Blogs & Articles

John Schroeder is the founder and CEO of MapR. He has extensive experience in enterprise software, having worked at Calista Technologies, Rainfinity, BRYO, and Compuware. Our conversation focused on MapR’s unique data fabric technology, which is an evolution of the data warehouse and data lake. The data fabric expands upon these earlier repositories to push […]

August 19, 2018

Until now, IT has largely existed outside the realm of analytics and metrics that we apply to every other area of the enterprise. There’s an obvious irony here: IT is ensuring that every other segment of the company has products to assess performance while not having the same accountability for itself. That is starting to […]

July 26, 2018

The patterns of cyber attacks are well known and so are the targets. The bad guys are seeking to break in to get valuable data or take actions that benefit them, and want to go undetected for as long as possible. There are a number of solutions out there dedicated to prevention, system lock-down, prevention […]

June 13, 2018

The cloud has become an omnipresent part of the enterprise technological landscape. As I continue my research into how companies are moving to the cloud, I always enjoy speaking experts who can provide unique insight into what make these transitions tricky, and what can make them successful. As part of this research, I spoke recently […]

May 23, 2018

Recently, I spoke with Stephen Orban, a General Manager at Amazon Web Services and author of the new book, Ahead in the Cloud. Orban’s book is a fascinating look from someone with extensive insider knowledge about how companies can make the most of their transition to the cloud. As I’ve written before, I see tremendous […]

May 23, 2018

CIOs need to be sophisticated about both saving money and about finding new ways to amplify the value of their investments in software. Third party enterprise software support is changing to meet more of those needs. The world of third party support started as a way to reduce the flow of cash to the original […]

May 22, 2018

I realized that a large percentage of the people I talked to who are serious about making use of data to improve the world are also Instant Pot cooks, aka Potheads. Here are two of my recipes. Please share yours to @DanWoodsEarly and I will do a roundup.   Mushroom Risotto Ingredient Standard 1.5 x […]

March 8, 2018

Strata is so deep and so wide and so tall: how can you get your arms around it and find what you’re interested in? Watch this video to understand how Dan is creating a framework you can use for understanding all the vendors’ offerings and finding what will work for you.

March 7, 2018

Dan explains why he’s excited about Strata San Jose 2018. He talks about what he’s interested in and some of the vendors related to his interests. He discusses research missions and product profiles he’s working on and describes as the practical value you will get from them.

March 7, 2018

These layers of the analytics stack provide categories for each of the capabilities an analytics platform needs to create productized analytics applications.

March 6, 2018