Dan Woods
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Oracle's Newest Audit Tactic: Focusing on Java
Oracle's software license auditing practices are a cause for concern among its customers. How will that approach change when Oracle starts auditing the use of Java? → Read More
What Is a Startup? Looker's Frank Bien on Scaling Startup Culture
Is Looker still a startup given $103 million in Series E funding? Yes if it keeps a startup culture focused on employees and customers and embodied in the phrase, Love Looker Love. → Read More
Fighting Diabetes With Graph Analytics
The diabetes research institutes Dr. Jarasch works with have 50 different databases in different locations. Additionally, there are hundreds of thousands of Excel workbooks, thousands of questionnaires, and 30 additional databases to manage biological samples. Connecting all that data is powerful. → Read More
Will GQL Be The SQL Of Graphs?
With the rapid rise of graph technology, it's time for a standard language for querying graphs. That work is already underway. → Read More
Taming The Wild West Of AI: 4 Requirements For Success
AI initiatives are too often speculative, and their return is uncertain. Jeff Erhardt shares four clear strategies for driving business value from AI. → Read More
Is It Time For A Technology Haircut?: The Lasting Value Of Pruning Your IT Landscape
What doesn’t make sense? Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon all prune their massive technology portfolios more than you do. Here are the benefits you can expect if you do IT pruning right. → Read More
Why It Is Always Time To Rebalance Your Cybersecurity Portfolio
Your security portfolio can’t be static. Threats don’t stay the same, and neither can your security. There’s no such thing as a turnkey solution for security -- adaptability is key, as is constant reassessment of your strategy as threats, and even your business assets evolve. → Read More
Data Fusion, Data Privacy: What We Can Learn From Walmart's Flexible Data Architecture
Georgi Gospodinov, one of Walmart's lead data scientists, explains why you can’t have complete data fusion without the right data architecture, and why building in privacy is key to success. → Read More
How To Design Your Cybersecurity Portfolio
This is the second article in a series on building the right cybersecurity profile for your business that explains step three: Design Your Portfolio. → Read More
Why A/B Testers Have The Best Jobs In Tech
While preparing for the panel I am moderating on "A/B Testing Secrets Revealed: Uber, Etsy, & Intuit” this Sunday 3/12 at SXSW, it became clear to me that the people on the panel from Intuit, Uber, and Etsy had jobs that were central to the success of their companies. Are these the best jobs in tech? Hell, yes! Learning about what these people do made it clear that when you are deeply… → Read More
Does Oracle's AWS Pricing Increase Make Strategic Sense?
It is not at all clear that Oracle is going to benefit in any significant way from making it more expensive to run on other clouds. Here's a look at why Oracle may have done this and the likely impact. → Read More
Teradata's Quest To Become The Perfect Cloud Data Warehouse
A survey of what Teradata is doing to make the same database software run on-premise and in the cloud. → Read More
New Year's Resolutions To Avoid Amazon Web Services Pitfalls
Based on conversations with my CTO pals, here are some pitfalls to watch out for when moving infrastructure and applications to Amazon Web Services. → Read More
How To Put Your Digital Twin On Steroids
The concept of the digital twin contains a trap. When we think of a twin, we think of a copy of an individual. In the digital world, we often think of a copy of an individual device – a physical replica of conveyor belt or radar. The trap is that we limit the scope of twindom and think too small. → Read More
The Trillium Acquisition: Syncsort's Bet That Data Quality And Integration Should Be Tightly Coupled
“I think it will be game-changing for folks to have those industrial strength capabilities that their existing staff can use to both bring data into the environment, transform it, and improve the quality,” said Josh Rogers CEO of Syncsort. → Read More
Can Teradata's Productized Analytics Strategy Speed Adoption Of Analytics?
Under its new CEO, Victor Lund, Teradata is focusing more on solving business problems. Productized analytics are the key to making this new model work. This article will take a look at what productized analytics Teradata is bringing to market, how they work, and what impact they promise. → Read More
What Kind Of Cloud Data Warehouse Do You Want?
My article in August about "What the Data Warehouse Should Become In the Cloud?” led to discussions with several players in the market that ended up improving the framework and raising more important questions. Here’s what I learned. In that article I outlined the following goals for a Cloud Data Warehouse: [...] → Read More
Can Commvault's Software-Defined Data Services Disrupt the Storage Market?
Building on the trend toward Software-Defined everything, Bob Hammer, CEO of Commvault, is promoting a vision of Software-Defined Data Services that may ultimately disrupt one of the most stable areas of enterprise computing, persistent storage. While this sounds like just another acronym, if you dig in a bit, what Hammer is proposing is a new way for companies to organize their information, one… → Read More
Why Siri, Alexa And Cortana Will Destroy SEO
The big shift for publishers and information providers will be the that the market will no longer only need unstructured information but also structured information and semantics graphs built out of them. → Read More
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