Updated: 2011-01-25 21:35:17
Liran Zelkha of ScaleBase raised his hand on Twitter. It turns out ScaleBase has a story rather similar to that of CodeFutures/dbShards. That is: Like dbShards, ScaleBase is a proxy that looks to the application like a scale-out DBMS, but routes work to multiple servers running MySQL against different shards of the database. Other DBMS [...]
Updated: 2011-01-24 21:10:43
Colin White reopened the question of whether enterprise data warehouses (EDW) are still needed, lining up and knocking down a number of traditional pro-EDW arguments, in more detail than I ever have. So this feels like a good time to revisit my answer to the question of the EDW’s role, whose money quote was: At [...]
Updated: 2011-01-24 20:11:10
Look for tablet computers to become important to, if not prevalent, in the workers' comp realm. That's one of the predictions tech-savvy workers' comp participants expect in the not-too-distant future.
Updated: 2011-01-24 20:11:07
The Division of Workers' Compensation adopted new regulations updating the workers' compensation information system.
Updated: 2011-01-24 05:28:08
When I posted a long list of architectural options for analytic DBMS, I left a couple of IOUs in for missing parts. One was in the area of what is sometimes called advanced-analytics functionality, which roughly speaking means aspects of analytic database management systems that are not directly related to conventional* SQL queries. *Main examples [...]
Updated: 2011-01-22 19:07:08
Philip Russom opines (emphasis mine): What’s driving change in data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI)? There are obvious scalability issues, due to burgeoning data, reports, and user communities. Plus, end-users need more real-time and on-demand BI. For many organizations, integrating existing systems into DW/BI is a higher priority than putting in new ones. And [...]
Updated: 2011-01-21 15:56:49
Insurance carriers should use technology to streamline their policies and procedures, as well as help their staff, contractor -More-
Updated: 2011-01-20 11:35:24
I haven’t done a pure notes/links/comments post for a while. Let’s fix that now. (A bunch of saved-up links, however, did find their way into my recent privacy threats overview.) First and foremost, the fourth annual New England Database Summit (nee “Day”) is next week, specifically Friday, January 28. As per my posts in previous [...]
Updated: 2011-01-19 17:05:57
HP and Microsoft put out a press release. Three new appliances are being announced, and we’re being reminded of at least one past announcement. I wasn’t briefed, and wouldn’t want to comment on, say, price/performance or feature particulars. That said: HP Neoview seems pretty dead. I haven’t heard a single favorable reference to HP Neoview [...]
Updated: 2011-01-15 06:28:04
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