CTOs: Keep your focus on security and functionality
Technologists of all sort have been closely tracking events associated with cyber security, and most have been watching the many…
Why Would I Ever Tweet?
I recently came across this great venn diagram describing the social networking community: Social Media: Unlocking the Awesome Potential of…
Death Of The Relational Database
A recent entry by Tony Bain in his excellent 'Innovations in Data Management' blog caught me a little by surprise.…
Business Rules are a failed abstraction – so what?
Syndicated from ebizQJeff Attwood had a great post over on Coding Horror – All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions in which…
Change Management: The What, Why, and How
What is Change Management?"Change management is a structured process and set of tools for leading the people side of change"(Prosci).Change…
Why are Personal and Organizational Changes Still Failing?
Have you ever heard the following saying?"Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast." This phrase speaks volumes about…
Relational Databases Get a Hard Time
Image via WikipediaThe NoSQL event has triggered a bit of a hard time for the RDBMS the last week. I…
Moving BI Into The Cloud Part 1
Over the last year I have been reading a lot about cloud computing and trying to predict how this can…
The Wild World of SIGMOD
I’m on my way home from SIGMOD 2009, my first experience attending a conference on databases. Actually, it was a…
Scientists have been plagued by Einstein’s theories which state…
Scientists have been plagued by Einstein’s theories which state nothing can travel faster than light. But over the past decade…