Category: Technology
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EMC buying Greenplum
I had such a busy day that I didn’t get to post about EMC buying Greenplum. But there’s a good side to the delay too, because now I get to link to all the other folks who were faster than I, and have something to say on the topic. EMC To Acquire Greenplum EMC is…
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Data Warehousing Architect – A Beginners Guide
A good two page primer about DWH projects, start to end: Data Warehousing Architect – A Beginners Guide. […] Data warehousing is a process and just not about beautiful dashboards and colorful graphs. There is nothing called a perfect data warehousing solution that fits all. There are not right or wrong answers here and this…
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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Launch
Oracle is inviting for its Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Launch on 7. July. Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development are going to be at the London launch event, and will be broadcasted to local events throughout Europe. I may go to the Zurich launch event.
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Hadoop Update
A slew of updates on Apache Hadoop, nicely compiled by the nice folks at the 451 group: Cloudera launched v3 of its Distribution for Hadoop and released v1 of Cloudera Enterprise. Karmasphere released new Professional and Analyst Editions of its Hadoop development and deployment studio. Talend announced that its Integration Suite now offers native support…
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How Good Is Your Database Storage Management?
Oracle asks How Good Is Your Database Storage Management? I’ve not had time to go through the storage assessment form, so this is more a reminder for me to eventually look at it than anything else.
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Oracle Application Express 4.0
Oracle released APEX 4.0 a couple days ago. I’d be interested to hear if anybody knows of any enterprise grade deployments where APEX is used as a (lower tier) application layer, instead of full J2EE servers such as JBoss or Websphere.
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Quest to combine Oracle with Hadoop
Quest to combine Oracle with Hadoop: another one to show that Oracle is the clear market leader, and everybody trying to position themselves around them. Quest Software has announced a new partnership with Cloudera to create an Oracle connector for the Apache Hadoop database. […] The new tool not only handles data transfers, but also…
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Netezza with Oracle Compatibility
Hooray, Netezza licensed Oracle database compatibility technology from EnterpriseDB. Should give them a boost in the warehouse migration front. And shows that selling its Oracle compat layer has become quite a business on its own for EnterpriseDB, who already sold it to IBM for DB2 as well. The Netezza Migrator product allows organizations to make…
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OEM 11g Rollout Best Practices
The Oracle Enterprise Manager blog has some Tips for rolling out a new EM11g site. Only for those who deal with OEM infrastructures, but very good stuff for those who do need it.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer
Check out the SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer if you’re using SQL Server 2008. Looks to be a handy tool that just came out over the weekend. Gathers information about a Server and a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 instance installed on that Server Determines if the configurations are set according…
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