‘Internet of Things’ Bubble Inflates to Peak Levels Miko Matsumura, August 26, 2014 10 min read Recently, Gartner analysts declared the “Internet of Things” (or IoT) to be at the “Peak of Inflated...
Deflating the Hype Over In-Memory Databases Miko Matsumura, November 20, 2013 12 min read Moore's law has doubled transistor density on both RAM memory and processors since the beginning of industrial...
Do All Companies Really Need ‘Big Data’? Nick Kolakowski, October 8, 2013 3 min read Big Data: It’s a term with a whole lot of hype behind it. To hear some analysts tell it, every company larger...
Is Oracle Hiding its Data-Analytics Strategy? Nick Kolakowski, September 24, 2013 3 min read Oracle might be displaying more interest in data analytics, but the company’s playing its proverbial cards close...
Oracle Jumping Aboard In-Memory Bandwagon Nick Kolakowski, September 23, 2013 3 min read What, Ellison pick a fight with SAP? Never! Oracle has its sights on SAP’s in-memory business. Oracle CEO...
HP and SAP Alliance Over HANA a Matter of Pragmatism Nick Kolakowski, August 28, 2013 2 min read Hewlett-Packard and SAP aren’t direct competitors on the level of, say, Oracle and Salesforce—but with HP...
IBM’s BLU Acceleration Speeds Data Analytics Nick Kolakowski, June 26, 2013 3 min read In-memory technology: Big Data's race-car? IBM has added new technology to its DB2 database software, designed to...
SAP, Oracle Offerings Draw Battle Lines Over BI Nick Kolakowski, May 14, 2013 4 min read As usual, the cloud has something to do with it. It’s standard practice among IT firms to announce a new product...
SAP Rolling Out HANA Enterprise Cloud Service Nick Kolakowski, May 8, 2013 3 min read SAP’s future is getting a little cloudier. The company has announced SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service, which...
The Coming In-Memory Technology Battle Nick Kolakowski, April 9, 2013 3 min read For a couple quarters there, it looked as if SAP had its competitive differentiator in the Big Data arena:...