The rise of self-service analytics, in 3 charts – Old GigaOm
I’m trying really hard to write less about business intelligence and analytics software. We get it: Data is important to businesses, and the easier you can make it for people to analyze it, the more they’ll use your software to do it. What more is there to say? But every time I see Tableau Software’s earnings reports, I’m struck by the reality of how big a shift the business intelligence market is
Exclusive: Pivotal CEO says open source Hadoop tech is coming – Old GigaOm
Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff from EMC and VMware that launched in 2013, is preparing to blow up its big data business by open sourcing a whole lot of it. Rumors of changes began circulating in November, after CRN reported that Pivotal was in the process of laying off about 60 people, many of which worked on the big data products. The flames were stoked again on Friday by a report in Ventur
eBay open sources a big, fast SQL-on-Hadoop database – Old GigaOm
Online auction site eBay has open sourced a database technology called Kylin that the company says enables fast queries over even petabytes of data stored in Hadoop. eBay isn’t a big data user on par with companies like Google and Facebook, but it does run technologies such as Hadoop at a fairly large scale and Kylin seems a good example of the type of innovation it’s doing on top of them. eBay de
3 lessons in database design from the team behind Twitter’s Manhattan – Old GigaOm
In April, [company]Twitter[/company] announced that it had had enough of trying to bend existing [post_tag]database[/post_tag] technologies to its unique needs, inspiring the company to build its own database called [technology]Manhattan[/technology]. Last week, I spoke with the trio of Twitter engineers — Chris Goffinet, Peter Schuller and Boaz Avital — who built the database to get a higher-leve
5 predictions on the future of databases (from a guy who knows databases) – Old GigaOm
Michael Stonebraker is a lightning rod in the database world. He knows his stuff, having helped create some of the most-popular database systems around — Postgres, Ingres and Vertica. One of his most-recent endeavors (among many), VoltDB, is an in-memory OLTP (online transaction processing) system he claims is two orders of magnitude faster than legacy options. Yet, Stonebraker’s opinions througho
Arm yourself: The API wars are coming – Old GigaOm
There is a war coming soon. The arms merchants of the cloud and a new wave of developers armed with APIs are going to cause massive technology disruption. And APIs are the ammunition fueling this change. Antony Falco described recently how developers, armed with APIs, will radically change enterprise IT. Everything from banking systems to payment platforms, from airline systems to e-commerce platf
Amazon Web Services: should you stay or should you go? – Old GigaOm
Amazon(s amzn) Web Services is the default, go-to IT infrastructure of choice for startups, right? Right. Er, well not always. No one disputes that AWS provides an impressive and ever-growing array of compute, storage and networking resources. Update: it just launched AWS Activate, a program to help startups build and run scalable AWS implementations, for example. Most nascent startups would be nu
IBM throws its weight behind MongoDB for mobile apps – Old GigaOm
IBM(S IBM) helped propel SQL, Linux and Java into the mainstream, and now it’s looking to do the same for MongoDB. The company said it’s working with MongoDB creator 10gen on a new standard that will let mobile apps built atop the NoSQL database connect with data stored in business-critical systems. At its core, the new standard — which encompasses the MongoDB API, data representation (BSON), quer
Top 5 lessons learned at OpenStack Summit – Old GigaOm
There was a lot going on at the OpenStack Summit, where a couple thousand of the open-source cloud faithful gathered this week. Here are my main takeaways. 1: Customer-to-vendor ratio is getting better. But just a bit. Tuesday’s keynotes featured real, live OpenStack users Bloomberg, Comcast(s cmcsa), HubSpot and Best Buy(s bby). Not bad. Bloomberg’s Pravir Chandra said his team set some high goal
Facebook kisses DRAM goodbye, builds memcached for flash – Old GigaOm
Q: What do you get when you mix Facebook’s (s fb) extensive memcached usage with its strategy of “cold storage” for infrequently accessed data? A: McDipper, a Facebook-built implementation of the popular memcached key-value store designed to run on flash memory rather than pricier DRAM. Memcached, for the unfamiliar, is an open-source key-value store that caches frequently accessed data in memory
Cloud databases 101: Who builds ’em and what they do – Old GigaOm
Remember when there were just two or three cloud computing platforms to choose from, and just about as many cloud databases? Well, as clouds have proliferated, so have the database services built on top of them. In fact, it’s getting hard to keep up with what’s actually available. Here’s a primer highlighting the available services (note, we’re talking managed database services, not database insta
How OMGPOP scaled to 36 million users in three weeks – Old GigaOm
OMGPOP can thank the cloud for its acquisition by Zynga (s znga) on Wednesday. The gaming startup, whose Draw Something iPhone (s aapl) app used cloud computing and a NoSQL database to scale from zero (relatively speaking) to more than 35 million downloads in three weeks and never miss a beat. I had a brief call on Thursday with Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold, whose company worked with OMGPOP to sca
Has OpenStack finally won over IBM? – Old GigaOm
Updated: Since it launched two years ago, the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack has won over an impressive array of tech backers, including Dell(s dell), Hewlett-Packard(s hpq) and Citrix(s ctsx). But not IBM. That is about to change, according to this OpenStack contributor page, which lists IBM as a participant as of February 2. There has been no announcement, but Krishnan Subramania
eBay deploys 100TB of flash storage – Old GigaOm
Today is a big day for flash-storage startup Nimbus Data Systems: It’s rolling out its second-generation platform, and it gets to announce online auction giant eBay (s ebay) as a major customer. In fact, eBay has deployed a non-trivial 100TB of Nimbus gear. Have we finally reached the inflection point for primary flash storage? Traditionally, flash has been used as a cache layer either within stor
How Facebook moved 30 petabytes of Hadoop data – Old GigaOm
For anyone who didn’t know, Facebook is a huge Hadoop user, and it does some very cool things to stretch the open source big-data platform to meet Facebook’s unique needs. Today, it shared the latest of those innovations — moving its whopping 30-petabyte cluster from one data center to another. Facebook’s Paul Yang detailed the process on the Facebook Engineering page. The move was necessary becau
What makes DotCloud so hot? – Old GigaOm
Now is a great time to be a software developer. Programmers can choose from a wide variety of open source languages, databases and frameworks when building applications, and there are lots of solid cloud-based hosting options available to run them on. But that same level of choice makes it pretty difficult to be an IT manager. A system administrator’s job is to make sure all the elements of an app
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