Mar 15, 2012
A recent Reuters article spoke about SAP plans on becoming a major player in the database market. SAP is well known for its business management software, which it happens to be the largest manufacturer. Oracle is in second place behind SAP in that market. In July of 2010, SAP acquired Sybase, the worlds 4th largest [...]
Mar 5, 2012
IBM is the largest employer of mathematics Ph.D’s in the nation. They hire alot of mathematicians for help with analysis of big data. They develop proofs that take anywhere from 2 months to some times 2 years. The one for an US based oil company took 2 years and then allowed them to open up [...]
Feb 27, 2012
The article I read recently, written by Loraine Lawson where she talks about the recent hype surrounding Big Data and the starting trend. Many companies and organizations are considering using Big Data services for their systems but many don’t know where to start or the true capabilities and limitations of such a system. This is [...]
Feb 13, 2012
I read a recent article by Alan R. Earls about the upcoming SQL Server 2012 and the cool new features. The explosion of big data use throughout the organizations will be the driving force for updates in the new SQL Server. Cloud computing also will have a tremendous impact on the future of SQL Server. [...]
Feb 6, 2012
EMC has introduced a new high speed PCIe flash based storage device that is supposed to increase performance. The device sits in a PCIe slot and also attaches to other storage devices on the back end. This flash based storage will act as a high speed cache for servers allowing them to access mission critical [...]
Jan 30, 2012
The article went on at length discussing the various uses of data warehouses and how they should be designed physically so that they can complete all necessary tasks quickly and efficiently. There are 3 types of business intelligence that it went over and those included, operational BI, analytics, and management BI. It mentioned that there [...]
Jan 23, 2012
The article talked about data and how it is currently being used to provide real time answers. Businesses are using their available data to make decisions every day. One example includes how credit bearau’s use your credit history to assign you a current credit score. This score is for today and depending on the circumstances [...]
Jan 15, 2012
Loraine Lawson blogs about the importance of data modeling and the three things that data team’s wish their CIO, IT manager, or even business manager knew about data modeling. She writes that data modeling is very important and it’s different than application development. She points out that application development looks to solve a problem quickly, [...]
Jan 7, 2012
I read about a recent SQL Injection campaign that infected approximately 1 million web pages. Apparently, they manipulate the existing SQL query for malicious purposes. It appears that the majority of the infected web pages are from the Netherlands although there are some US domains as well. Mary Landesmann from Cisco says that the 1 [...]
