Whither DBA: Will we still have them in 2026?
I recently fielded a question from a former co-worker who works as a senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA). I spent much of my career with Oracle, and I’ve asked myself the same question: I am one of those DBAs who can see Oracle's market share gradually being eroded and replaced by a whole bunch of [...]
The Four Things You Need for Contextual Decision-Making
Why Enterprises Need Contextual Decisioning The world today is faster-paced than ever before, and the explosive growth of both 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a greater variety of data at extremely high velocity. As a result, enterprises are now faced with an extremely short window of opportunity to respond to events [...]
Why We’re Excited About the Anthos Partnership
Recently we announced we had joined Google Cloud’s 5G Edge/ISV partner initiative, and that we would be available in Google Cloud with Anthos as a platform for delivering applications and solutions to the network edge. It’s important to spell out why this is such an important partnership for us and how it will help us […]
MWC21: Boots, or in Our Case, ‘Robot Wheels’, on the Ground in Barcelona
This was a Mobile World Congress (MWC) like no other. Thanks to COVID, I was not there with a team of five-plus colleagues, pounding the halls, connecting with customers and partners, and attending executive meetings. Instead, I ‘manned’ our stand in #cloudcity entirely with remote robots from Ohmnilabs. Depending on your point of view, this [...]
How to Use Contextual Decisioning to Optimize Business Outcomes
More and more organizations are seeking to operationalize their decisions into software-enabled platforms as part of their digital transformation. These same organizations have invested quite heavily (and recently) in big data and machine learning. This has led them to understand how fast business situations evolve when operating at web scale and how this pace is [...]
What’s an in-memory database?
An in-memory database is a modern data management system that stores data in the system’s main memory (most often RAM), as opposed to a traditional database that uses disk/device storage. When you process data in an in-memory database, only the RAM is used/accessed. There is no need to access the secondary memory and navigate the [...]
