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By Bill McColl
Today what's needed is smart IT systems that can automatically analyze, filter and push exactly the right data to users in realtime, just when they need it. Oh, and since no one wants to own data processing hardware and software any more, those IT systems should be in the cloud.
Jan. 14, 2010 09:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,452
By Bill McColl
Data is revolutionizing how we live and work, and it's growing exponentially everywhere. Faced with this information explosion, experienced programmers are now using parallel processing tools such as MapReduce/Hadoop, rather than SQL databases, to analyze large repositories of stored, ...
Jan. 11, 2010 10:45 PM EST  Reads: 1,150
By Bill McColl
As the need for realtime analytics grows we will continue to see a migration away from databases and towards more scalable parallel dataflow architectures for analytics. For twenty years, analytics has been viewed as just one specific area within the broader relational database industr...
Oct. 29, 2009 04:34 PM EDT  Reads: 1,587
By Bill McColl
What are enterprise users looking for from a cloud analytics solution? Realtime + Historical Data. In addition to analyzing (historical) data held in databases (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, MySQL) or datastores (Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce), a next-gen analytics solution needs to be ab...
Oct. 28, 2009 10:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,473
By Bill McColl
Business analytics is a major established sector of the IT industry, but it's one that's ripe for disruption. Cloud analytics is hot. Gartner's top two strategic technologies for the enterprise in 2010 are cloud computing and advanced analytics. Venture capitalist Ann Winblad, in a rec...
Oct. 28, 2009 09:30 PM EDT  Reads: 1,322
By Bill McColl
As massive historical data sets and torrential realtime data streams flow into public and private clouds around the planet, the intercloud becomes essential to support new applications and services that are able to run across these clouds.
Aug. 27, 2009 02:00 AM EDT  Reads: 1,149
By Bill McColl
For fifty years we've been moving data to where the computing power is. With intercloud computing, the world is going to look quite different, with the computing power moving to where the data is. The intercloud turns computing inside out. With traditional IT, we move the data to where...
Aug. 12, 2009 08:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,680
By Bill McColl
Twenty years ago, the work of Tim Berners-Lee gave birth to the WWW and ushered in the internet revolution. Now, in 2009, we stand on the threshold of another major disruption in computing, as computing begins to move to a worldwide network of clouds, the Intercloud.
Aug. 6, 2009 05:24 PM EDT  Reads: 1,185
By Bill McColl
A realtime data explosion is underway throughout business, finance, government, health, media, science, sensors and the web. Individuals and organizations that had only recently figured out how to cope with thousands or millions of events per day are now drowning in billions of realtim...
Aug. 5, 2009 06:46 PM EDT  Reads: 1,046
By Bill McColl
Within five years we will have dozens of public clouds and thousands of private clouds. The intercloud is now taking shape and will be the infrastructure on which the next generation of apps and services will be built. At Cloudscale we have been developing the first intercloud pl...
Aug. 4, 2009 02:45 PM EDT  Reads: 1,013
By John Cowan
Gartner released five criteria to determine whether the pile you’ve been sniffing is in fact what you think it is. In general, I think this type of shoehorn analysis is dangerous because it never really goes deep enough. They are invariably so nebulous that in some small way my hacker ...
Jul. 16, 2009 09:30 AM EDT  Reads: 1,652
By Bill McColl
This is an incredibly important time for the cloud computing area. What are some of the new directions in the massively parallel cloud computing space? I’ll mention four that I’m particularly interested in, that are exciting and challenging, and that I think will have a huge impact on ...
Apr. 15, 2009 08:00 PM EDT  Reads: 7,813