Entries Categorized as 'Current Events'
by Andy Bitterer | February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
This post is in German since it refers to an event and a related article in Germany. Die Hamburger IT Strategietage sind hier in Hamburg kürzlich zu Ende gegangen, als mich eine Email eines Kollegen erreicht mit einem Link zu einem Artikel des bekannten CIO Magazins. Darin wird von einem Panel berichtet, das sich mit [...]
Category: Analyst CIO Current Events Gartner Magic Quadrant Tags: Analyst, Gartner, Germany, Strategie
by Andy Bitterer | January 13, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s that time of the year again, when many people from around the world gather in one place to discuss business intelligence, data warehousing, data quality, master data management, data integration, performance management, and so on. No, I’m not trying to get all buzzwords in (as there are tons more), just to highlight how broad [...]
Category: Current Events Gartner Tags: BI, conference, Gartner, Netherlands, Summit, The Hague
by Andy Bitterer | October 23, 2008 | 4 Comments
Of course, there is no point locking the barn door now, since the horse has bolted. I’m talking about those billions of dollars and euros being spent to save banks. In a nutshell, what caused the market meltdown were banks selling products and approving loans that came with an enormous risk, and unfortunately, that risk [...]
Category: Current Events Finance Market Politics Tags: bailout, banking, liability, risk
by Andy Bitterer | September 25, 2008 | Comments Off
With yesterday’s announcement of the Oracle Exadata Storage Appliance, Oracle essentially became a hardware vendor… well, sort of. With the help of their friends across Highway 101, Oracle leverages HP hardware, apparently servers and storage, Infiniband, its own 11g DBMS plus ASM and wraps it into a massively parallel database grid. So far so good. [...]
Category: Business Intelligence Current Events Market Politics Vendors Tags: appliance, data warehouse, database, DBMS, Exadata, HP, Oracle