Building Trust In A Network Environment
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When it’s still best to use a relational DBMS
Updated: 2011-05-29 08:56:37There are plenty of viable alternatives to relational database management systems. For short-request processing, both document stores and fully object-oriented DBMS can make sense. Text search engines have an important role to play. E. F. “Ted” Codd himself once suggested that relational DBMS weren’t best for analytics.* Analysis of machine-generated log data doesn’t always have [...]Insurers' software buying remains sluggish, Celent report says
Updated: 2011-05-26 16:17:00-More-Slashdot venting thread about Oracle/Sun hardware
Updated: 2011-05-26 09:51:13Slashdot has what amounts to a venting thread about Oracle/Sun hardware. The one consistent favorable theme is that Sun hardware is good stuff if you want to run Oracle. Otherwise, comments repeatedly say: Product discounts are down, effectively creating a price increase. Service prices are way up for some customers, because cheaper service options have [...]Polaris Launches Cloud-Ready Platform for Insurance Sector
Updated: 2011-05-25 13:09:41Offers more than 70 business services to improve business agility, plus lower run and change costs.GIM Placements 2011: Avg salary rises by 24% to Rs 8.82 LPA
Updated: 2011-05-25 07:26:59GIM Placements 2011: Avg salary rises by 24% to Rs 8.82 LPAMBAUniverse.com... Religare, Johnson & Johnson Medical India, Vodafone, Accenture, Wipro Group, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting Group, Pidilite, Madura Fashion & Lifestyle, Tata Capital, Tata Motors, TATA AIG General Insurance, HP DSAS, Reserve Bank of India, ...Agents’ Use of Real-Time Upload Rises, Study Reveals
Updated: 2011-05-25 05:58:32The number of independent agents using real-time upload increased 16 percent from 2009 to 2001, says a new industry study. In IVANS’ 2009 Insurance Agents, Carriers & Technology Survey, only 36 percent of agents reported using real-time upload, but this number has …Expert: Old habits can undermine efforts to automate underwriting
Updated: 2011-05-24 18:38:15Insurers are similar to the Jetsons in that they often carry on with old-fashioned routines despite having the technology to -More-Unveils Enhanced Life Insurance Software Platform
Updated: 2011-05-24 16:25:40ACCENTURE : Unveils Enhanced Life Insurance Software Platform4-traders (press release)Among the latest enhancements to the Accenture Life Insurance Platform are: additional advanced administration and processing tools designed to help insurers operate more effectively in an increasingly global marketplace, accelerate product speed to ...and more »Quick thoughts on Oracle-on-Amazon
Updated: 2011-05-24 14:16:32Amazon has a page up for what it calls Amazon RDS for Oracle Database. You can rent Amazon instances suitable for running Oracle, and bring your own license (BYOL), or you can rent a “License Included” instance that includes Oracle Standard Edition One (a cheap version of Oracle that is limited to two sockets). My [...]Notes from the Fusion-io S-1 filing
Updated: 2011-05-24 09:53:23Fusion-io has filed for an initial public offering. With public offerings go S-1 filings which, along with 10-Ks, are the kinds of SEC filing that typically contain a few nuggets of business information. Notes from Fusion-io’s S-1 include: Fusion-io is growing very, very fast, doubling or better in revenue every 6 months. Fusion-io’s marketing message [...]Traditional databases will eventually wind up in RAM
Updated: 2011-05-23 17:05:24In January, 2010, I posited that it might be helpful to view data as being divided into three categories: Human/Tabular data –i.e., human-generated data that fits well into relational tables or arrays. Human/Nontabular data — i.e., all other data generated by humans. Machine-Generated data. I won’t now stand by every nuance in that post, which [...]Object-oriented database management systems (OODBMS)
Updated: 2011-05-21 11:45:49There seems to be a fair amount of confusion about object-oriented database management systems (OODBMS). Let’s start with a working definition: An object-oriented database management system (OODBMS, but sometimes just called “object database”) is a DBMS that stores data in a logical model that is closely aligned with an application program’s object model. Of course, [...]Starcounter high-speed memory-centric object-oriented DBMS, coming soon
Updated: 2011-05-18 11:14:11Since posting recently about Starcounter, I’ve had the chance to actually talk with the company (twice). Hence I know more than before. Starcounter: Has been around as a company since 2006. Has developed memory-centric object-oriented DBMS technology that has been OEMed by a few application software companies (especially in bricks-and-mortar retailing and in online advertising). [...]Terminology: poly-structured data, databases, and DBMS
Updated: 2011-05-17 14:16:06My recent argument that the common terms “unstructured data” and “semi-structured data” are misnomers, and that a word like “multi-” or “poly-structured”* would be better, seems to have been well-received. But which is it — “multi-” or “poly-”? *Everybody seems to like “poly-structured” better when it has a hyphen in it — including me. The [...]What to do about “unstructured data”
Updated: 2011-05-15 22:54:30We hear much these days about unstructured or semi-structured (as opposed to) structured data. Those are misnomers, however, for at least two reasons. First, it’s not really the data that people think is un-, semi-, or fully structured; it’s databases.* Relational databases are highly structured, but the data within them is unstructured — just lists [...]Alternatives for Hadoop/MapReduce data storage and management
Updated: 2011-05-14 06:00:52There’s been a flurry of announcements recently in the Hadoop world. Much of it has been concentrated on Hadoop data storage and management. This is understandable, since HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is quite a young (i.e. immature) system, with much strengthening and Bottleneck Whack-A-Mole remaining in its future. Known HDFS and Hadoop data storage [...]The Text Analytics Summit needs to be replaced
Updated: 2011-05-13 01:17:34I wasn’t asked to moderate a panel at the Text Analytics Summit because the guy running it — NOT Seth Grimes — didn’t feel “comfortable” with me doing so. (I wanted real discussion; Ezra evidently just wanted to buy off sponsors and partners with marketing-opportunity slots.) I also wasn’t given a press pass.* (Although uninterested [...]