Year: 2009

The MalStone Benchmark, TeraSort and Clouds For Data Intensive Computing

The TPC Benchmarks have played an important role in comparing databases and…

Editor SDC
9 Min Read

#11: Here’s a thought…

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData…

brianfarnan1
7 Min Read

Charlene Li: The Future of Social Networks

Charlene Li formerly of Forrester and author of Groundswell (with colleague Josh…

seiche
2 Min Read

Five Megatrends in Enterprise IT

Like Yogi Berra said: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the…

BobGourley
5 Min Read

The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 2) – Predictability

Introduction The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment…

TonyBain
9 Min Read

The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment Model

This is the first detailed post in a series I am doing…

TonyBain
6 Min Read

News, Search Experience, and Value

I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in…

Daniel Tunkelang
5 Min Read

Book. Is. Done.

I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend…

Daniel Tunkelang
3 Min Read

Apps for America2: Data.gov Visualization Challenge

While researching how people plan on using the new data at Data.gov,…

KarenLopez
2 Min Read

Neil Raden on sporting analogies and IBM System S – Intelligent Enterprise

I have featured Neil Raden’s thoughts quite a few times on this…