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Sector Roadmap: Hadoop/Data Warehouse Interoperability
With virtually every Hadoop distribution vendor offering SQL-on-Hadoop solutions, the key factor in the market is now the integration between Hadoop and data warehouse technology.…
Read MoreOracle’s cloud cred part 2: JSON support as “table” stakes
Oracle is helping customers carry their database technology investments to the cloud, step by step, as I reviewed in my last post.…
Read MoreOracle’s database technology is getting cloud-friendly
Oracle's public cloud aside, its flagship database is getting very cloud-friendly, even if Oracle doesn't much credit for it.…
Read MoreBringing in-memory transaction processing to the masses: an analysis of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 in-memory OLTP
For IT decision-makers and architects, there is enough inexpensive memory capacity on mainstream servers for SQL DBMSs to be optimized around the speed of in-memory data rather than the performance constraints of disk-based data. This new emphasis enables a new DBMS architecture.…
Read MoreWhat to know when choosing database as a service
IT decision makers today must manage data of varying volumes, velocity, and variety from one end of the enterprise to the other. For now at least, that requires several types of databases, and understanding exactly how each works.…
Read MoreHow to manage big data without breaking the bank
In the tsunami of experimentation, investment, and deployment of systems that analyze big data, vendors have seemingly been trying approaches at two extremes—either embracing the Hadoop ecosystem or building increasingly sophisticated query capabilities into database management system (DBMS) engines.For some use cases, there appears to be room for a third approach that lies between the extremes and borrows from the best of each.…
Read MoreReal-time query for Hadoop democratizes access to big data analytics
The delivery of real-time query makes Hadoop accessible to more users. Its significance goes well beyond delivering a database management system kind of query engine that other products have had for decades. Rather, Hadoop as a platform now supports a whole new paradigm of analytics.…
Read MoreA guide to big data workload-management challenges
Traditional applications had a common platform that captured business transactions. The software pipeline extracted, cleansed and loaded the information into a data warehouse. The data warehouse reorganized the data primarily to answer questions that were known in advance. Tying the answers back into better decisions in the form of transactions was mostly an offline, human activity.…
Read MoreMeet the analyst (video edition): George Gilbert
Each week, GigaOM Pro chats with one of its analysts to find out which technologies they read about, write about and can’t live without. This week, we speak with George Gilbert.…
Read MoreReport: Evolution of The Private Cloud
Every 15 years or so, the IT world undergoes a tectonic shift. Technological forces collide and grind against one another, creating an upheaval that leaves the landscape irrevocably changed. The latest such shift is currently underway: the transition to computing as a service, also known as cloud computing. This change promises to make computing more like a utility such as electricity or telephony — users plug in and get the resources they need without much manual effort on the part of service providers. Cloud computing has brought these benefits to Internet titans like Google, Salesforce.com and Amazon, and to their customers. Traditional enterprise IT has long aspired to the same advantages, but with a crucial distinction. Businesses want the option of greater control over governance, security and management that comes with using their own infrastructure. This report looks at the future for hardware and software in enterprise adoption of cloud-like systems, or "private clouds," as well as the role that major players are likely to take in its ongoing development.…
Read MoreWhat VMware’s SpringSource Acquisition Means for Microsoft
On Aug. 10, 2009, VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held open source Java application framework and platform developer SpringSource for $420 million ($331 million in cash, $31 million in equity for vested options, $58 million for unvested stocks/options). Customers will ultimately care about VMware’s acquisition of SpringSource because together the two will be able to offer a tightly integrated enterprise and cloud application platform similar to Microsoft’s server products, including the .NET application frameworks, Windows Server application runtime platform, and Systems Center management product offerings. The tight integration that VMware, Microsoft, and ultimately IBM and Oracle, aspire to offer — with slightly different approaches — is critical for bringing down dramatically the TCO of enterprise and cloud applications built on these platforms. This note examines the acquisition and its impact on a brewing battle between Microsoft and VMware.…
Read MoreWill Storage Go the Way of The Server?
The storage industry is on the cusp of the biggest structural change since networked storage began to substitute for direct-attached storage a decade ago. Despite being one of the fastest growing technology sectors in terms of capacity, the economics for many participants are deteriorating. Several major technology shifts will radically redefine the economics of the industry leading to slimmer margins for all but the most innovative, software-driven players. In essence, the future of storage is about storage software that increasingly absorbs intelligence that used to be hard-wired in a proprietary storage controller and array, which in turn is increasingly becoming an abundant pool of commodity disks. It is the pace of this transition that is at issue. In this report, we show how the different customer segments and associated workloads will evolve at different paces, and examine the associated opportunities for both incumbents and new market entrants.…
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