September 9, 2011 – 3:59 am
In March of last year I posted a blog here entitled: The Achilles Heel Of Cloud Computing – Data Integration. “In fact, what currently limits the number of cloud deployments is the lack of a clear understanding of data integration in the context of cloud computing. This is a rather easy problem to solve, but [...]
Data services, data services, data services. Do I sound like a broken record? Forgive me if I seem obsessed with the topic, but I truly believe that technology can change your enterprise, and allow IT to finally get a handle on data in the shortest amount of time. The real value lies in SOA data [...]
I was on the big data bandwagon before everyone began to jump on. The value is very clear. Simply put, it’s the ability to manage terabytes and terabytes of data as if it were just a small data set. Big data is possible. We take a divide-and-conquer approach to processing queries and other data operations. [...]
I was happy to do an architect-to-architect Webinar with David Lyle, which was more of an interactive conversation than a Webinar. The focus was on the ability to provide integration using data virtualization, but the message was perhaps more profound than that. The core issues that many enterprises face are that information is largely an [...]
Most of us who create data integration solutions and leverage data integration technology don’t think much about performance until it’s an issue. As with any technology solution, the fact that the solution works is one thing, and that it’s working well is another. Through the years I’ve dealt with many performance issues in the data [...]