Updated: 2010-08-31 23:13:30
OCLC is holding a two-day WorldCat Mashathon on September 23-24, 2010 at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cost is $30. “Join fellow coders for a two-day WorldCat Mashathon at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD). Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and Brandeis University, the WorldCat [...]
Updated: 2010-08-31 14:11:27
Jerry Williams has been appointed assistant vice president of Business Development for CNA. In this role, Williams will help support CNA's goals to build a more effective organizational sales ...
Updated: 2010-08-26 00:52:30
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Updated: 2010-08-25 13:29:13
It takes more than a bad economy and declining prices to weaken property/casualty insurance brokers.
Moody's Investors Service says in its new Industry Scorecard report that the insurance ...
Updated: 2010-08-19 04:29:16
50 Ways To Leave Your LegacyInformation ManagementIn a new video posted here at the INN site, Richard Znidarsic, VP of Accident Fund Holding Co. asked Matt Josefowicz of Novarica (joined by INN's Carrie ...and more »
Updated: 2010-08-18 03:37:55
On my recent trip to California, neither I nor my clients at Northscale covered ourselves in meeting-arranging glory. Still, from the rushed 30 minute meeting we did wind up having, I finally came away feeling good about Membase’s product direction.
To review, Membase is a reasonably elastic persistent data store, sporting the memcached API, making memcached/Membase [...]
Updated: 2010-08-18 02:47:09
DB2 has added a lot of workload management features in recent releases. So when we talked Tuesday afternoon, Tim Vincent and I didn’t bother going through every one. Even so, we covered some interesting subjects in the area of DB2 workload management, including:
If your goal is to keep a certain class of queries from [...]
Updated: 2010-08-17 23:44:59
My PhD was in a probability-related area of mathematics (game theory), so I tend to squirm when something is described as “random” that clearly is not. That said, a comment by Shilpa Lawande on our recent Flash/temp space discussion suggests the following way of framing a key point:
You really, really want to have multiple data [...]
Updated: 2010-08-17 05:59:05
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Updated: 2010-08-16 05:54:03
How corporate America went open-sourceFortuneA similar survey of 300 large public and private companies conducted by Accenture this August found that half are committed to open source software, ...and more »
Updated: 2010-08-12 20:29:24
Named after a certain ubiquitous, fictitious purple dinosaur, “Barney” partnership announcements are ones in which two or more vendors do a song and dance about how much they love each other, but offer little or no substance beyond that.
I use and even define that term fairly frequently, so I decided to create a URL where [...]
Updated: 2010-08-12 04:37:14
I think Teradata’s future product strategy is coming into focus. I’ll start by outlining some particular aspects, and then show how I think it all ties together.
The immediate hook here is that I had a short conversation with Scott Gnau of Teradata yesterday, triggered by Teradata’s acquisition of Kickfire’s assets. Takeaways from that part included:
The [...]
Updated: 2010-08-10 23:30:22
There’s a boom in large-scale analytics. The subjects of this analysis may be categorized as:
People
Financial trades
Electronic networks
Everything else
The most varied, interesting, and valuable of those four categories is the first one.
That may change some day, with the growing importance of machine-generated data, and of big-data science in particular. But I think it’s a fair assessment [...]
Updated: 2010-08-09 20:37:51
I’m back from a trip to the SF Bay area, with a lot of writing ahead of me. I’ll dive in with some quick comments here, then write at greater length about some of these points when I can. From my trip:
Aster Data showed me a lot of customer names and deal sizes, across [...]
Updated: 2010-08-09 18:02:17
I spent considerable time last week with my clients at both Greenplum and EMC (if we ignore the fact that the deal has closed and they’re now the same company). I also had more of a hardcore engineering discussion than I’ve had with Greenplum for quite a while (I should have been [...]
