Our director of engineering told me that she had a customer ask if we could do real-time data processing with Syncsort DMX-h. Knowing that real-time means different things…
A few months back, I was presenting with a friend at a Chief Data Officer summit in Dallas, and my co-presenter put up a slide that said,…
A couple of months ago, I found myself without a full time gig for the first time in decades, and I did a little freelance blogging. Being…
In Hadoop’s ecosystem of massively parallel cluster computing frameworks, Actian DataFlow is an anomaly. It’s a powerful little engine that thinks it can take on any data…
I just got back from a little executive summit conference in Dallas for Chief Data Officers. Frustratingly, I heard a lot of folks telling me what Hadoop…
In an article written last year by an industry analyst that I respect, IDC’s Carl Olofson, he gave the impression that in-memory analytics are the wave of the future, the…
In the age of businesses with data that lives on dozens or even hundreds of servers, expecting transactional integrity and data consistency and currency are old-fashioned notions.…
Kathryn Kelly recently put up an excellent post titled Data Scientists Not Required: Big Data Is About Business Users. I commented on it, but my comment ended up…
Predictive analytics is a method to study the past and, using a combination of sophisticated math and creative visual communication, predict the future. Predictive analytics is a…
I had a long conversation with James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions the other day. One of the things that he talked about struck me as a…
