Real Life Issues With Big Data In The Enterprise – The Issues With Data Completeness

So completeness can mean a lot of different things.  In this case I am going to define a piece of data as being complete if the description of the data contains all of the available information about the item in question and if that description is captured in a manner which represents a true representation ...

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Real Life Issues With Big Data In The Enterprise – The Issues With Data Consistency (Or Lack Thereof)

Large Enterprises face huge challenges when dealing with their Big Data.  In this article I am going to outline some of the common challenges with Big Data I see firms dealing with on a day to day basis.  This is a continuation of the discussion that was started in the article titled “The Challenges of ...

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The Challenges of Dealing With Big Data

Big Data poses many challenges to those firms who have to deal with it on a regular basis.  On the flip side,  those who do it well and can use it to feed their analysis and gain insights into their business, customers and market trends will reap huge rewards for their efforts. I have just ...

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Introducing Ask The Experts

So as we relaunch the Technology Musings blog,  we have added a new feature to it called “Ask The Experts”.  You will find the link to this at the top of the Technology Musings blog. This came about because a lot of people who read this blog have over time tracked me down through Twitter, ...

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Back From The Dead

Well looking back at the last blog post I did, it's been over a year since I wrote it and I thought I would provide some insight into why the long hiatus.

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Thoughts about Technology and Startup's

The Need For Speed View Comments

Yesterday was a busy day for me.  It started at 4:30 AM when I had to do an interview with a reporter from Bloomberg who covers the European Stock Exchanges.  There was then coverage of the goings on with some of my clients in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and many other papers, which …

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Posted on: 08-26-2009 in High Performance Computing

“At Age 35, Mozart Was Dead” View Comments

The title of this blog is a quote from Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital during a Fireside Chat with Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technologies, Paul Graham of YCombinator and Mike at the Revenue Bootcamp held last July.  If your an entrepreneur and haven’t watched the video for this, I encourage you to watch it, as …

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Posted on: 08-24-2009 in Technology Startups

How To Build an SOA Based, High Performance, Scalable and Reliable Twitter on Steroids View Comments

Over the past few days I have been having some issues with my Twitter account.  Beyond the well known pauses in the service, outages, etc there are some less known but more annoying problems with twitter search.  It turns out that many accounts don’t show up in search at all.  Therefore, if you are one …

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Posted on: 08-20-2009 in High Availability (HA), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software Design

What’s in a Cloud (or Not) View Comments

I read a lot of articles on technology and it always amazes me the degree of heated debate that goes on in the blogosphere, social media and elsewhere over simple definitions.  What caught my attention today was the number of posts and comments on Twitter about what was or was not Cloud. So the question …

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Posted on: 08-18-2009 in Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software Design
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