Sometimes you read something and you just want to get drunk with the person who wrote it and laugh into the deep night. This is one of those times. I just read the following on Linkedin: “Data, Adapt or Die!” The author’s refreshing style and especially the thrown-in Marx reference lifted my spirits on a … [Read more…]
So in 2006, apparently, a Tesco researcher and architect named Clive Humby first scratched out of the metaphorical soil the nugget that “Data is the New Oil,” and a kind of gold rush followed, with many a pundit repeating and elaborating upon the idea in the ensuing decade-plus debate, and even a load of contrarians … [Read more…]
So… This happened. https://digiday.com/media/google-fined-57m-french-regulator-breaching-gdpr/ No surprise, really. It takes a while for a Beast to discover the full extent of its superpowers and then to bring them to bear on Evil (guys, you said you wouldn’t be evil, what happened?). But now that several months have passed and at least companies that are paying attention … [Read more…]
So GDPR is one of the hottest trending terms in Google right now of interest to those of us doing things with data that might in any way touch on Europeans. Assuming, that is, that we intend to keep doing it after 25 May 2018. As with any regulatory initiative, there’s just no two ways about … [Read more…]
So it looks like Teradata is spinning out their work on Presto as an open source project into a new company, Starburst. I think this is for the best, as far as Presto adoption and growth goes — while Presto surely received a lot of investment at Teradata, that did it a lot of good, … [Read more…]
Some time back I had the pleasure of meeting some of the good folks at MapD. Among the topics we wound up talking about was Apache Arrow, an emerging in-memory columnar data representation with multiple language bindings which, to make a long story short, can let different analytics solutions pass data from one to another … [Read more…]
So this happened. Should be a more natural home for the products than Cisco. https://www.tibco.com/press-releases/2017/tibco-acquires-data-virtualization-business-cisco TIBCO Acquires Data Virtualization Business from Cisco Analytics Users to Benefit from Improved Data Agility, Enhanced Scalability, and Better Business Insights Palo Alto, Calif. , 05 October, 2017 – TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and … [Read more…]
So The Morning Paper gets my vote for cool resource of the month… dives into a computer science research paper each day– usually something new, sometimes looking backwards for background on one of their other papers. Always good to skim, sometimes to dive in if the subject is one you are engaged with. For example, right … [Read more…]
This blog isn’t going to be all-data virtualization, all the time, I promise– but I did want to give a shout-out to a good review of the origins of the product space of “data virtualization” as well as the term, from a true class act and industry veteran, Bob Eve, currently at Cisco (which acquired … [Read more…]
So I like to think I know the data virtualization space fairly well at this point. The competitive landscape for Data Virtualization was part of my beat for a couple of years at Cisco, and I paid attention to anything that could really be interpreted as a threat, which is to say anything from other … [Read more…]