Sunday, February 28, 2010

Stuff that kept me informed these past few weeks February 16-25 2010

Twitter-esque Blippy asks, `What are you buying?'


ESJ.COM: IDC Predicts Strong Growth for Cloud-Based Analytics


Virsto Tackles Storage Virtualization


InfoWorld review: Databases primed for social networks


Time to Rethink Web-Based SOA?


EPIC Takes Buzz Privacy Battle to FTC

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69364.html


EMC Upgrades Atmos Cloud Storage


10 Cloud Computing Trends That Are Rapidly Catching on


Informatica Pushes Database Archiving into the Cloud


Google Did Not Anticipate Buzz Privacy Backlash


RIM Saves Bandwidth For Future Generations


Oracle set to merge Java virtual machines


BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends


EPIC files privacy complaint against Google Buzz


Goodbye, Google Buzz
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/893890/5553367/55195/0/


Google Buzz: Then and Now
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/893890/5553367/55211/0/


Web 3.0: The Dawn of Semantic Search http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2010/0210a/rW_CO_Web3.pdf


OpenLaszlo: Rapidly Build and Deploy Rich Internet Applications
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-openlaszlo/
http://www.openlaszlo.org/


SOCIAL CONNECTOR USHERS MICROSOFT INTO SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOL FRAY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10918102/2433922


SaaS takes on business intelligence


The ROI of High-Quality Decision -- Driving Gut Feel


A round of musical chairs in the identity arena


Why Google Buzz confirmed our two worst fears about Google


Future of data analysis is in tools for humans


DataFlux Launches Single Platform for Enterprise Data Management http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4186239&access=EH


Context Optional Launches Social Marketing Suite http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4188358&access=EH


Gartner lists 3 challenges for rebounding Teradata


Global CIO: Oracle Needs More Than Ellison's Talk To Beat IBM's Systems


Upstarts Keep Data Warehousing Competitive


Netezza Intros Entry Level Data Warehouse Appliance


Taser Builds Cisco-Based Data Warehouse


Cisco And HP Split: A Timeline To Divorce


Aster Blossoms


BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends


The Informatica Event


Sentiment Metrics Launches an Industry First in Social Media Engagement Capabilities http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4188942&access=EH


Jaspersoft's Open Source Community Drives BI Innovation, Represents the World's Largest BI Ecosystem http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4190301&access=EH


Vertica Broadens Reach of its Industry Leading Analytic Database with Version 4.0 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4190581&access=EH


Oracle's Ellison Reaffirms Rapid Profitability For Sun


Microsoft Continues to Spread

Open-Source Love


Aster Data 4.5



Analysis: What Oracle-Sun Means for BI and DW

Informatica Ups the MDM Stakes

Q&A: Closing the Customer Feedback Loop


IBM Scientists Use Analytics to Break Traffic Gridlock With Personalized Trip Information http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4192497&access=EH


Attensity Group Launches New Social Media Customer Intelligence Solution, Attensity Analyze for VoC Community Advantage http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4192567&access=EH


SAP Integrates Its On-Demand BI Solutions


David Intersimone: The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 3 of 3)


SaaS takes on business intelligence


Twitter users send 50 million tweets a day


Social CRM: Walk Before You Run
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69422.html


NEW ONLINE MARKETPLACE COULD BOOST DATA INTEGRATION APPLICATIONS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10947482/2433922


ParAccel Database Update to Focus on Analytics, Performance


11 Answers to "Why Isn't My BI Application Useful?"


Best in BI? Ask the Crowd


Onwards and Upwards


Is ERP as we know it dying?


Ten of the World's Strangest Social Networks


Do we need a social media 'operating system'?


SAP Rolls out SaaS BI for 'casual Users'
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/902010/5553367/56767/0/


Yahoo Competes for Social Web with Twitter Tabthan
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/902010/5553367/56770/0/


Teradata Extreme Data Appliance Dramatically Impacts How Companies Analyze Archival Data http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4193009&access=EH


SAP Unveils On-Demand

Business Intelligence Toolset


DataFlux Data Management Platform


Netezza Advanced Analytics

Upstarts Keep Data Warehousing Competitive


MICROSOFT'S MUGLIA BRINGS 'CLOUD COMPUTING FOR DUMMIES' ON STAGE
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10947332/2433922


Location-Aware Social Nets: Lights On, Nobody Home
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69424.html


IBM scientists use analytics to break gridlock
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/29506.wss


SAS and IBM on BA and BI

Goodnight on BI and Analytics


Is Google the new Microsoft?


'Business architecture' helps leaders decide on and execute changes at the new speed of business


IBM Releases Cognos Analytics Upgrades


Who Meters the Cloud?


James Taylor: Article on Decisioning and Process Management

Joe McKendrick: SOA Roundup: App Stores, Cloud Knowledge, Service Centicity, Events

Janne J. Korhonen: Paradigm Shift in IT: Implications of Service-Dominant Logic

Scott Cleveland: Performance Management & BPM

David Linthicum: Making Data Integration a Priority

Phil Wainewright: Putting Collaboration in Context

Brenda Michelson: Force.com + Visual Process Manager = Vanilla Layer Cake Theory

Mike Pascucci: Twitter for Business

Nari Kannan: The True Secrets of Agile Development

Andre Yee: Why Google Buzz Will Succeed (Or Why Google Wave Didn't)

John Goodson: Good Things Are Usually Expensive: MDM Case In Point


IBM Acquires Intelliden


Web Data Services in the Real World
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69342.html


Data Quality for Operational BI


IDC: Data Warehouse Shakeup


SGI offers supercomputing as a service


DBMS Vendors Likely to Get Scrappy in 2010
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69358.html


ORACLE DESPERATELY SEEKING CLOUD CRED
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10896345/2433922


How Do We Define a "BI Vendor"


Information Management and Integration


The ROI of High-Quality Decision Management Practices


Greenplum Software and BeyeNETWORK Release MAD Skills Analytics Survey Results http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4185717&access=EH


Microsoft Outlook Becomes Social Hub


Microsoft - still relevant, but no longer dominant (redux)


Oracle making new push into social services software


On Gartner's Data Warehousing Quadrant


What's the Deal with Private Clouds?


Open Source Choices

ROI Calculations Are a Joke


Can Microsoft Catch Up by Giving Away Azure?


QlikTech Launches 'Change Their World' Program Offering Free


QlikView Analytics Software to Organizations in Need

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4186272&access=EH


ESJ.COM: IDC Predicts Strong Growth for Cloud-Based Analytics


Java Scalability Provider Terracotta Partners with Eucalyptus Cloud Platform


THE FUTURE OF BI RESTS IN PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10905105/2433922