Saturday, May 22, 2010

Aweekstweets May 15-22 2010—the week I could barely keep it all in memory

@PaulSweeney EDW = enterprise data warehouse about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck in reply to PaulSweeney

A blink is a probabilistic pattern of the future unfolding. about 3 hours ago via txt

A blink is hardwired subconscious predictive analysis of a situation with stakes too high 2 wait 4 historical POV or even the conscious now. about 3 hours ago via txt

Gladwell's blink is little decisions made in little time with little information and little awareness but with potentially big consequences. about 4 hours ago via txt

A tweet can be a blink, as in Malcolm Gladwell's book. A judgment snap, the opposite of the overthink. about 4 hours ago via txt

Intelligent persistence rule #6: always balance IO bandwidth requirements against IT budget constraints. All in within means or wherewithal. about 7 hours ago via txt

All in memory. Of course is already here in every smart device. Mobile clients + next-gen EDWs optimized 4 cache-intensive agile commerce. about 7 hours ago via txt

All in memory. Clearly SSDs will push first & furthest into EDW appliances optimized for really urgent real-time analytics. about 7 hours ago via txt

All in memory. Means let analytic & trans apps access bigger, faster pools of the highest IOPS non-vol solid-state persistence available. about 8 hours ago via txt

Enterprise memory. All in that memory? Much on disk & tape. Retain some purge rest. What only in RAM might vanish from institutional memory about 8 hours ago via txt

Probably useful to distinguish enterprise memory from machine memory. Former must be non-volatile & transactional. Latter may be flaky. about 8 hours ago via txt

Svc-oriented analytics: max reuse of data metadata calcs code models rules filters views xforms definitions queries: EDW as governance hub about 8 hours ago via txt

Dusting....soon to be followed by vacuuming...soon to be followed by cleaning the rag & vacuum cleaner...soon to be followed by sneezing. about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck

Odd phrase: "I hope this email finds you well." Are computerized messages sentient beings in their own right? Do we have cause to worry? about 11 hours ago via TweetDeck

Listening to C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat." An utterly perfect dance track. Staccato synth demands that EVERYBODY DANCE NOW! about 20 hours ago via txt

At Famous Footwear, tweeting. But U already knew that. Clarification: U knew I was tweeting, but not the bit about the footwear. Or did you? about 23 hours ago via txt

Let's see... "ineffectual" Obama has reformed US health insurance and financial services industries in less than 2 years. Not too shabby about 23 hours ago via txt

My new favorite phrase: "it's in my wheelhouse," meaning in my coverage area, competency domain, or, baseball fans, in my strike zone. about 23 hours ago via txt

Actor William H. Macy once asked rhetorical question "what's king of England look like?" "He looks like me," he said, and donned the crown. about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck

There are as many definitions of professionalism as there are livelihoods. Every practitioner has own self-serving definition. And so forth. about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck

Professionalism is one of most slippery concepts. Point at someone been successful longtime moneymaker at something: that's professional! about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck

Sonya commented that her father puts the most unflattering photos as his Twitter pictures. This is me at the NYSE. about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck

@SethGrimes #TAS10 But sidewalks in Vegas, off Strip, are far, far emptier & the streets far, far straighter than Boston. Very walkworthy! about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

Small data's cool too. Just the key details and a quick sketch that suggests the universe. The universe unfolds from the teensiest nucleus. about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck

One of the nice things about being with big analyst firm is the huge amount of good data that flows your way. Big honkin' data! Uncle UNCLE! about 24 hours ago via TweetDeck

Let's see...I spent half of today printing out the email from this week that I'll need to respond to next week. I've barely read it yet. 5:51 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

Getting ready for #forrester IT Forum all next week in Vegas. Hope to see you all there. You like to walk? Me too. Outdoors. Not on Strip. 5:16 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

@EventCloudPro #hadoop #mapreduce #cep "current project processing peak data rates of 5TB/hr (uncompressed)" JK--Damn impressive! 5:14 PM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to EventCloudPro

Got good feedback from clients today on stuff I said, but head feels ragged. Not sure delivered max value. Chalk it up to road trip hangover 5:11 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

Hmmm...I went a full business day at the office without once thinking of going into my Facebook. Meaning of that? Not sure. 5:09 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

@EventCloudPro #mapreduce #cep Are you doing that with Hadoop & all-in-memory architectures? If you aren't that's cool. Just curious. 5:08 PM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to EventCloudPro

Hadoop's coming into more product roadmaps: BI, DW, adv analytics vendors. No, I'm not hearing in-memory real-time Hadoop, but who knows. 4:58 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

If RAM's crazy-expensive, then "all-in-memory" is crazy-cuckoo, unless you have some super-differentiating real-time analytics app in mind. 1:54 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

Intelligent persistence management is about optimizing info management lifecycle across dynamically evolving storage & cache resources. 1:47 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

All-in-memory. Feels like a mantra in search of a vision. Intelligent persistence management is more all-encompassing. 1:42 PM May 21st via TweetDeck

More broadly, the "all" in "all-in-memory" will encompass all enterprise data, metadata, models, & app logic. Overboiled ocean of a vision? 11:12 AM May 21st via TweetDeck

Join #SenSage me & #forrester colleague John Kindervag for webinar "Leveraging Event DW for SIM" June 15 1-2pm EDT (http://bit.ly/dqEufK) 10:58 AM May 21st via TweetDeck

@SethGrimes #SAP #CEP Yes, bu #SAP not providing that key pred analytics data mining functionality from own tools. OEM from IBM/SPSS 10:53 AM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

@mbalch #Sybase That's for sure. I enjoyed that discussion at your analyst event the other day. 10:52 AM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to mbalch

@CurtMonash #sybase #sap Sybase not fringe. IQ, CEP, & RAP do adv analytics thru inline models. But #SAP should acq adv an tool vendor. 10:52 AM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to CurtMonash

@SethGrimes Yep but grandiose industry vision is ALL enterprise data (ie, tera/petabytes) in virtualized distrib memory. Tall order to fill! 10:49 AM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to SethGrimes

Pleasant morning of fixing home-office connectivity issues between two long road trips plus briefings & inquiries to keep things interesting 10:21 AM May 21st via TweetDeck

After several encounters over the years, I'd like to formally nominate NYC JFK for prize of worst US airport. A smelly, screaming madhouse. 6:15 PM May 20th via TweetDeck

Listening to Alanis Morissette "All I Really Want" from "Jagged Little Pill." She wanted "deliverance." Real time. "Do I stress you out?" Ya 4:16 PM May 20th via txt

Fair to say all-in-memory a hot new IT industry buzz, spanning analytic & transactional acceleration. I already miss my hard drives. 4:10 PM May 20th via txt

Econ dip, merely a blip. Asset atomization key 2 recombination. Hark the herald, no fear, it's not Gabriel trumpeter, but Joseph schumpeter. 1:11 PM May 20th via txt

Ironic the buzz on "all-in-memory." Evolution so fast human memory can't hold. Past now future--all is transient cache. Storage is burden. 10:04 AM May 20th via txt

#Sybase This acq will propel #SAP into advanced analytics. Inline predictive models in IQ, CEP, & RAP. In mobile geospatial too? 9:49 AM May 20th via txt

RT @kexpplaylist: "Pilgrim Of Sorrow by Joan Baez" #KEXP: JK--The most liberal practitioner of high-pitched self-righteous folk vibrato. 10:32 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Listening to 3 Dog Night "Eli's Coming" from "20th Century Masters" series. Hitmakers brought cool gospel vibe to many song interpretations. 10:30 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Fifth rule of intelligent persistence: not only for storage--mostly for moving info efficiently from source to user--more bandwidth for buck 10:26 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Fourth rule of intelligent persistence: memory speed trumps disk speed time and again, shared-nothing trumps shared-everything 10:23 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Third rule of intelligent persistence: real-time apps require end-to-end balanced capacity provisioning, wkld mgt, etc., none of which free 10:21 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Second rule of intelligent persistence: real-time and right-time apps require different persistence architectures. 10:18 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

First rule of intelligent persistence: fit persistence architecture to app requirements, including performance, scale, flexibility, TCO. 10:16 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

#SAP Plattner 6 Steps To R-Time DB Nirvana (http://bit.ly/ahxKEO) JK--Whoa! Too fast! First let's hear principles of intelligent persistence 10:14 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

"Algorithm spots sarcasm" (http://bit.ly/cygSMt) JK--Detects praise-phrase with hidden fangs. Version 2.0 will tell you why your jokes suck. 10:06 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

How long did it take Europe & Japan to rebuild from WW2 cataclysm? Need some perspective on open sore at Ground Zero, a decade later. 9:45 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

RT @michaelianblack "Part of me suspects boogers might be delicious." JK--Part of me suspects U dine there more often than willing to admit. 9:23 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

This dumb "let's all delete our Facebooks" movement is ridiculous. Nobody's forcing you to use it. Just abandon it. Get a friggin' life! 9:13 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

RT @jolenebonina: "Is it just me, or shouldn't all airports have free wifi?! " JK--It's just you--i.e., you should give everybody free WiFi! 9:08 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

RT @merv: On the floor of the NYSE with Sybase folks and analysts. (http://twitpic.com/1p8w2w) JK--That's Dan Vesset & Carl Olofson. 9:07 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Me & @mgualtieri were so into our NYSE trading floor (not "showfloor") conversation I forgot to pick up my photo. Hope they mail it. 9:03 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

For the second straight year at the #sybase NYSE showfloor after-hour hospitality suite I made Tara Verrek laugh uproariously. 9:01 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Or just forget it. 8:58 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

@cdiamand Two and half haikus, if U count syllables. But rendering as such requires split words. I don't do that. C next tweet 2 C wot mean 8:56 PM May 19th via TweetDeck in reply to cdiamand

Fuzz eject @mgualtieri & self from NYSE trading floor after hours. Charged us with destabilizing market. Too much tech trash talk. 8:43 PM May 19th via txt

Hypergadgetification of pedestrian culture even freakier in financial district. Open outcry a curbside skittering of smartphone dervishes. 6:00 PM May 19th via txt

Love lower Manhattan. The ur-original Gotham. Nassau Street. Dutch. Some of these streets were lanes were creekbeds. Buiilt on solid schist. 5:53 PM May 19th via txt

Love lower Manhattan. All the entertaining bills posted over the post-no-bills signs. A sign perhaps that nobody knows what a bill is. 5:45 PM May 19th via txt

#sapphirenow #SAP Business Analytic Engine, in-mem real-time calc engine for BWA, BW, BI, & app portfolio (http://bit.ly/bPkAW1) 5:33 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow #SAP announces Business Analytic Engine, in-mem real-time calc engine for BWA, BW, BI, & app portfolio. Cool. When's first GA? 5:32 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Excellent client DW strategy workshop today. We ranged widely and deeply in discussions. Agility across topics was essential. I'm exhausted. 5:25 PM May 19th via TweetDeck

Apparently Zune HD's "smart DJ" can read my mind/tweets. It queued Yo La Tengo 10-minute noise-epic "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" 6:07 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

@mgualtieri See you at the Sybase event. Looking forward to standing up at the NYSE opening/closing bell balcony tonight. 6:05 AM May 19th via TweetDeck in reply to mgualtieri

#sybase Most #SAP customers run NetWeaver w/ #oracle database. But expect IQ footprint in SAP accounts: real-time, columnar, CEP, analytics 6:04 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Queuing up Yo La Tengo & Frank Sinatra. My two favorite Hoboken-born artists. Thinking about Bugs Bunny & only Hoboken-born penguin. 5:59 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Prepping for my DW workshop by clearing mind. Don't over-prep. Stay agile. Clients tend 2 take DW wkshps in myriad directions. Diverse apps. 5:58 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Listening to Kasey Chambers, "On a Bad Day." Eastern Tennesee twang from Aussie country star. She & Nicole should duet. 5:54 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Listeninng to PJ Harvey "Good Fortune" from "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea." Ongoing story from sea makes me sick: pollution 5:51 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Yes, I do like the quiet of analyst/press lounges. But hate being away from main action at events. Showfloor buzz gives me buzz 5:49 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Great event for meeting old friends, making new friends. SAP a great host. Putting GCC on showfloor was cool, involving. 5:46 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Listening to Alison Statton & Spike "Seaport Town" from little-known but brilliant 1994 album "Tidal Blues." Does YMG & Weekend one better. 5:43 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow I remain impressed by SAP's user group. This event is huge annual refresher course 4 them all in all things SAP. Great tracks! 5:41 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Creedence Clearwater Rival? I suppose it might have been The Banned or Dubie Bros or Bob Dillon. 5:37 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Listening to Creedence Clearwater Rival "Someday Never Comes." Too easy to take this classic group for granted. Fogarty wrote great lyrics! 5:36 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Scuttlebutt has it that lack of bags for attendees this year an attempt by #SAP to reduce event's carbon footprint. Any truth? 5:34 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

@robsaker That's what I thought. How can it not? Petroleum is natural, and the ocean floor, like dry land, full of rifts and faults. 5:33 AM May 19th via TweetDeck in reply to robsaker

Listening to Stuart Moxham/Alison Statton duet, "Knives (Always Fall)," from Stu's "Signal Path." Only time both voices ever on same song. 5:31 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

RT @CNETNews IBM chooses Hadoop 2 analyze big data http://bit.ly/bhsOiV JK--Hadoop, MR, in-db analytics conspicuously missing @ #sapphirenow 5:26 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Before humans started drilling for it, is there any evidence for petroleum spontaneously gushing up from the ocean floor anywhere? Ever? 5:19 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Going to NYC now to do half-day DW workshop, then it's #Sybase analyst summit tomorrow, then #Forrester IT Forum Vegas next week 5:12 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Listening to Talking Heads "Stay Up Late," noticing that my own offspring tweet about staying up late. 5:08 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

I have never had any idea what "hip" is supposed to mean. Some sort of streetwise sophistication & contemporary knowingness. Maybe I do know 5:05 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

Aku memikik karena berkata "pekik" kalau mau bilang "pukul." Ma'af! Aku coba, tapi lupa banyak kata kalau tidak sering berbahasa Indonesia. 4:07 AM May 19th via txt

Ada banyak becak di Amerika kalau tinggal di Jln Intrnt'l Orlando. Banyak pohon tropikal disini. Tapi tak takut terpukul kepala oleh kelapa 4:00 AM May 19th via txt

RT @thinkovation: "Welcome to decade of Smart" JK--Let's not turn this into decade of unanchored adjectives--"smart," "green," "agile," etc. 3:17 AM May 19th via TweetDeck

#Sapphirenow Ever notice how sprawling Orlando conv ctr complex is? South wing in Orange County FL, West Wng in OC CA, North @ OC Virginny 7:45 PM May 18th via txt

SNA got me reading genealogy. Understand meaning of "nth cuz y times removed." n+y=gens since our common ancestor. y=gens btwn us. 7:25 PM May 18th via txt

Listening to Grizzly Bear "I Live With You" from "Veckatimest." Zune HD mis-specifies "Related Artists" Starkly operatic. Sufjan 1st cousins 7:21 PM May 18th via txt

Being industry analyst year upon year, ya see beyond vendors products techs & trends. All's a slurry, an ambition-inflected continuing saga. 7:15 PM May 18th via txt

Orlando & Las Vegas. Grand artificial American getaway destinations. Orlando legitimately family-friendly. Vegas boldly artificial. Bizzzzzz 7:07 PM May 18th via txt

Felt like #SAP had a bit more pep in its step this year than at previous SAPPHIREs. New management more assertive. Not as Shai...umm...shy. 6:36 PM May 18th via txt

Gimme an iced tea, straight-up, unsweetened, unspiked. None of the hard stuff fer me, ma'am. I'm walkin' 6:33 PM May 18th via txt

Humid Mid-May Orlando sidewalk ramble. Listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan "Cold Shot" from his greatest. Slow soulful burning passionate vocal. 6:07 PM May 18th via txt

Ada banyak becak di Amerika kalau tinggal di Jln Intrnt'l Orlando. Banyak pohon tropikal disini. Tapi tak takut terpekik kepala oleh kelapa 5:42 PM May 18th via txt

All talked, tech'd, & tuckered out, but still got a few tweets left in me before I pockt this insanely addictve little jotlog of a smartfone 5:32 PM May 18th via txt

Did cool chat with Celestica on adv analytics. Qian & I sync'd on architecturals. I referenced @bevelson #forrester "BI on BI" #sapphirenow 5:03 PM May 18th via TweetDeck

Wanna formally welcome @hsmalltree to the never-ending Belltown Ramble that is Twitter. #kexp 4:57 PM May 18th via TweetDeck

Listening to Pink Floyd "Us & Them" from "Dark Side of the Moon." Me me me me me....you you you you you you 4:54 PM May 18th via TweetDeck

Optimizing the personal-business process of breathing deep & the continuous complex streaming event of oxygen ingestion & calm enrichment 4:53 PM May 18th via txt

Getting pumped up for next week's #Forrester IT Forum in Las Vegas. By "pumped" I mean caffeinated. Heavily. 1:24 PM May 18th via TweetDeck

My colleague @bevelson noticed that the percentage of prof svcs partners on #sapphirenow showfloor grows year after year. 1:04 PM May 18th via TweetDeck

RT @Alyssa_Milano "Wherever you are in your day, I hope you're giggling." JK--If at job interview, jury duty, or funeral, you're exempt. 12:13 PM May 18th via TweetDeck

"Excellent, Smithers....release the hounds!!!" 11:57 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

I stand behind what I tweeted about morphing Jobs & Gates' current photos. But my current Twitter photo distressingly "Mr. Burns"-ish too. 11:54 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

Big shout-out to #nemertes #imlazar. One of my favorite people in the analyst space. We go back a ways. Pleasant chat at #sapphirenow 11:52 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

Not finding much customer overlap between #SAP & #Sybase. At least, not among #sapphirenow attendees I've spoken with. 11:49 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

@Dana_Gardner It wasn't Hot Blooded, Check it and See. It was Cold As Ice. Willing to Sacrifice Our Love of Great Rock? Nope. Punk'd #kexp 10:08 AM May 18th via TweetDeck in reply to Dana_Gardner

#kexp 1977-78 was very transitional period for pop music--60s were dead, 70s disappointing, radio useless--we were poised 4 next big groove! 9:50 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

@bevelson @lizherbert #sapphirenow They can differentiate if they integrate real-time on-everything into agile, predictive biz processes 9:48 AM May 18th via TweetDeck in reply to bevelson

@imlazar In the GCC! Near the coffee! 9:46 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow On-device, -demand, -premise. OK OK, but I'm still looking for in-db, but guess that's where #sybase comes in. Thurs, NYC , Cya 9:23 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Best-run business link all stakeholders, all the time, through all channels, with pervasive mobility, agility, & analytics. 8:50 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Best-run businesses fit latencies to decision cycles. The more continuous, ad-hoc the decisions, stronger need for real-time. 8:49 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow: McD: "In-memory DB allows billions of trans 2 B analyzed at speed of thought." JK--Speed of thought before or after caffeine? 8:45 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

RT @BobDylanSays: "Couldn't stand on his feet" JK--An unfounded accusation Mr. Tambourine Man! I only had one Scotch whiskey last night! 6:54 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

RT @BIReporting: Oracle Intros Oracle Comms Data Model (http://bit.ly/cpNXln) JK--Complete solution incl Exadata, data mining models, & BI. 6:51 AM May 18th via TweetDeck

Ran the "Good morning!" gantlet of OC Conv Ctr breakfast waitstaff here at #Sapphirenow. Woke myself up just walking & nodding. 6:07 AM May 18th via txt

How will analytics change when quantum computing ubiquitous? All calcs globally optimized. All data instantaneously propagated. 6:13 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

Listening to Lou Reed "Romeo Had Juliette" from "The Definitive Collection."Most perfect example of Lou the NYC rock-poet, after "Wild Side" 6:10 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @kingsthings: "I am not a big soccer fan, so why am I excited about the world cup?" JK--Cuz U's an excitement junkie,man, & we luvya4it! 6:07 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

@EventCloudPro Ummm...next-best-action in conjunction with their transactional apps, for starters. 6:06 PM May 17th via TweetDeck in reply to EventCloudPro

#sapphirenow Enjoying this year's SAPPHIRE more than previous year's. #SAP feels invigorated. #Sybase likewise these past few. Good match! 6:04 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Any armadillos in Orlando? Grooving to Jefferson Airplane "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil" from "After Bathing At Baxter's" 6:03 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow I wish vendors would put the evening's big aging popstar musical entertainment on Night One. I rarely stay till the last. 6:01 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow I wish #SAP would stop referring to themselves sheepishly as a "German company." They're as global a company as they come. 5:57 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow I'm getting no warm&fuzzies from #SAP re any plans for MapReduce or Hadoop for in-db, in-cloud, or in-CEP analytics. 5:55 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow SAP saying squat re Sybase plans. Good for them. Gotta be careful. I'm free to speculate though. 5:54 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Still waiting to hear if/how #SAP #Sybase tackle chief #EDW mkt imperatives: max scale, flexibility, affordability. 5:52 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

Knocking down Michelob Ultra Amber here on quiet eve showfloor at #sapphirenow. Listening to Cream's awesomely juicy version of "Spoonful" 5:43 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @Staten7: RT @zappos: "Airports closed due to volcanic ash. ...next big challenge isn't cloud computing, it's cloud commuting." 4:54 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

"SAPPHIRE 2010: SAP's last chance?"(http://bit.ly/apDBrU) JK--SAP needs stable, visionary, aggressive leadership to fend off ORCL challenge 4:51 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @emuhlhan: #HP announces new BI svcs in support of environs running #SAP BW #HPBI http://bit.ly/90jSJI JK--HP is strong SAP partner 4:41 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Colin Powell speaks like yr best college buddy. Didn't expect him 2 B this nice. Apparently, never had his chevron tattooed on. 4:38 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @kingsthings "One of saddest things to me in all of modern media is decline of the newspaper. Sad. Sad. Sad." JK--Don't look back Larry! 4:36 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @JohnFMoore "Social Relationship Marketing" http://bit.ly/bTo8Wl #cmo JK--"Socially engineered experiences"? Sends shivers up my spine. 4:35 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @brunocm: "Mining & Analyzing Online Social Graph Data" http://j.mp/c3Rp8Q JK--Very interesting/scary. Privacy implications. See Slide 16 4:24 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @CRMJuan: Sikka: "In-memory tech can organize events and be basis for internal collaboration. "JK--That's overstating its role. 4:21 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

What's more important: being a military leader or civilian leader? How introduce Powell: General, Secretary of State, or both? 4:12 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @skemsley: "content is a lazy asset" #sapphirenow JK--Sorry, but that phrase made me giggle silently. You know why. 3:46 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Other #Forrester in Orlando: @cmooreforrester @bevelson @paulhamerman & Andrew Bartels; in Frankfurt, @hkisker & Duncan Jones. 3:45 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow At Keynote session waiting for Colin Powell, who's listed as "General Colin Powell" but doesn't being Secretary of State count? 3:42 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

"SAP preps in-memory database appliances" (http://bit.ly/aSQPiX) JK--They have BWA now...will take their analytics portfolio down that road 3:10 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

"Cryptographer Whit Diffie takes ICANN security job" (http://bit.ly/crU1kV) JK--Does this make Whit the Internet's security czar? 3:08 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

Where are the #sapphirenow bags? How do they expect us to carry all this literature and other goodies? 3:06 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

RT @gkm1: How deep? @jameskobielus says dynamic optim'zn of deep past (mining), deep present (CEP), & deep future (predictive). #SAPPHIRENOW 2:59 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

@cydtetro Would be better if NBC let us apply those same "emotional options" to primetime & latenight lineups--and to their management! 2:56 PM May 17th via TweetDeck in reply to cydtetro

Per #SAP discussion on in-memory analytics: how continuously optimize decisions when all variables constantly vary & all constraints do too? 2:55 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

I'll do video interview soon with #SAS on trends in advanced analytics, discuss apps of social ntwk analysis & social media analytics. 2:52 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

Hey @imlazar follow-me on Twitter. Yes, I'm here at SAPPHIRE. Would be nice to chat with you again. 1:44 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow #SAP aleady had a lot of important announcements queued up for this week's show, before the #Sybase announcement. Good! 1:41 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

In-memory architectures stoke faster, better decisions, transactions, & biz processes. Support more effective, agile, business responses. 1:40 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

As RAM gets cheaper, more virtualized, more cross-node, more persistence- & execution-agile, will become dominant transaction-analytics env 1:34 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow I don't sense that #SAP is as "rival-focused" as Oracle--i.e., they're quite aware of Oracle and others, but not obsessed. 1:00 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow #SAP doing seriously interesting stuff in analytics. Not referring to near-future SAP+Sybase. SAP even before Sybase on board 12:59 PM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow @rwang0 asks #SAP question re NetWeaver in the cloud. Vishal Sikka stresses work with tech partners such as #microsoft 8:47 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Mobile analytics is key. I'm expecting #SAP #Sybase put more in-memory tech in client 4 interactive exploration & visualization 8:16 AM May 17th via web

#sapphirenow I'm not hearing any discussion of solid-state drives (SSD) in #SAP #Sybase plans. Perhaps we'll hear more today. 8:14 AM May 17th via web

#sapphirenow I'm not hearing any emphasis on #SAP #Sybase reducing the cost of their DW appliances to compete with #Oracle #Netezza etc. 8:12 AM May 17th via web

#sapphirenow I'm curious which "memory vendors" #SAP working with. Massively parallel cross-platform memory virtualization tool vendors? 8:11 AM May 17th via web

#sapphirenow #SAP will remain "totally open to the major vendors in our ecosystem including those who compete with #sybase today," sez McD 7:59 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow #SAP co-CEOs key on #sybase acq reasons: 1) mobilility, 2) in-memory tech, and 3) analytics. 7:45 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Co-CEOs Jim Hagemann Snabe (Frankfurt) & Bill McDermott (Orlando) videoconf. First SAPPHIRE event linking 2 locations. 7:41 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Opening press conference. Transatlantic. Orlando & Frankfurt. Familiar analyst faces here incl. @paulhamerman & @rwang0 7:33 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

"Quantum Internet May Become a Reality" (http://bit.ly/9VUwQF) JK--Already is. Our online lives are utterly & hopelessly entangled. 7:19 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

#sapphirenow Just saw @rwang0 & CIO mag's Tom Wailgum here roaming floor. Tom'll interview me tomorrow. I'll bite off some more wit for him. 7:08 AM May 17th via TweetDeck

@davewiner "World’s Largest Social Net--Open Web. http://r2.ly/za2t" JK--Facebook is 2 OpenWeb what AOL was 2 Open Internet? Sitting duck? 6:50 AM May 17th via web

World’s Largest Social Network - The Open Web. http://r2.ly/za2t 5:57 AM May 17th via web from West Village, New York Retweeted by you and 7 others

#sapphirenow Met @mkrigman last night while checking in. Look forward to chatting more here. Have had my coffee. Buzzing with expectation. 6:45 AM May 17th via web

#sapphirenow Had a lite breakfast. Doing a lite Twitter check. Preparing for heavy day of briefings and discussions. Waiting for @bevelson 6:42 AM May 17th via web

"Fox News kiddie-porn scandal"? Sounds so hyper-sensationalistic, I'm sure it'll pre-empt all other coverage on all other channels this week 5:34 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

I used to like drinking tea & going to parties. Maybe I'll have to reconsider: just drink coffee, alone. Nah! Give me an Oolong Orgy please! 5:31 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

Ash in air, oil in the water, debt on the ground, malware in the ether. This just in: solar flares & nanobots hasten apocalypse. FilmAt11! 5:28 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

Man I love that fruit punch Snapple. Great airport on-the-run grab (and pay). Absence of carbonation. Resealable cap. Refreshing lite taste 5:25 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

Listening to Chad & Jeremy "A Summer Song." One of the great mellow melodies about this season that late-May barbecues will preview 4 us all 2:46 PM May 16th via txt

@NeilRaden Detroit's actual city motto is Latin meaning "reborn from ashes," or something to effect. A smaller, greener Detroit will arise! 2:17 PM May 16th via TweetDeck in reply to NeilRaden

@NeilRaden Detroit has long had larger percent of detached single-family dwellings than other big US cities. Many now dangerous rattletraps. 2:15 PM May 16th via TweetDeck in reply to NeilRaden

@NeilRaden Absolutely essential. Back in 70s, riding bus downtown to Tiger games, I recall thinking "this place needs serious demolition." 2:14 PM May 16th via TweetDeck in reply to NeilRaden

I rarely unsubscribe to any newsletter, even those on techs that I covered years ago. Still sorta reading Bruce Schneier. Worth following. 2:09 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

On way to #SAP SAPPHIRE. Bet there'll be a lot to discuss this year. 2:08 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

Another day of scraping texted-tweets & reposting to my Facebook.Why? Synchronous feeds of all my thoughts. Facebook my personal aggregator. 2:07 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

Holy Koyaanisqatsi, Batman! Growing trend of folks declaring quitting Facebook forever. Bravo 4 them bringing their lives back into balance. 2:04 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

Another day of explaining to people that email malware sending spam as me ain't me & in fact has defied my IT group's attempts to neutralize 2:01 PM May 16th via TweetDeck

L. Summers on CNN: When bubbles burst, recoveries take longer. Could be referring to blood blisters. Try to distract self till they subside. 9:38 AM May 16th via txt

Some bloggers said #SAP #Sybase need prove columnar biz val. Pish-tosh! My #Forrester #DW clients don't need convincing: very fast queries! 9:34 AM May 16th via txt

Social & cloud are kindred concepts. Both implicitly undermine possibility of centralized control, scoff at notion of consolidated platform. 9:28 AM May 16th via txt

Haven't seen as much concatenation of today's hottest buzzwords--"social" & "cloud"--as U might expect. Former app-y. Latter infra-centric. 9:22 AM May 16th via txt

Heard great acoustic version of Barenaked Ladies' "This Is Where We Used To Live." Former of schizoid group's 2 modes: folky or jokey. 9:13 AM May 16th via txt

Store manager: Customer idling in Aisle 1 requests U not interrupt Madonna "Beautiful Stranger" playing on the overhead PA. Not again! 2:48 PM May 15th via txt

Issue: How many distinct concurrent conversational contexts can any of us keep live coherent smart and cool in our minds without cracking? 1:00 PM May 15th via txt

Trying 2 juggle real-time outward-facing topic-drivn tweetjam + internal IM/chat session can make U dizzy. We #Forrester felt that this week 12:54 PM May 15th via txt

That Trader Joe Tabbouli salad we had for lunch was good. Goes well as garnish for Tippy's Taco enchilada platter. Not commercial msg, BTW. 12:48 PM May 15th via txt

Running errands. Half of life is running errands. Half of those are erasing results of erstwhile errant errands, ie those run erroneously. 12:43 PM May 15th via txt

Lost track of spreading crisis in GulfoMex. What percent of those white sandy beaches now soiled in oil? How deep a hole is BP sunk into? 12:35 PM May 15th via txt

A deliciously lo-humidity bluesky day in No.Va., following an intensely hi-humidity torrential end-of-day experience yesterday. Shweeeeeeet! 12:29 PM May 15th via txt

Enjoying idiotic non-questions in Parade Mag "Walter Scott Personality Parade?" eg "Molly Ringwald...can't believe she's mom in real life!" 10:48 AM May 15th via TweetDeck

Took great briefing and demo this past week from Datameer: pioneering vendor in commercializing Hadoop. 10:47 AM May 15th via TweetDeck

@NeilRaden That's the ONLY thing that bugs you about the industry? Wow! You're a very accepting man. 10:34 AM May 15th via TweetDeck in reply to NeilRaden