http://www.onstrategies.com/blog Insights on the world of Information Technology -- Views expressed here do not reflect the opinions of Ovum. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:40:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2012/01/31/emc%e2%80%99s-hadoop-strategy-cuts-to-the-chase/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2012/01/10/oracle-fills-another-gap-in-its-big-data-offering/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/11/20/who-owns-the-product-lifecycle/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/11/11/what-will-hadoop-be-when-it-grows-up/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/10/05/the-elegance-of-steve-jobs/ Tibco has been running on all cylinders of late. In earnings and revenues, it has kept up with the Joneses in the enterprise software neighborhood, running respectable 25% revenue and 30+% software license growth numbers in its most recent quarterly year over year results as we’ve noted in several of ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/10/02/tibco-the-best-surprise-is-no-surprise/ HP chose the occasion of its Q3 earnings call to drop the bomb. The company that under Mark Hurd’s watch focused on Converged Infrastructure, spending almost $7 billion to buy Palm, 3COM, and 3PAR, is now pulling a 180 in ditching both the PC and Palm hardware business, and making ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/08/19/hp-does-a-180-%e2%80%93-now-it%e2%80%99s-apotheker%e2%80%99s-company/ There’s been plenty of excellent commentary on Google’s $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI) over the past few days, and we’re certainly not going to rehash covered ground. Clearly this is a lot of money that was invested defensively. Money that could have gone into research or acquisitions that ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/08/17/google-and-motorola-quick-post-mortem/ It’s kind of ironic that Teradata, which actually invented the big data, data warehouse is being grilled about its big data strategy. Hold that thought. The crux of the first day of Teradata’s Third Party Influencers conference, a kind of Vegas summer camp for selected partners and analysts, was about how ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/08/04/from-big-to-bigger-data-first-thoughts-from-teradata-influencer-summit/ What a difference a year makes. A year ago, Big Data was an abstract concept left to the domain of a bunch of niche players and open source groups. Over the next 9 months, the Advanced SQL space dramatically consolidated as EMC, IBM, HP, and Teradata made their moves. In ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2011/06/06/hadoop-ecosystem-starts-crystallizing/