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Originally founded in 1997 in Auckland, NZ as a data warehouse consulting company, WhereScape has evolved to become a solution provider and —especially in the last five years— a key player in the data management market and especially in the data warehousing and big data spaces. During a great session with the BBBT, WhereScape showed their “latest and greatest” news and innovations, triggering meaningful discussions and interactions with the analysts of the BBBT. Here, a summary and commentary of that cool session. WhereScape at a glance As mentioned before, during an evolution process that expands for more than 20 years, WhereScape became a solution provider of data infrastructure and automation solutions, it currently offers three main solutions: WhereScape 3D . A solution to assist in planning, modeling and designing data infrastructure projects as well as enabling rapid prototyping. WhereScape RED . A solution to enable fast-track development, deployment and operation ...

With a recent announcement Oracle, the global software and hardware powerhouse follows on its continuing effort to equipe all the solutions from its Cloud Platform with autonomous capabilities. As part of a venture that started early this year with the announcement of the first set of autonomous services —including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service — and the announcement of Oracle 18c to be Oracle’s first fully autonomous database— the company is now extending these capabilities with the launch of another set of services in the cloud. This time the turn is for three new services: Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud , O racle Autonomous Integration Cloud , and Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder Cloud which, according to Oracle, will be followed by the release of more autonomous services later through the year and which will be focused on mobile, chatbots, data integration, blockchain, security and management,  as well as more traditional database workloads includi...

As the need for gathering data continues, organizations keep dealing with increasing amounts of information that need to be stored, processed, and analyzed faster and better, stimulating the growth and evolution of the high performance computing (HPC) market. One key segment in this market the continues to grow, especially in recent years, is the high performance data analytics (HPDA) as organizations continue to adopt and evolve their big data and data lake initiatives, to the point that IDC forecasts that in 2018, the HPDA server market will reach $2.6 billion (23.5% CAGR) and the HPDA external storage market will add $1.6 billion (26.5% CAGR). Is not strange then, that software companies like IBM are keen to develop solutions capable to address the specific HPDA market segment, and IBM haws been working specifically on it with its Spectrum software line. IBM Evolves Spectrum to Keep the Pace with the HPDA Market Segment Late in November of last year, IBM announced a bra...

In what was probably the most important announcement made during 2017 ’s version of Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, the company announced the release of version 18c of its worldwide known database management system which includes two key features: to be a fully automated. Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison made the announcement of the autonomous database, which includes database and cyber-security automation because, according to Mr. Ellison, “human processes stink”. According to Oracle, the autonomous database will practically eliminate all human intervention associated with all database managing activities like tuning, patching, updating and maintenance by including major capabilities: Self-Driving: Provides continuous adaptive performance tuning based on machine learning. Automatically upgrades and patches itself while running. Automatically applies security updates while running to protect against cyber-attacks. Self-Scaling: Instantly resizes compute and stora...

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be invited to attend the 2017 influencer summit event in the beautiful venue chosen by Teradata in La Joya, California. Aside from the beautiful venue, a great event took place, one which was insightful, interesting and, well fun. A confirmation of Teradata’s evolution in both technical and b usiness sides and a confirmation that the IT and software industry have radically changed in the last couple of years. Since last year’s partners Conference and influencer events , Teradata keeps moving forward with its evolutive process to adapt to the new business and technical dynamics of the market. These year’s event allowed analysts, pundits and influencers alike to have a glimpse of what Teradata is doing to deliver value to customers and new customers. More Analytics, More Integration, More Scale... In its continuous effort Teradata is making sure its offerings are available in all shapes and forms, more precisely, in all major Cloud and o...

Logo courtesy of DOMO  , Inc. When you decide to show up at Domopalooza, Domo’s big user event, you don’t know for sure what you will find, but from the very beginning you can feel that you’ll have a unique experience. From the individual sessions and training, the partner summit and the concert line-up, to what might come from Domo’s CEO/rock-star Josh James, who certainly is one of a kind in the software industry; you know that you’ll witness a delightful event. This year under the strings of Styx’s, Mr. James kicked off an event that amalgamated business, entertainment, fun and work in a unique way —a very Domo way. With no more preambles, here is a summary of what happened during Domo’s 2017 DomoPalooza user conference. Josh James at DomoPalooza 2017 (Photo courtesy of DOMO) Key Announcements Before entering to the subjective domain of my opinion about Domo’s event and solutions, let’s take a minute to pin point some of the important announcements made previo...

As the “Internet of Things (IoT)” market becomes less hype and more reality, German software powerhouse SAP is aiming to move fast with important economical and research investments, aiming to become a leader in the IoT field. One key move is the recent announcement of SAP’s Leonardo Innovation Portfolio, a comprehensive solution offering to enable organizations plan, design and deploy IoT solutions. Of course, with these announcements we felt compelled to reach out to SAP and know from their own words, about the details of this SAP’s new IoT portfolio. As a result we had the opportunity to speak with Rakesh Gandhi, Vice President for IOT GTM & Solutions at SAP America. Rakesh is an innovation Enthusiast and IOT evangelist, he is currently responsible for SAP Leonardo portfolio for IoT innovation’ GTM and Solutions Management. A 12 year veteran at SAP, Rakesh has been involved in incubating new innovations of Mobile, Cloud for Customer, CEC and now IoT. Thank you Mr...

(Image Courtesy of Teradata) In a post about Teradata’s 2016 Partners event I wrote about the big effort Teradata is making to ensure its software offerings are now available both on-premises and in the Cloud, in variety of forms and shapes, making a big push to ensure Teradata’s availability, especially for hybrid cloud configurations. So, the data management and analytics software giant seems to be sticking to its promise by increasingly incorporating its flagship Teradata Database other solutions to the Cloud in the form of its own Manage Cloud for Americas and Europe , a private cloud-ready solution or via public cloud providers such as AWS and most recently announced on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace . To chat about this latest news and Teradata’s the overall strategy directed to the cloud we’ve sat with Teradata’s Brian Wood. Brian Wood is director of cloud marketing at Teradata. He is a results-oriented technology marketing executive with 15+ years of digital, l...

(Image courtesy of Thomas Skirde) As I mentioned in a first blog about the book, I'm now working hard to deliver a piece that will hopefully, serve as a practical guide for the implementation of a successful modern data management platform. I'll try to provide frequent updates and, perhaps, share some pains and gains about its development. For now, here's some additional information, including the general outline and the type of audience is intended for. I invite you to be part of the process and leave your comments, observations and encouragement quotes right below, or better yet, to consider: Participating in our  Data Management Platforms survey  to obtain a nice discount right off the bat) Pre-ordering the book, soon, I’ll provide you with details on how to pre-order your copy, but in the meantime, you can show your interest by signing up  to our pre-order list, or for Providing us with information about your own successful enterprise use case, which we ...