Cloud

On this episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Poojan Kumar of Clumio. Their conversation focused on why backup isn’t a key source for data mining, analytics and applications. Kumar is one of the co-founders of Clumio, a modern cloud backup solution. Their conversation covers […]

October 1, 2020

This edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR) focuses on data management. EAR’s Dan Woods leads a discussion with Ahana’s Steven Mih and Dipti Borkar about using SQL as an integration point, along with how to use object storage. Their conversation covers: 4:30 — Presto’s history and relevance to today’s […]

July 21, 2020

Oracle’s Continuous Innovation release model is a reinvention of Oracle’s support services intended to encourage companies to pay a maintenance stream for updates to existing installed on-premise software, along with the associated costs of hosting, administering, and applying those updates. But, if customers reject this model and decide to move to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model […]

April 14, 2020

On the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platform Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Steven Mih, the CEO of Alluxio, a data orchestration platform that came out of the AMPLab at Berkeley. It is Mih’s second appearance on the podcast; the first episode covered the core value proposition of […]

March 31, 2020

On the latest edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Raj Dutt, CEO of Grafana, about observability. It’s a concept that Woods has been studying since learning of what Etsy did to make the development process faster. Etsy created huge amounts of observability so they […]

January 8, 2020

Sometimes, even for the most skeptical technology industry observers, it’s hard not to get caught up in the hype about the cloud. After all, the cloud offers so much adaptability, flexibility, and power for companies that at least on paper, it makes sense for them to leverage it to the greatest degree possible. But in […]

October 9, 2019

In this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast of Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Dan Seltzer, the former CTO of Credit Junction, about modern data architectures. The term modern data architecture has been used by vendors to mean a variety of things but Woods’ conversation focuses on the transition from […]

September 24, 2019

The idea of DataOps is rightfully generating a lot of excitement. Anyone who has seen up close what DevOps has done for development knows that applying the same principles to data management will be transformational. As part of a research project I am doing with Lothar Schubert at Hitachi Vantara, I’ve been digging deeply into […]

August 28, 2019

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast of Early Adopter Research (EAR), Dan Woods, the founder and principal analyst at Early Adopter Research speaks with Steven Mih, the CEO of a new company called Alluxio. Alluxio is a company that comes out of the AMPLab at UC Berkeley, which brought the world Spark […]

August 26, 2019

In a recent edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms Podcast at Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Tomer Shiran, the CEO and founder of Dremio. Their conversation focused on how to create a data lake for an end user, a topic that anybody who’s worried about BI and analytics should be interested […]

June 26, 2019