Google just announced their Beta ‘Cloud Spanner,’ a “horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service.” This impressive hosted technology addresses a long-standing market request: “How can we make our SQL databases scale both writes and reads past a single server?” This is the very important difference between “scale up” and “scale out.” Can adding additional… View Article

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, welcome to the World Data Federation’s giant cage match! In the corner to your left we have the straggle-toothed veterans—Informatica, IBM, and Oracle—dragging their legacy architectures into the big data age with so called “end-to-end solutions” and only “one throat to choke.” In the other corner,… View Article

We see it everywhere these days.  That great big “thing,” those two scary words that send people into a frenzy.  Adults head for the hills, parents warn their children with bedtime horror stories.  Whatever you do, don’t be consumed by it! That’s right…social media. Oh, how frightening social media can be.  More and more you… View Article

We see it every year–the merry-making of the holidays is followed by the obligatory New Year’s Day trip to the gym. But while the rest of us are working off our turkey and apple pie indulgences, e-commerce companies are trying to figure out what to do with the excess capacity they’ve acquired over the course… View Article

Blogs consist of anything that interests you that relates to: PR, social media, technology, marketing, SEO, blogs, audience engagement, social influencers, trending topics, media in the news today, books you have been reading that relate PR, etc. It’s always best to add URL links in your blog posts as well as any videos or images…. View Article

When it comes to enterprise data, few voices are as respected as Jason Stamper of 451 Research, who has been commenting on the space for more than 2 decades, and whose work essentially identified “NewSQL” as a category. So it’s no light thing that ClustrixDB was recently featured in a 451 report by Stamper titled… View Article

Still using WebEx to train workers? We get it. With Web-Ex, you can deliver the same quality training programs your competitors do. But that’s the problem. Success doesn’t come to those who do the exact same thing their competitors do. Today’s organization competes in a knowledge economy. Competitive edge depends on information and effective application… View Article

1. You made the meeting optional In the mind of a busy worker, ‘voluntary’ means unnecessary. If the meeting is important, you require your learners to go. If it’s not that important, why are you hosting it at all? Even if there’s low-impact but “nice to have” information that you’d like your workers to know… View Article

I once read a Huffington Post article that shared advice for interns such as, “I was able to get a lot of feedback and advice on how to proceed with my career objectives.” That is when I changed my perspective about internships. It’s not that I had anything against internships, I just worked different jobs… View Article

MySQL has always been a great database option for companies in their infancy. It’s cheap and contains the basic functionality most organizations need. It is the simplest way to provide access to multiple databases for multiple users looking to sift through basic company structured data. Of course, as companies hit the big time and see… View Article