To date, Big Storage has been locked out of Big Data. It?s been all about direct attached storage for several reasons. First, Advanced SQL players have typically optimized architectures from data structure (using columnar), unique compression algorithms, and liberal usage of caching to juice response over hundreds of terabytes. For the NoSQL side, it?s been [...]
When we last left Oracle?s Big Data plans, there was definitely a missing piece. Oracle?s Big Data Appliance as initially disclosed at last fall?s OpenWorld was a vague plan that appeared to be positioned primarily as an appliance that would accompany and feed data to Exadata. Oracle did specify some utilities, such as an enterprise [...]
Turn on the ignition of your car, back out of the parking space and go into drive. As you engaged the transmission, gently tapped the accelerator and stepped on the brake, you didn?t directly interact with the powertrain. Instead, your actions were detected by sensors and executed by actuators on electronics control units that then [...]
Hadoop World was sold out and it seemed like ?For Hire? signs were all over the place ?- or at least that’s what it said on the slides at the end of many of the presentations. “We’re hiring, and we’re paying 10% more than the other guys,? declared a member of the office of the [...]
Outside of politicians there are few individuals that have truly changed the way we live. It?s more than coincidental that Steve Jobs named his company after the record company of The Beatles, the group of four individuals who changed the musical tastes of our generation.
Steve jobs? life was obviously too short, but in that short [...]
