I came across this blog post on LinkedIn yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting counterpart to my colleague Amir’s recent post on whether size matters in regard to “Big Data.” The author is Demian Hess, from Avalon Consulting (a MarkLogic partner, who has built some very cool stuff on top of our database), [...]
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Fraud: Weapon of Asset Destruction
High-profile hacks and cyber espionage by nation states (or those working on their behest) have been in the spotlight of late. But a far more insidious computer threat lurks much closer to home: criminals perpetrating fraud. According to a 2011 report by public accounting firm UHY Advisors, fraud is a whopping $1 trillion dilemma in [...]
ACID, BASE and NoSQL
My last post talked about Enterprise NoSQL and ACID vs. BASE in the context of handling data variety. In this one I’d like to delve deeper into transactional, Enterprise NoSQL. Let’s start by focusing on the main question: How can one guarantee cross-record ACID transactions in a horizontally-scalable, schema-agnostic database? The short answer is an [...]
‘Who are you and what do you do?’*
I joined MarkLogic 3 months ago and it is an exciting time to be selling the only Enterprise NOSQL database that manages “any-structured data” (including XML) with its ACID compliance, JSON, SQL and REST interfaces, HA and DR functionality – exciting that is once I can decipher the acronyms. More pertinently, understand the capabilities those [...]
U.S. government gets a new test bed for secure cloud computing
MarkLogic is going to be helping the U.S. government to develop the next generation of secure cloud computing services to support Multi-INT data management and analysis. We’ll be doing this by participating in the CTE (Continuous Transformational Environment) Lab hosted within the QTS (Quality Technology Services) data center in Virginia. Leading hardware and software vendors [...]
Enterprise Big Data: It’s Not About Size
Data is at the center of most challenges facing our industry today, with business drivers such as new regulations, aggregated risk management, and deep customer insight all having critical data management implications. The term Big Data has become a common way to describe this, and while some of these challenges are associated with large volumes, [...]
Twitter et al & Inherent Risks of Some 3rd Party Hosted Solutions
The Tweet that humbled Wall Street last week was ironic and iconic at all at once. No doubt the venerable Associated Press had cyber-secured all of its many systems to safeguard the integrity of the news it disseminates. Globally, firms are expected to spend nearly $70 billion in 2013 alone. But for all the padlocks [...]
Betting the Firm on a Digital Infrastructure
I started in digital publishing at the onset — when you had no choice but to go out and roll your own infrastructure. There simply were no other options. Building from scratch was long and arduous, but as most anyone of a certain age will tell you, across any industry, you have a deeper understanding [...]
ACID Transactions…Check!
I remember the first time I wrote to a MySQL database. It was a simple JDBC program for test purposes, a bit more than Hello World but nonetheless designed to merely kick the tires of Java and JDBC, which were both relatively new at the time. With the Pet Store app not yet in existence, [...]
Podcast with one of the smartest guys I know
On April 3, CTOvision interviewed MarkLogic’s public sector CTO, Chris Biow, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with for the past year or so since I joined MarkLogic. Chris provided insights into why you might need a NoSQL database (hints: you have data doesn’t fit nicely into a relational model, and you need to [...]