Business Intelligence on Ulitzer
I wanted to spend a little time sharing some good news with you. I am going
to be Technical Evangelist for a relatively new company called GoodData. As
evangelism means "bringing the Good News" to the world, this is truly a match
made in Heaven for yours truly, as I will now be bringing the GoodData news
to the world.
Many of you will have heard about GoodData before of course. Most people in
our industry know it was founded by serial entrepreneur Roman Stanek of
NetBeans and Systinet fame. Sun acquired NetBeans circa 1999 for $10M and
HP grabbed Systinet in 2006 for a mere bag of shells ($100M of them
actually).
GoodData is backed by heavy-hitting investors including Andreessen Horowitz
(Marc was also an initial angel investor) but... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
MapReduce (implementations include Hadoop and CloudDB) has gained popularity
in the industry. It also serves as marketing fodder for several new-breed
ADBMS vendors who now claim to support it in various forms. So what is really
behind this magic pixel dust, what problems does it solve, and how relevant
is it to someone deciding on a new (or additional) ADBMS pla... (more)
I have been so busy getting ramped up on GoodData that I haven't had a minute
to post here in over a week. On Friday, I am headed out to our R&D Center
in Prague, Czech Republic - looks horrible doesn't it? :) - for a week to do
a brain-meld with our engineering team and deep-dive the GoodData
architecture. I've learned a lot about it in the past two weeks but clearly,
there's nothing l... (more)
I want to keep this post fairly brief because there is so much stuff going on
at XSPRADA lately that I find myself pressed for time from 6AM to midnight on
a typical day which usually also includes weekends, but that’s the price
you pay for building a revolution. Ask Fidel, he knows.
First of all, I finally had time last Sunday to record a screencast
explaining how to install and setup ou... (more)
Two completely different events caught my attention lately. One of them is a
post by Curt Monash called Bottleneck Whack-A-Mole, and the other is the
much-publicized alliance for “BI in the Cloud” comprising RightScale,
Talend, Jaspersoft and Vertica.
In the post, Curt describes software development (or developing a good
software product) as “a process of incremental improvement”. Fair en... (more)
Twenty years of extensive hands-on software development, application engineering, customer interaction, management and consulting experience spanning a diverse array of industries and business models.
Now a "full-service" sales engineer, solutions architect, evangelist, technical ambassador (or whatever you want to call it) in the business intelligence space, specializing in high-performance analytical database management systems (ADBMS).
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