Blog Entries tagged 'xldb'

New software licensing is needed

michael@xlmpp.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Over the last year I have spent a good amount of time thinking about the cost of analytics, and a few things worry me about our industry and how vendors price in this industry. In the Data Warehousing and BI industry, we're starting to see pricing models based on data volume or size. I know of one vendor which prices by specint, so - get a bigger system or virtualize your systems - get a big bill.

The problem with these licensing schemes is that they actually make the [...]

Analytics as a Service

oliver@xlmpp.com — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Analytics as a Service

What Do you think about Agile Analytics? Every heard about it? Well, here are a couple thoughts from the guys who deal with it on a daily basis.

Analytics as a Service

Looking forward to seeing your comments on this one.

Science - DB Research Meeting

oliver@xlmpp.com — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Next week I will be attending the next iteration of the xldb group events organized around eXtreme Large Database Applications. xldb workshop

With 100s of Peta Bytes of information waiting to be captured and analyzed, new concepts are required to scale today's platforms by 1-3 orders of magnitudes.

Today we 'limit' ourselves to 'only' capture 40TB/day of incremental incoming data volumes, next [...]