So normally I will not go controvercial on the blog. But here I go and I hope to do this to start dialogue that I can not seem to get the answers on. As a follow-up I will call both vendors (Teradata and Netezza) and interview them on their point of view. So here I g
I heard back from Netezza last night and got a very reasonable response that I would like to share. "..have not published a reference architecture because unlike other RDBMS/Server/Storage combinations there are a very limited number of variables or tunables, which effect Netezza
In our series on reference architecture from last week I now turn my attention to what I know of IBM‘s which is less than the first two. At the Think Big conference Dr. Bill O’Connell, Distinguished Engineer, Business Intelligence CTO, IBM Corporation did a spotlight
In a further effort to get a complete view of the landscape, I looked for as well as requested from Oracle their view on reference architecture. It appears that they do not have a public one, but don’t lose hope. I found some information on the web, but found that it
In an effort to get a complete view of the landscape, I looked for as well as requested from Netezza their view on reference architecture. It appears that they do not have a public one, but don’t lose hope. We will get a view from them to see what they have to say.
Welcome to the 17th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Ask and you shall receive – I asked and Yves agreed. This week we are podcasting from two continants (North America and France). I have joining me the Director of Product Marketing, Yves de Montch
So the last two posts covered a quick intro and a great view on the Corporate Information Factory. Today I want to open up for discussion Teradata’s Real-Time Enterprise Reference Architecture which is an article that Todd Walter wrote for Tech2Tech. I have seen and
In a previous post I introduced Claudia Imhoff‘s Corporate Information Factory. As I have been many conversations over the last little bit on this area I thought I would share three different views and then lastly a version I am working on. I even enclose my crazy di
Welcome to the 16th Episode of the CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X. Today I welcome Kim a Program Manager at a large Financial Services organization. Kim came from the IT ranks and then moved onto the business side where whe is running a fairly significant program. Toda
I would like to extrapolate on the idea of Reference Architecture as part of any strategic roadmap. In a meeting today with some people on the business side, they were having real trouble understanding or being able to create incremental change on some of their larger business i