Cloud Data Warehouse

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 episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Rob Woollen, the CEO and cofounder of Sigma Computing, about designing enterprise platforms. Sigma Computing’s products can be a component inside an enterprise platform, as the company was created to bring the spreadsheet paradigm to the world of business […]

March 6, 2019

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods speaks with Rob Woollen, CEO of Sigma Computing. Sigma Computing’s products can be a component inside an enterprise platform, as the company was created to bring the spreadsheet paradigm to the world of business intelligence and data analytics. This is an idea […]

March 5, 2019

In this edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Spencer Kimball of Cockroach Labs about the history of the modern database market. The conversation covered the beginnings of databases, how they’ve evolved, and where they are right now. Kimball offered an interesting explanation of the history and development of SQL databases and other […]

January 14, 2019

In this edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Donald Farmer of TreeHive. The conversation focuses on how important data and analytics have become to the enterprise today. They discuss data supply chains and the productization of AI and data analytics, as well as the following topics: 2:45 – Farmer’s theory […]

December 21, 2018

In the latest edition of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Tendu Yogurtcu, CTO of Syncsort, during the Strata NYC Conference. Dan covered Syncsort’s technology in a recent article for Forbes in which he describes how the company is helps businesses manage their entire data supply chain. Today’s conversation covers a gamut […]

October 1, 2018

The idea that we won’t have to clean and disambiguate data is ludicrous. We’ve lived with enterprise business intelligence (BI) for several decades now, and it’s no secret that many of us are fed up with the inability of such expensive technology to deliver the business value we need. Some vendors have keyed into this […]

December 9, 2017

One of the most critical contributors to the Obama campaign’s success was the direct access it had to a massive database of voter data stored in Vertica. The 2012 Obama re-election campaign has important implications for organizations that want to make better use of big data. The hype about its use of data is certainly […]

December 9, 2017