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…
Category: Shout-Outs
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…