I read an article yesterday by R “Ray” Wang on his Software Insiders Point of View blog: Research Report: How The Five Pillars Of Consumer Tech Influence Enterprise Innovation, and while it’s an excellent article, and makes some good points, I took exception to the first line: Most Enterprise Software Vendors Fail To Deliver Innovation.  Hey, wait a minute.  [...]

The Pervasive DataRush folks are in the news again, blowing away yet another data crunching speed record by an order of magnitude, this time on an SGI server with a standard Healthcare data analysis algorithm. This is seriously game-changing innovation. DataRush makes it easy for any Java programmer to make applications that scale! So what?

Lorraine Lawson noticed a large number of articles and discussions on various strategies for building metadata management solutions popping up in the blogosphere, and asked the question, “Why the Big Push for Do-It-Yourself Metadata?”   That struck me as a darn good question.  And I’d like to take a shot at answering it.  I believe that metadata [...]

Why should we care about Parallel Programming? – “This year, for example, you can buy yourself a fairly cheap server with 32 cores or even 48 cores. But can you use the cores? Unless you are running parallel software, the answer is going to be; “err, a little, maybe.””

The only 2 good strategies on the market to deal with this are … http://bit.ly/9prrcc

Ron Powell from Beye Network talks about business analytics challenges, the difficulty of dealing with 60% data growth per year, and the importance of dealing with massive data volumes from an MPP perspective, and how Pervasive DataRush fits in.