I recently caught the 1968 movie The Odd Couple on TV. It starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and was based on Neil Simon’s 1965 Broadway play. The movie and subsequent TV series features a neat freak and neurotic, Felix Ungar rooming with his friend Oscar Madison, a messy sportswriter. As you may recall Felix [...]
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Thank you to Mike Vizard of CTOEdge for accepting my guest blog post Surfing the Big Data Retention Wave “Companies in many other industries face Big Data Retention imperatives, so when push comes to shove, you can analyze for show, but you need to comply for dough.” Please read the entire post at: http://www.ctoedge.com/content/surfing-big-data-retention-wave Tweet This [...] OLTP or Online Transaction Processing databases and OLAP or Online Analytics Processing tools and data warehouses are widely used in data management applications and IT infrastructures. But as George Crump of Storage Switzerland points out in his Information Week blog post “Keeping Data Forever vs. Data Retention” the decision of what data to keep and [...] According to the Wikipedia page on Weight Loss “Between $33 billion and $55 billion is spent annually on weight loss products and services, including medical procedures and pharmaceuticals, with weight loss centers garnering between 6 percent and 12 percent of total annual expenditure. About 70 percent of Americans’ dieting attempts are of a self-help nature. [...] Claudia Chandra, Product Manager of the Data Archive suite at Informatica wrote a nice piece today titled A Secure, Cost Effective Home for Your Retired Application Data. (Disclosure: Informatica is a major partner and investor in my current company RainStor) Here are some exerpts of her post (in italics) and how the specialized repository that Informatica uses [...] Today EMC Corporation announced an expansion of its EMC Atmos cloud partner ecosystem to help customers manage and optimize external clouds as part of an overall private cloud strategy. RainStor (my current company) participated in the early evaluation and feedback of the Atmos platform. Our close partnership with EMC has ensured that our ISV partners, who [...] Today’s the big day of the showdown. The Men’s Olympic ice-hockey finals! With the Canadian women triumphant over USA a few days ago and the USA men handing the Canadian team a big wake up call in the preliminaries, the anticipation of this game is reaching fever pitch. Evident are the numerous chants of Go Canada and U.S.A, [...] Previously I blogged about “Why Informatica–Siperian beats IBM–Initiate Systems, especially if you are an MDM buyer today” . Watching the numerous accolades coming from the #INFAanalyst tweetstream last week has shed further light on Informatica’s overall data management strategy and their commitment to the cloud. So while many have been focused on the two company Informatica-Siperian combination for MDM, [...] Pacman used to be my favorite game back in the 80’s. I could spend hours navigating the yellow chomper around eating up all of the pac-dots, avoiding the ghosts then timing it just right to grab the power-pellets and turning on the ghosts and chomping them up for maximum points. The recent announcement that IBM is acquiring [...] Speakers: Moderators: I attended the Churchill Club meeting featuring the “Annual Top 10 Tech Trends” as [...] |
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