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• Some Thoughts on Real-Time Data and Innovation
• 52 days ago
• First off, the news. Yes, I’m now working for Aberdeen Group. And a big shout out to my fellow analysts. J Now back to commentary.
  
  The latest edition of MIT’s Sloan Management Review has a couple of interesting articles, one on the effects of real-time data and one on IBM’s Innovation Jam. The one on real-time data (“The Downside of Real-Time Data”, Alden Hayashi, reviewing recent resea ...

• Data Virtualization in the Real World
• 132 days ago
• In a previous piece, I noted that data virtualization is (a) a logical extension of the idea of virtualization, (b) has definite benefits to IT and to the enterprise, and (c) is implementable but is not easy to implement. The basics, I noted, are an enterprise metadata repository and a “veneer” that makes multiple data sources look like one system. The end product is infrastructure software that m ...

• Data Virtualization: It Grows on You
• 154 days ago
• When I first heard the term “data virtualization” from Composite Software, I admit, I was skeptical. Let’s face it, virtualization is one of the all-inclusive marketing terms of our time; it seems like everything is being labeled as virtualized these days. But when I sat down and tried to make sense of all of the “virtual” technologies I knew, data virtualization fit in neatly. In fact, it’s a log ...

• Where are the EII Tools of Yesteryear?
• 164 days ago
• All in all, it seems bizarre to me to realize that the old “pure” EII (Enterprise Information Integration) vendors are no longer thick on the ground. It was only 6 years ago that I first discovered EII tools and issued my first report – an extremely short half-life for a technology. And yet, of the existing or nascent EII tools then, Metamatrix has gone to Red Hat, Avaki to Sybase, Venetica to IBM ...

• EDAs: What About SaaS?
• 200 days ago
• Over the last year and a half, I have been following with interest the rise of user and vendor interest in EDAs (event-driven architectures). My own take on EDAs: there’s some real value-add there.
  
  Now, from a database programmer’s point of view, business-event handling is older than dirt. The basics of events, triggers, business rules, and stored procedures were there in the 1970s if ...