Entries categorized under “NoSQL”

Fusion-io has taken some very impressive steps to lure developers to adopt their ioMemory platform with some impressive features in the SDK kit. As we have revealed in prior blog entries, its new APIs for block IO and key value stores grant developers access to flash in ways that its competitors simply do not. In this final blog entry in my interview series with Brent Compton, Senior Director of Product Management at Fusion-io, he describes new memory-access semantics exposed in the SDK. (read more)

In the product and investing world, $1 billion dollars is interesting. Interesting markets draw new and existing companies. Derrick Harris of Gigaom believes Amazon's latest filing indicates they will have exceeded $1 billion dollars in revenue for Amazon Web Services by year end. $1 billion dollars creates a lot of interest by existing and venture backed product companies. (read more)

Information managers can expect data storage companies to drive significant campaigns around Big Data as we enter 2012. Storage is the least of anyone's concerns, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report Big Data: Harnessing a game-changing asset. Information Governance in 2012 requires Data Science strategy and practitioners be added to all business teams. (read more)

Consumerization of content consumption models exposes opportunities to incorporate business process metadata with Big Data. Consumerization includes proliferation of social networks, content syndication and mobile devices, such as Apple iPAD, Samsung Tablet, etc. Consumerization of content merging with Enterprise Business Big Data is a challenge best met by standardized content interfaces. (read more)