There have been many relatively recent dramatic improvements in hardware. Factors such as processor speed/design and network capacity appear to be making shortages of hardware resources very pre-2011. Not to mention falling prices that appear to not have hit bottom just yet. But with improving...
Periodically, in addition to the news and trends you'll find here at the blog, we'll give you information on updates to the products that many of you are using. As always, feel free to comment or add any features you wish to be included - we love feedback!
With the release of Progress DataDirect...
Every year without fail Gartner and other analyst firms issue their 2011 predictions on hot trends in technology. The 2011 Top Strategic Technologies release from Gartner piqued my interest enough to do a bit of prognosticating myself. [A...
Reading the news about Dell’s acquisition of Boomi on Tuesday, I’ve come to this conclusion: history is repeating itself. Even more consolidation in this space is likely to occur. Integration...
Over the years, companies can build up some pretty junky architecture, cobbled together from a combination of existing bulk load tools such as the BCP Utility, dbload or FTP servers. Not to mention, compressing, FTP-ing, converting, shredding, parsing, optimizing, loading and validating bulk data is...