Grateful Dead
Since It Costs A Lot to Win, and Even More to Lose [1] It's hard for a DNA-level marketer and inveterate deadhead [2] to review a book that fuses both. While I first read Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead not long after its publication in 2010, I&
Cloud
Please join us for tomorrow's SaaS Product Power Breakfast, Thursday 6/24 at 8am Pacific. Our guest is veteran technology executive Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, makers of the open-source, time-series database InfluxDB. Our theme for tomorrow's episode is how to manage the transition from
Databases
It took me a week or so to get to it, but in this post I’ll take a dive into the Hortonworks S-1 filing in support of a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of their stock. While Hadoop and big data are unarguably huge trends driving the industry and
Databases
Two weeks ago MongoDB, formerly known as 10gen, announced a massive $150M funding round said to be the largest in the history of databases lead by Fidelity, Altimeter, and Salesforce.com with participation from existing investors Intel, NEA, Red Hat, and Sequoia. This brings the total capital raised by MongoDB
Open Source
I had breakfast the other day with Mike Olson, CEO of Hadoop ecosystem leader, Cloudera. We met because we run in similar circles in data management land and because Mike had some quibbles with my post, The Open Source Software Paradox. My premise was that open source presents a fundamental
Open Source
As a marketer, I'm a fan of open source software. After all, if you can't dislodge Microsoft from mid-range server operating systems, Microsoft Office from desktop productivity suites, or Oracle from relational databases -- and doing so through traditional means is a virtual impossibility -- then
Open Source
The other day I noticed a taxonomy used on one of the NoSQL Database blogs that went like this: Types of NoSQL systems * Core NoSQL Systems * Wide column stores * Document stores * Key-value / tuple stores * Eventually consistent key-value stores * Graph databases * Soft NoSQL Systems (not the original intention ...) * Object databases * Grid
Databases
Dear CIO, What’s wrong this picture? * At 50%+, Oracle’s operating margins have never been higher * The differentiation of Oracle’s database technology, however, has never been lower and the number of both core and specialized alternatives has never been greater. So what’s going on? You, kind Sir