In my discussions about the assault of big data technologies on the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DW) markets, sometimes it is hard to identify specific use cases where a big data technology – like Hadoop – can help your BI environment.  Many of these big data use cases are really still being

A recent blog that I wrote, titled “The Coming BI Tsunami,” drew a quick response from my old friend Warren Thornthwaite.  Warren and I worked together back in the 1980’s at Metaphor Computer Systems, one of the first (if not the first) Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) company.  Warren has spent much of

Be There When Lightning Strikes! EMC is introducing Project Lightning—EMC’s new server Flash caching technology. Pat Gelsinger, President and COO of EMC Information Infrastructure Products, will introduce this game-changing new product and discuss EMC’s future plans for Flash on February 6th in San Francisco, CA. Getting At Your Information… One of the keys to Business

Happy New Year – a time for resolutions.  On January 5th the Sunday Review of the NY Times noted that a study by University of Scranton (PA) psychologists found that success of New Year’s resolutions dropped over time – something I think we all would expect: So, I would suggest that businesses make a resolution

On the 6th of February I have the honour of addressing the audience of the Gartner BI Summit in London. I’m going to introduce the ‘what’ era and propose that today’s data warehouse implementations leave a good deal to be desired. If we look at the current IT systems that companies have deployed today, be