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Cloud Data Management: SnowFlake: A Relational Database Built for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

In a world where Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HPCC and SAP HANA dominate the attention among most of the data analytics crowd, it’s almost an anomaly to hear anything about new relational database technology.  But today is different.  Today…

Cloud Security: Businesses Worry about Putting Data in the Cloud, but they Worry about On-Premise Data Too

By Dick Weisinger

Putting an app in the cloud increases the likelihood of having a data breach.   Using cloud-based apps may increase the economic fallout from a data breach by more than a factor of three.  Those are two of the results from…

PLM: Strong Growth in Collaborative Product Definition Management

By Dick Weisinger

The Global PLM Market in Discrete Industries market reached $20.45 billion and is expected to reach $27.78 billion by 2017, as forecast by research company Frost & Sullivan.  Within PLM, the collaborative product definition management (cPDM) sector is expected to see…

Big Data/Dremel/Metanautix: Applying Interactive SQL-Based Data Analytics to Massive Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Dremel is a big-data analytics tool developed by Google that lets analysts interactively explore data using standard SQL.  While Dremel has already been used at Google for eight years in production and while it’s been four years since Google first described…

Big Data: Real-Time Stream Processing with DataTorrent

By Dick Weisinger

Traditional computing techniques are challenged when it comes to handling large volumes of real-time data.  Stream processing is an evolving programming paradigm that attempts to take on the challenge of processing large real-time data.  While Hadoop is one technology that’s…