When recently pondering how balance data should be modeled, I was reminded of my favorite Star Trek episode, The Balance of Terror. Those sneaky Romulans had crossed the neutral zone and were destroying Federation outposts. Naturally, only the Enterprise was close enough to intervene. The Enterprise was faster than the Romulan ship and agile enough [...]
We have written a lot about data agility and efficiency in the Kalido blog. I recently provided the results of our ETL-based Data Warehouses survey, and Allen Johnson wrote about the recent report “Measuring the Half Life of Data” by Nucleus Research. This report explored the value of data and the rate at which that [...]
Another survey we ran in 2012 was conducted at a Big Data event we sponsored in London – Big Data Analytics 2012. This was a full day event that featured presentations from vendors and customers on their Big Data projects, or aspirations, as the case may be. While it was a relatively small show – [...]
During 2012 we have been surveying TDWI World Conference attendees about their data warehousing investments. We wanted to know their thoughts and experiences on a variety of topics, ranging from whether they felt like IT and “the business” are on the same page in terms of keeping the warehouse up to date with the latest [...]
Another article appeared last week in Forbes on the future of Big Data. No “v” words this time, but a much more practical discussion: how prepared is your IT organization to support big data? The article quoted a Gartner webcast poll that answered this question, with 54% responding that they don’t know yet what skills [...]
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