A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]

The term “big data” has become very popular in some segments of industry to describe the massive deluge of information that is being produced everyday in many formats. Forrester defines big data as techniques and technologies that make it economical to deal with data at an extreme scale. Big data is about three things: 1. [...]

With the growing interest in the potential business value to be gleaned from “Big Data” or Extreme Information analytics, a new role has been gaining interest: the Data Scientist. The data scientist is a hybrid role encompassing computer science, advanced statistics/mathematics, forensics analytics and other advanced skills, as well as business savvy. The data scientist [...]

NoSQL became a buzz word in the last 12 months. Why? The short explanation is that there are a number of new databases which don’t depend entirely on SQL (which we can think of as Not Only SQL databases) and some which don’t depend on SQL at all (which we can think of as absolutely [...]

Calxeda has gotten a lot of coverage over the last few days about their strategic partnerships, and being within a year of generally available ARM-based servers (Austin American Statesman, Channel Register, GigaOm, MSP News). One of the partners they announced is the company that I work for, Pervasive Software, which makes Pervasive DataRush™, a revolutionary [...]