3 Critical Programming Performance Criteria

The new year always presents great opportunities after the holiday rush and code freeze-thaw of the holiday year-end. Unfortunately the code freeze-thaw can present wonderful opportunities for growth. Recently these three critical factors came to light during the analysis of performance aspects of the new version of a website.

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IBM Big SQL Interface Out-Performs the Others

At the recent Insight and IDUG conferences IBM talked about its many new software products for modern corporation information management. These new products handle the constant flow of inexhaustible big data from new data resources like social data from Facebook, Twitter and other sources; location or motion data from the Internet of things, phones or . . . → Read More: IBM Big SQL Interface Out-Performs the Others

INSIGHT Conference Trip Report

The IBM Insight Conference has just completed. There were several major software, partnership, and direction announcements. All of these announcements were crowded into a very busy technical conference of presentations by IBM, third party software vendors, IBM business partners, and industry consultants who spoke about their ideas, practices and solutions.

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Apple and IBM Partnership to Leverage BLUMix Synergies

The recent partnership between IBM and Apple combines the expertise of the enterprise and user-friendly mobile application devices. The partnership takes advantage of the expertise of both companies along with leveraging the new IBM BLUMix Cloud infrastructure, the various software platforms and package choices, and many application development options offered. Within the new BLUMix cloud . . . → Read More: Apple and IBM Partnership to Leverage BLUMix Synergies

Big Data after the IOD Conference Thoughts

As I get ready to travel to IDUG Berlin I look back at the Information on Demand (IOD) conference and remember the importance of all the components that enabled the conference theme, Big Data Analytics.

The first components are the front-end products Cognos and the new QMF. While sharing a cab to the airport in . . . → Read More: Big Data after the IOD Conference Thoughts