Index Data Page Layouts and Index Compression 15 Jun 2011 at 7:31am One of my favorite blog entries was the one about the relational data page.In that entry, I talked about how so much of the data allocated to a database is formatted.Some people agreed but poin...
Applying different standards to cloud data warehouses 26 May 2011 at 9:50am Increasingly data warehouse components as well as many operational systems are moving to the cloud.By the cloud, I mean systems that conform to the NIST definition of on-demand with self-service,...
Break Free Tour: Build Your Information Strategy 25 May 2011 at 12:30pm Due to increasing data volume and data's high utility, there has been an explosion of capabilities in the possibilities in the past few years brought into the early mainstream. While stalwarts of o...
Netezza: Pioneer Appliance for Large Data Management 8 May 2011 at 6:02pm Discovery Days kicked off last week in Indianapolis and part of the focus was on Netezza.I gave a talk on the origins of appliances, based in part on the linear progression from uniprocessing to ...
Dallas-based Open Source Columnar vendor Calpont latest release 6 May 2011 at 7:35am
Open Source.Check.Columnar.Check.Dallas' answer to a couple of others checking these boxes out there is InfiniDB from Calpont.I had a chance to catch up with them this week as they ann...
Indianapolis, St. Louis, Phoenix, New York: Come out to Discovery Days 19 Apr 2011 at 12:54pm I'm about to keynote a fun series of talks with IBM called Discovery Days.We'll be covering topics around optimizing systems for speed, efficiency and analytics.If you're in any of the below na...
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