The Snowflake IPO21st September 2020Philip Howard Snowflake is going public. Is it worth what it thinks it is?
Ontotext makes life easier17th September 2020Philip Howard Ontotext is introducing SQL support to enable easier access to GraphDB, as well as visual migration support from relational databases.
Netezza Resurrection5th June 2020Philip Howard IBM have announced a new offering which provides an upgrade path for existing Netezza users who have not already migrated away from that platform.
TIBCO Now7th October 2019Philip Howard Bloor's Philip Howard looks back on TIBCO's recent European User Conference, where he feels their strategy is starting to become clearer.
Taking AI and HPC out of the Laboratory - Panasas show the power of automation and hardware abstraction to bring HPC and AI processing within the reach and capability of the Enterprise.30th August 2019Paul Bevan A combination of Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) and Solid-State Disk (SSD) is seen as the go-to configuration for AI training systems.
Hadoop: here today, gone tomorrow?15th July 2019Philip Howard MapR and Cloudera are in trouble: what does the future of Hadoop look like?
Cloudera and HortonWorks: what do I think?22nd October 2018Philip Howard Cloudera and HortonWorks are merging. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? For whom?
The data-driven enterprise25th January 2018Philip Howard GDPR extends the ideas behind the data-driven enterprise because it forces companies to treat private data as an enterprise-class resource.
Alteryx alert5th January 2018Philip Howard Alteryx had a huge data breach before Christmas: not good news for a software vendor who should know better.
Machine/deep learning: debunking the hype23rd October 2017Philip Howard Neither machine nor deep learning are as complicated as some sources might suggest