Cloud
October 1, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Cloud, Podcasts, Q&As ||
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 […]
Tags: backup, clumio
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July 21, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Cloud, Data Lake, Podcasts ||
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 […]
Tags: ahana, data management
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April 14, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Cloud, Oracle, Third Party Support ||
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 […]
Tags: cloud migration, continuous innovation model, ERP, escape hatch, escape hatch from oracle, oracle, SaaS, third-party support
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March 31, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Cloud, Data Lake, Podcasts, Product-based Platforms ||
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 […]
Tags: alluxio
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January 8, 2020 || by Dan Woods || Cloud, Data Science, digital transformation, External Data, Podcasts, Q&As ||
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 […]
Tags: grafana labs, observability
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October 9, 2019 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Cloud, Cybersecurity ||
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 […]
Tags: fortinet, john maddison
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September 24, 2019 || by Dan Woods || Cloud, digital transformation, Podcasts, Q&As ||
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 […]
Tags: dan seltzer, modern data architecture
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August 28, 2019 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Cloud, Data Science, Data Supply Chain, digital transformation, External Data ||
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 […]
Tags: dataops, devops, hitachi vantara
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August 26, 2019 || by Dan Woods || Cloud, Cloud Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Podcasts ||
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 […]
Tags: alluxio, storage orchestration
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June 26, 2019 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Cloud, Data Lake, Q&As ||
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 […]
Tags: Dremio
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