share/sector side include: Infobright’s customer base grew 500% [...]10 Principles for Successful Communities
Updated: 2010-03-18 22:01:35
: Sign In Home KM Topics KM Overview Case Studies About Us Search 10 Principles for Successful Communities By Lauren Trees on March 18, 2010 Comments 0 We hope you will be able to join us for APQC's March 2010 knowledge management community call featuring guest facilitator Stan Garfield , community evangelist at Deloitte During the call , Stan will present 10 principles for successful communities based on his experiences creating , leading , and managing communities and communities programs both inside and outside of organizations . This one-hour call will take place next Thursday , March 25, at 10:30 a.m . Central time You can register for the call at https : www1.gotomeeting.com register 204945736 To read more about Stan , visit his Web site at http : sites.google.com site stangarfield Tags community call CoPs Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info Comments You may use HTML tags for style Recent Entries 10 Principles for Successful Communities Is a Digital Nation Necessarily a Dumber Nation Making Sure Your KM Initiatives Complement Your Organization's Culture Power in the Palm of Your Hand Mentoring : Is It for You Successfully Measuring KM : The RightXtremeData update
Updated: 2010-03-17 22:17:23I talked with Geno Valente of XtremeData tonight. Highlights included: XtremeData still hasn’t sold any dbX stuff (they’ve had a side business in generic FPGA-based boards paying the bills for years). Well, there may have been some paid POCs (proofs of concept) or something, but real sales haven’t come through yet. XtremeData does have three prospects who [...]Tackling the Talent Crisis
Updated: 2010-03-16 13:41:49Last week, at the NAMIC conference, we spoke to a packed room of underwriters about “Bridging the Gap with Collaborative Technology.” In an open-ended survey, we asked attendees about their challenges with hiring, staff development, best practices, and knowledge sharing. We received some expMemcached-based company NorthScale launches
Updated: 2010-03-16 10:52:48NorthScale, a start-up based around memcached, has just launched, two weeks after the Todd Hoff’s post arguing the MySQL/memcached combo is passe’. NorthScale wouldn’t necessarily argue with Todd, arguing that what you really should use instead is NorthScale’s combo of memcached and MemBase, a memcached-like DBMS … … or something like that. I don’t intend to [...]Some NoSQL links
Updated: 2010-03-12 15:51:42I plan to post a few things soon about MongoDB, Cassandra, and NoSQL in general. So I’m poking around a bit reading stuff on the subjects. Here are some links I found. A little over a year ago, Julian Browne put up a great post on Eric Brewer’s CAP conjecture/theorem, which provides much of the impetus [...]Workerscomp ForumTM Update: March 11, 2010
Updated: 2010-03-11 17:07:06In this issue: Proving you pay too much premium; ASSE urging OSHA for better rule; lingering pain for 9/11 workers; designing better employees; how not to void TTD; Zachry zeroes in on audits; Rousmaniere's ruminations; and more. Sponsor: myMatrixx Good medicine for business Makes workers' comp claims easier and less expensive. See the black dots move? myMatrixx is on the move too. Technology Plus: technology + proactive expertise + productivity improving processes WORKERS' COMP NEWS ASSE urgesData exploration vs. data visualization
Updated: 2010-03-01 01:29:47I’ve tended to conflate data exploration and data visualization, and I’m far from alone in doing so. But a recent Economist article is a useful reminder that they aren’t exactly the same thing. The article makes the same conflation, but while reading it I noticed something interesting. The concrete examples cited are of clever consultants who [...]People are very confused about privacy
Updated: 2010-02-25 05:49:29According to CNet, Anthony Stancl ran an interesting scheme: Stancle had been accused of creating a Facebook profile belonging to a nonexistent teenage girl and then, between approximately the spring of 2007 and November of 2008, using it to convince more than 30 of his male classmates to send in nude photos or videos of themselves. Stancl [...]Is a Digital Nation Necessarily a Dumber Nation?
Updated: 2010-02-22 23:22:46
: Sign In Home KM Topics KM Overview Case Studies About Us Search Is a Digital Nation Necessarily a Dumber Nation By Carla O'Dell on February 22, 2010 Comments 0 Continuing the theme of my last post on digital devices I really enjoyed the PBS.org documentary Digital Nation which talks about the growing dominance of digital media and interaction on all our lives . nbsp My husband and I had to pause the TiVo every five minutes to process what we were seeing . Both the entire documentary and short segments are available at this link My last two sentences are an ironic commentary on the message of the documentary itself : Are all our digital devices making us dumb , prompting us to think in sound bites instead of essays and willing to settle for just good enough instead of great when it comes to knowledge and information Or is the current transformation just a case of a new generation finding its own way After all , every generation in recent memory has been more productive than the . last However , that tide could be reversing . nbsp Even though each generation of Americans in the past century has lived longer and been healthier than its parents , the next one promises to be sicker ,