Will 2013 be the year of disruptive technologies? Is now the time when the ‘Nexus of Forces’ come together to change the way we work and the way organizations do business? Have you asked yourself, can your organization survive if it’s not digital? According to IDC, for “the past several years, the IT industry’s transition to the 3rd Platform, built [...]

With annual revenues in online gaming approaching $100 billion, competition is heating up and it’s getting harder to hook players into a game. Today’s players demand real-time responsiveness, more immersive graphics, and ever-more-exciting interactions with fellow gamers. That poses a dual challenge for game makers, who must pack larger and larger volumes of data — Big Data — into their games, while  [...]

I have written a  few posts on how in-memory solutions are being adopted in industries such as financial services, travel & logistics, and big pharma to overcome many kinds of Big Data challenges. Here I’d like to share an independent report from a leading analyst, Aberdeen Group, that reinforces the view that in-memory computing infrastructure is essential for successful Big [...]

Big Data has been a hot topic throughout 2012. With 2013 fast approaching,  we sat down with Terracotta CEO Robin Gilthorpe to get his predictions for the top trends that will drive Big Data activity in the coming year. His top five predictions (explained in more detail in this video) are: Big Data has to be fast data. Enterprises will profit from Big [...]

The majority of innovative applications are focused on leveraging the new computing models – mobile, cloud, social and information or Big Data. We recently polled over 200 architects and developers and 67% of those polled identified mobile as a priority for their organization, 47% identified Big Data, 40% identified cloud, and 16% identified social applications. In fact, according to Gartner, [...]

The nexus of the cloud, social media, mobile and big data will drive business apps to be more like consumer apps. How will you deliver these next-generation business apps? Will you build a brick wall around development or welcome user input? Some IT managers say they spend their jobs today preventing people from creating their own apps. But that’s the [...]

In the beginning there were enterprise applications. And, they needed to connect to each other. Integration companies were created, and things were good. Over the last 20 years, integration grew to encompass more than just pure inter-connectivity. It grew to include: data, events, and processes. Integration vendors called the integration piece a “bus” and loaded the bus with MDM (Master [...]