Ever spend an afternoon spiraling down a wormhole? That’s how it feels sometimes for site reliability engineers and application performance managers as they try to figure out what went wrong....
Farmers respect the need for harnessing nature’s power strategically. Irrigation, sunlight, toil—all combine to nurture precious plants. For success at any scale, processes must be set, follo...
“Computer: How’s our cashflow looking?” Computer: Your near-term picture looks good, but next quarter could get ugly: Several major contracts are up for renewal, and all of those ...
Many companies talk the talk about diversity, equity and inclusion. But how many really walk the walk? Getting to the bottom of that question requires serious research, and this journalist can stat...
Incredibly unique opportunities only come so often. “Always be ready,” commanded Deion Sanders! The two-time Super Bowl champion knows whereof he speaks. We’re talking about the o...
Things don’t happen quickly until they do!” So spoke Jimmy Malone, a philosopher and friend who trained with the Dalai Lama’s right-hand man, many moons ago. (Johnny Cash once bai...
What does it take to be a world leader? Courage? Compassion? Vision? Integrity? All of the above is the honest answer. There’s also dedication, empathy, sacrifice, and lots of good, old-fashi...
“We are not gonna screw up Splunk!” Bam! Take it to the hoop, Jeetu! Oh yeah, Cisco’s EVP and GM of Security and Collaboration, Jeetu Patel, scored those two power-packed points w...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a futuristic concept into a critical component of modern technology, reshaping industries and driving innovation. Its potential applications ar...
“Things don’t happen quickly until they do!” So spoke Jimmy Malone, a philosopher and friend who trained with the Dalai Lama’s right-hand man, many moons ago. (Johnny Cash o...
Boom… Chicka-boom! Boom… Chicka-boom! Rocka-chicka, Rocka-chicka, Rocka-chicka… Boomi! Hey, Ho! That’s your beatbox intro for a recap article about business-is-booming Boomi...
Empty barrels make loud noises. This Vietnamese proverb speaks volumes about the importance of purpose. Those who lack it will cause discord, while those who cherish it will help create harmony. Wh...
‘The world is all that is the case.’ So wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his epic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus! He may have been considering the intricacies of Hybrid Cloud Analytics Sol...
Dear Bard, Please write an article describing your ideal Operating System, and explain why LLMs might well absorb the enterprise analytics space. Thanks!! … The Dreamweaver OS: Weaving Togeth...
Fortune favors the brave! When new vendors enter well established markets, they need a compelling value proposition. Can you do something 10x better than the competition? Or for one-tenth the cost?...
Nothing teaches like failure. When you drop the ball, let down a friend, fail to pay a bill on time, these are painful lessons in life. The idea is to learn from them, which requires both humility ...
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus The world keeps changing. Forces like technology, weather, competiti...
One of the wisest people I’ve ever met told me something quite compelling years ago: He said the secret to America’s success is our freedom! “You have freedom of speech,” he...
Author William Gibson famously observed, “The future is here already; it’s just not evenly distributed.” This statement rings especially true for GenAI. The “Chat” is ...
… Comes From Some Other Beginning’s End’ — Semisonic The Lord woks in mysterious ways! For a solid quarter century, I’ve longed to work with cool clients to envision, design...
— Chicago-Based Ocient Announces Extended Series B of $49.4 Million Change tends to occur in one of two fashions: Evolutionary, which brings incremental improvements over relatively long time perio...
Gateway to the cloud? Try, access point to AI! That’s the story from API kingmaker Kong, the cloud integration vendor with a storied history. The company just announced a suite of open-source...
Algolia leads charge for worldwide general-purpose knowledge discovery software Search is expanding, variegating and proliferating. Search still exists on the web – that core standard is unli...
Knowledge is power. That’s true for humans, but also for technology systems. The IoT craze we see throughout the business world speaks volumes about this. All those sensors provide valuable i...
by John Peluso | Chief Product Officer, AvePoint In 2022, global spending on cloud computing reached more than $350 billion, but as much as 30% of these investments could be wasteful. Many organiza...
Technology is dirty. Obviously not in the muck and grime kind of a sense, but IT has a ‘dirt factor’ that needs cleaning up in terms of its environmental impact. From our hardware unit’s operationa...
Appian has announced the release of the latest version of the Appian Platform for process automation. The new release introduces AI Skills Designer, a no-code way to build, train, and deploy custom...
This month has seen the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) host Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam. As part of the wider drive to get hold of more CNCF tooling, many developer...
Observability just happens. Spoiler alert not really needed, of course we all know that’s not true. Observability only happens when we take a concerted approach to implementing software toolsets t...
It’s been a busy week at Civo Navigate 2023. As (arguably) the first tech conference of the year (yes, okay, don’t write in, we all have calendars and we know when CES is), the gathering of Kuberne...
“We’re launching a new application management platform,” said the developer innovation lead… some people called him/her an advocate, some knew them as an evangelist, but those in the know just refe...
In the search for next-generation data technologies, we need to get down to the mall, the marketplace and the virtual trading zone to really understand how data is being exchanged across modern clo...
by TSG Cloud computing has been experiencing a boom for the last few years, with global spending on services reaching £46.3 billion in the first financial quarter of 2022, according to research fr...
As we know, New Relic is a cloud-based company that focuses on performance and availability monitoring. Its technology proposition is founded in the use of a standardized Apdex (application perform...
Come and use the cloud, they said. The first wave of cloud providers (remember Rackspace et al?) and the ensuing breed of hyperscaler Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) that we know as the ‘big three’...
Did we mention that we’re on an observability trip here at Inside Analysis? It’s a key trends that we need to follow, but why? Well, it’s because a) cloud is inherently virtualized, so the need to...
Water systems make a good analogy for understanding the world of data. Data lakes are enormous centralized repositories, while data streams flow freely at high speeds and high volumes. Data lakehou...
Would anyone or anything or any entity be bold enough to call themselves (or itself) an ‘all-in-one’ observability platform? One company would… and it’s New Relic. There’s always that thorny...
There are many steps to successful software delivery. There are many methodologies, many languages, toolkits, components, plug-ins, API use cases and there are many best practices. Without assuming...
Don’t call Dynatrace a cloud monitoring company, an observability business or a cloud management specialist, please. Dynatrace has been (and mostly still is) all that, but the Dynatrace of today is...
A book that focuses on data quality for data pipeline ETLs — data observability and data reliability too! O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2022-09-02, ISBN: 978-1-098-11204-2 Many books and tutori...
The artist formerly known as RapidAPI is now to be known as Rapid. It’s a telling evolution for any company brand to be drop the second part of its official moniker, especially when that part of th...
Think back for a moment. When was the first time you heard the term ‘dashboard’ applied to any device, commodity, product, service or thing outside of the automotive space? For software engineers f...
Britain’s Queen Victoria was well known for her voracious appetite (she liked smoked haddock washed down with a dram of Scotch whisky, apparently), her undying love for Prince Albert and her no-non...
Kubernetes is important. The cloud container orchestration technology has formed an all-pervading, arguably widely enduring and almost ubiquitous level of adoption and penetration across the modern...
Web 3.0 is coming. You may have heard rumors to that effect, but have you any idea what it is? If not, you should read on — its impact is likely to be dramatic. Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 You may think t...
Get your swimsuit on. If we drink the Kool-Aid at Current 2022 with Confluent (spoiler alert, we kind of have) then we will accept the stream-centric proposition put forward by company CEO and co-f...
Today we know that web search is Google, that’s not enterprise search. Over and above the casual user’s browsing of the web using the obviously world-renowned Google search engine (other search en...
“Reality Doesn’t Fit on Disk!” So claims Chris Sachs, the CTO of Swim, and co-host of SoftWare In Motion. Chris was discussing the important subject of data relevance with Kavanagh and Bloor ...
Relational.AI, a company you may not yet know about, is delivering something truly innovative and impressive to the IT world. To explain its importance, it may help if we quickly review the history...
Some enterprises are still limping along on legacy data warehouse architecture, partying like it’s 1989. They’re used to doing things a certain, specific way, to observing certain, specific customs...
By next year, Gartner Inc. projects that three quarters of all database deployments will have shifted to the cloud. Gartner’s report did not speak specifically to deployments of the data warehouse ...
If you want more, better, different analytic insights, you need more, better, different sources of data. This is especially true of data science and machine learning (ML) engineering. Rather than ...
What if managing change were as simple as manipulating different types of logical abstractions? In software engineering, this is the conceit behind model-driven software development. MDSD is not a...
Let’s agree not to squabble over the term “artificial intelligence” (AI). Let’s just go ahead and stipulate that what most people mean by AI is not artificial general intelligence, or AGI, bu...
Imagine a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform comparable in its way to Snowflake, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) data warehousing specialist. A PaaS designed with the pluses and min...
Sometimes, the very idea of sales force automation (SFA) can seem like a contradiction in terms. Thirty years into the SFA revolution, a stubborn remnant of the sales process is still human-labor-i...
It’s easy for an enterprise that uses cloud services to feel as if it has been transported back in time. Back to the early 1980s, to be exact, when the concept of a central, time-variant repository...
If you grok relational databases, and, specifically, if you grok the difference between an RDBMS’s conceptual, logical, and physical data models, you grok the basics of model-driven development, or...
Do you ever get confused by all of the new terms and trends in tech, especially in data and analytics? For example, when you hear a term like “reverse ETL,” do you automatically think: “Um, LTE? Is...
As far as predictive modeling is concerned, you can do too much or too little. Believe it or not, most people try to do too much! Kathleen L. D. Maley, vice president of analytics production with E...
Got Apache Pulsar? It’s an open-source cloud-native messaging and stream-processing platform. If this sounds suspiciously similar to one or more separate Apache projects – Kafka, for example – it s...
The data catalog products of today are completely different beasts Don’t think of the data catalog as “just” a technology, think of it as a lens: a panoramic aperture you can use to zoom in to get...
It’s about time to start treating it like one, anyway If you still approach data engineering as a disconnected series of one-off projects, you’re doing it wrong. Consciously or unconsciously, you’r...
Pity the modern sales manager: in a market teeming with software-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM solutions, she’s forced to make do with sales enablement and sales engagement services that have been design...
A guide for the perplexed As it evolves, the cloud data warehouse market will likely be shaped by some of the same forces that shaped both the market for early business intelligence (BI) tools and ...
Listen Here Today organizations are prioritizing customer experience and employee experience initiatives because they are the key drivers of business growth and opportunity in today’s experience-dr...
In an interview earlier this year with DM Radio, a weekly radio show that focuses on data management, Teradata senior vice-president of marketing Chris Twogood argued that it is difficult to predic...
The use of third-party or “alternative” data in analytics is not a new thing. There’s a sense, however, in which it is a newly feasible thing. Today, more alternative data than ever before is bein...
R.I.P. – the data warehouse. You had a good run, from your origins in the 1980s to your obsolescence in the second decade of the new millennium. Like all products of human ingenuity, you addressed ...
What can you do with sensor data? Real-time, event-driven process automation, you say? Sign me up! But what do you actually need to be able to do this on the tech side? This is the question a lot o...
Old-guard data warehousing stalwarts tend to react viscerally when the subject of the data lakehouse comes up. Watch them closely and you’ll see their brows knit sternly and their neck muscles begi...
To explain insanity, Albert Einstein used the example of a person who keeps making the same mistake over and over again – yet each time expects a different outcome. Implicit in this is the anti-str...
Confidentially, many chief data officers will admit that their companies suffer from what might euphemistically be called “data dyspepsia:” they produce and ingest so much data that the...
Time-series data is inherently statistical. Each of the individual records of a time-series is indexed to a specific point in time. The “series” is the behavior that these records, in t...
Sure, you trust your machine learning (ML) solutions, but do your customers? Do regulators? Courts of law? How does an ML-based solution inspire trust? Easy, says AI explainability (XAI) specialist...
I was honored to co-present “Intelligent Ingest for a Modern Data Architecture” on the Briefing Room last week with Matthew Halliday, EVP of Product for Incorta, and host Eric Kavanaugh. Companies ...
The use of alternative or third-party data in analytics is not a new thing. Thanks to a slew of technological, economic, and social transformations, however, it is a newly feasible thing. Today, m...
Imagine a business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform comparable in its way to Snowflake, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) data warehousing specialist. A PaaS designed with the pluses and min...
Computers run software that processes data. It sounds deceptively simple, but everyone knows it is not. You don’t need a Ph.D. in computer science to figure that out—a little bit of googling will g...
We live – and thrive – in an era of API-ification. We expose APIs willy-nilly for all sorts of purposes, not all of which are especially well thought out. Nor are we as forward-thinking as we shoul...
How does one transform an analytics practice to take advantage of radically new tools, practices, and techniques, such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineering? This wa...
With the industry on the cusp of what proponents describe as a revolution in real-time analytics, businesses must balance known risks against potential rewards as they assess the benefits of techno...
If you think about it, we should probably fetishize the role of data in relation to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineering – or, for that matter, analytics of any type. ...
Streaming: Easy as E-S-B? Twenty years ago, system or software architectures that were capable of supporting analytics in real-time against fresh data tended to be prohibitively expensive.[i] Today...
Too many vendors treat the term “cloud native” as little more than a marketing tool. Data warehousing specialist Yellowbrick Data is a notable exception to this trend. At the very least, Yellowbric...
Follow the money! That’s a foundational mantra for journalism. Want to know what the story is? Pay attention to who got paid, and for what. Similarly, in the business world, revenue streams d...
by Stephen Swoyer The premise of the data warehouse in the cloud is hard to resist. For one thing, it promises to reduce (or to eliminate) the costs associated with acquiring, operating, upgrading,...
Click Here to Listen! Who *doesn’t* use analytics these days? Practically every organization leverages some sort of analytical capability, whether through a traditional Business Intelligence ...
Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.22 @ 3ET Click Here to Listen, Distributed computing continues to reshape what’s possible in enterprise computing. Google’s Kubernetes stole a march on Docker a wh...
Click Here to Listen! The vision of Data Science cannot be accomplished in piecemeal fashion. You need a program to succeed. Ideally, you work from a platform that was designed for the express purp...
by Stephen Swoyer The premise of the data warehouse in the cloud is hard to resist. For one thing, it promises to reduce (or to eliminate) the costs associated with acquiring, operating, upgrading,...
by Robin Bloor There has always been a pressing need for BI. Even back in the day when all it delivered was reams of reports and a pie chart or two; people called it Decision Support. It was sensib...
Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.8 @ 3ET Click Here to Listen! Is privacy really dead? Some would say yes, but others argue the battle isn’t lost just yet! The big question is: How can you protect...
Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.1 @ 3ET Click Here to Listen! What’s the cornerstone of the Information Economy? Trust! And there’s a reason why the verb oft associated with that concept is “earned.” B...
My, how things have changed! Despite all those rumors of the data center’s demise, the innovation wheel keeps on turning. Many data center technologists are gearing up for their new role in a...
Click Here to Listen! It sounds so cool, and apparently, everyone’s doing it. But what, exactly, is data science? And how can your organization take advantage of this promising discipline? Ch...
Broadcast Date: Monday, Jan. 11 @ 3ET Click here to listen! Who are you, really? Are you authorized to be here, to take that action? Is this a machine, or a person? Knowing who’s who on the Interwe...
Broadcast Date: Monday, Dec. 14 @ 3ET Click here to listen! In today’s digital economy, companies are generating more data in a year than they did in all of the previous decade. Cloud co...
by Geoff Webb, Vice President Strategy at PROS She has a brain five times the size of yours, can make a noise so loud it would deafen a normal human, and she’s set to teach us all a lesson about ru...
Click Here to Listen! Buyers make the business world go ’round. They’re the ones who channel money this way and that, helping sellers survive or thrive, even in a market like today’s. But business-...
Meet us in DC! Save 10% with coupon code BLOOR10 DG Vision is the first of DATAVERSITY’s Data Governance conferences to be located in Washington, D.C. As with all of their educational programs, the...
Join us and save 10% with code BLOOR10 Don’t miss the opportunity to attend two events for the price of one! This fall, DATAVERSITY will be hosting two co-located educational conferences in Chicago...
Missed Oscon 2019?! We are ready to share the most important topics of the conference. Take a minute to listen to these informative and exciting quick interviews with representatives of the leading...