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This week has seen a significant announcement from Aster Data Systems, an upcoming data warehouse appliance (implemented as a software appliance on commodity hardware, website www.asterdata.com). Aster announced the implementation of the famed Google MapReduce framework into is architecture.
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In my opinion the most overlooked team in any project is the infrastructure team. This is very true of data warehouse initiatives. Most often the infrastructure team is taken for granted as the "in guys" who know how to put together machines, storage and databases. This kind of an assumed role and responsibility often leads to missed opportunities to communicate clearly and then there is a lot of rework or redesign etc.
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Whatever may be your technology and architecture, there are the layers of infrastructure that continue to worry us about the performance of your data warehouse and business intelligence solutions.
Broadly classifying the infrastructure, you have the hardware, network and storage. Though each individual layer has had commendable improvements, the holistic solution is still weak. How can we achieve the optimization across the network layers?
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A question that has been asked by many of the data warehouse community is, with the advent of near real time data integration into the data warehouse what is the "business value" for building an ODS. I would like to see your comments on this topic. A new article on the same subject us underway and will be published in the next month.
As you all read this post, you will be well aware of Microsoft acquiring DATAllegro this morning. Congratulations to the entire DATAllegro team for this achievement. This does point out an important message to the Data warehouse industry, Data Warehouse Appliances are here to stay. There are a lot of questions that will arise from this acquisition no doubt, but what intrigues me is now that Microsoft has made its move, we have Sun-Greenplum, Microsoft-DATAllegro, HP-Neoview, IBM-Balanced Configuration, Oracle-???.
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I'm currently on vacation in Bangalore, India. More than any other aspect, the rise of M-Commerce or mobile phone marketing is very interesting. While it is considered as spamming in many parts of the world including back home in the US, the mobile phone users here in India seem to like the inundation of marketing offers on their mobile phone. When I make or receive calls, based on my location (based on the switch data probably), my phone receives messages about the nearest malls offering sales or a nearby coffee shop offering specials or a new movie that might interest me etc.
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Good morning from sunny Phoenix, Arizona. The first independent analyst platform conference is well into day 3. Rick Van Der Lans the organizer has done an incredible job of getting 25 of the world's independent analysts and thought leaders and 18 plus vendors executives together for a series of presentations and discussions. Great atmosphere and discussions inspite of 114 plus degrees outside.
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A concept like none other, number crunching has always been thought of in scientific applications, real time applications and complex processing of large numeric calculations. With the rebirth of Data Mining and Predictive Analytics and the increasing adoption to Data Warehousing and Operational Data, number crunching will soon be common to the data practitioners, if not already.
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With the announcement from HP yesterday that read "Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) on Tuesday introduced a BladeSystem server configured for an Oracle data warehouse.
The BladeSystem for Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) Optimized Warehouse is a pre-configured appliance-like offering for the 1- to 4-TB market. The HP system provides the essential elements of a data warehouse infrastructure, including computing power, storage, interconnect, and management.", the data warehouse appliance gets mainstream attention.
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Wow, this sounds stupid right. how can someone not want a successful data warehouse program? Guess what, while it is unbelievable it is true that even without trying, this is the fact across organizations. What makes this happen? well it my favorite subject and talking point, organization politics.
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