Big Data is an ever-present headline in today’s news, and businesses will continue to generate even more data. This may seem like business as usual, but it’s more than just a minor annoyance for IT. The database market seems to always be in flux, and though the old guard of relational databases...
Have you ever looked up at the sky on a clear, starry night? Looking at all those specs of light billions of light years away? There are actually more existing pieces of digital information than stars in the universe.
The statistics on big data and its rapid accumulation are staggering (see...
A few weeks back a colleague and I were driving through Seattle, and we began to debate the reach of ODBC as a key data standard. His perspective was that ODBC was really a C/C++ technology, and that as people have largely moved to other programming languages, the importance of ODBC has declined as...
An interesting read from Reuters last week has me thinking about how critical it is for businesses to take advantage of customer data. James Kelleher reported that Caterpillar, an...