So… This happened. Google fined $57m by French regulator for 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…
Author: DataRacketeer
Ten years in the rackets now, wondering how it took me so long to find my way here.
GDPR: There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way (and a Really Wrong Way)…
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 it– you have to figure…
Presto Starbursts to the Enterprise
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, surely it couldn’t pursue its…
Apache Arrow: MapD adopts portable, standard in-memory analytics data format from Dremio
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 by reference, rather than by…
Cisco Data Virtualization –> Tibco Data Virtualization
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 analytics, today announced it has…
The Morning Paper: Keeping up with Computer Science Research
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 now here’s articles that are…
Origins of Data Virtualization: Composite Software Veteran Gives First-Hand Account
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 pioneer Composite Software back in…
IBM Fluid Query: Data Virtualization? Not Exactly.
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 vendors that we actually saw…
Data is The New Racket
So… after months of staring at various blank pages, thinking about some magnum opus on data management and data virtualization, I get tired of stalling, and begin. Specifically, I’ll begin with a definition, lifted from OxfordDictionaries.com: racket2 ,,,2 (informal) An illegal or dishonest scheme for obtaining money. let’s not dwell too much on this one 😉 2.1 A person’s line of…