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December 15, 2011
All the recent compliance headlines in the financial services sector, at least in the UK and Europe, have been around Solvency II, Basel III and...
December 13, 2011
I have just got back from the Netezza user conference and there was an interesting presentation on using IBM’s Information Server in conjunction with Netezza....
November 25, 2011
The latest entry into the BDDB (big data database) market is Hadapt, which has just announced the public beta (it has been in private beta...
November 18, 2011
Breakthrough applications are the flip side of big data. They don’t necessarily involve huge amounts of data but they do typically involve some of the...
October 10, 2011
There are loads of vendors that provide data replication for back-up and recovery purposes but there are not many that (also) target operational and business...
June 30, 2011
The market around Hadoop has historically been very gentlemanly. In most cases when open source products become popular you end up with multiple competing distributions....
June 30, 2011
Often when you see this sort of heading you expect to read something like “long live the EDW” later in the piece. Not this time....
June 16, 2011
Most companies exploring the use of big data for business intelligence purposes do not simply want to analyse unstructured data, they also want to combine...
June 16, 2011
CXAIR from Connexica (which was previously Ardentia Search) is a BI tool specifically designed to support queries that span both structured and unstructured data, though...
May 05, 2011
For the second year in a row I am on the judging panel for the best practice data governance award for the International Data Governance...
May 03, 2011
There is a lot of confusion around “big data”. People naturally assume that big data means lots of data. Which is true. But it isn’t...
April 21, 2011
Oracle is acquiring Datanomic. Rumours have been floating around about Datanomic being acquired for some weeks so it hardly comes as a surprise. Figures have...
April 20, 2011
As long time readers will know, I don’t hold any particular truck with benchmarks. They are too generic, too easily fiddled and lots of vendors...
April 18, 2011
With Infosec taking place this week my thoughts are naturally turning towards the security market in general and SIEM (security information and event management) in...
April 18, 2011
Those readers with an elephantine memory may recall that I have written about HVR (High Volume Replicator) from HVR Software (previously PSB) twice in the...
