Category: NuoDB

Author: cwong. Today, I’m excited to announce the availability of NuoDB 3.0. This major release represents the culmination of years of hard work maturing our elastic SQL database into a fully capable and proven enterprise production database that supports migration-friendly ANSI SQL, full ACID compliance, and deployment across hybrid environments. One of the first to innovate on database technology by offering an elastic SQL database to market in 2013, NuoDB is commonly used today as a critical component in highly transactional, business-critical applications. Appearing to the application just as a standard SQL, fully ACID-compliant database, NuoDB’s underlying architecture offered a new design ... Read More

Author: . Emergence of Elastic SQLLately, we’ve been speaking a lot with organizations that have moved from discussing, planning, and strategizing about digital transformation to actually working on concrete ways to make it a reality. For some of the folks we talk to, it’s just an outgrowth and evolution of their cloud or container strategies. While for others, they have very prescriptive steps to take. Some of our customers even have directives that they *must* use an elastic SQL database.  In all these cases, the common theme is that application strategies have evolved to prioritize scale-out, distributed architectures, and continuously ... Read More

Author: . Originally published by CIO.In my last post, I talked about the idea of software-defined databases – what we're beginning to see called Elastic SQL databases. In this post, we'll talk about the ramifications such an innovation would have. Understanding the impact of the data center autopilot Current state of the art and my disappointment with traditional databases aside, I mentioned in my comments last week that the data center autopilot will have big consequences. It seems to me that there is not enough recognition of the likely impact. The tactical observations are that automation will reduce people costs, ... Read More

Author: . Originally published by CIO. Cloud data centers are not static environments, pre-provisioned to run a known, finite set of workloads to support predictable demand. They are highly dynamic environments in which everything is changing all the time. At scale. Which makes automation critical to success. At least it will be when we have figured out how to do it... Behind the cloud: administration and management Cloud users see the Cloud as a set of services, SLAs and invoices. That is surely the point: I click on my Netflix movie or fire up a server on AWS, and I ... Read More

Author: . Originally published by CIO.Diamonds may be forever but they are non-trivial to produce; applications that are forever may be nearly as challenging to create. A common idea in modern applications is that they “run forever”. That’s a fine objective, and a valuable one. But it is elusive, particularly for applications that were never cloud-native in the first place. And it raises quite fundamental issues at the data management layer of the stack. Diamonds may be forever but they are non-trivial to produce; applications that are forever may be nearly as challenging to create. Downtime cost estimates generally produce arresting numbers, but ... Read More

Author: . Originally published by CIO.Businesses large and small are making strategic commitments to technology as a primary driver of competitive success. There is broad acceptance that Every Company is a Software Company. Under the banner of digital transformation, businesses large and small are making strategic commitments to technology as a primary driver of competitive success. There is broad acceptance that every company is a software company. Like so many of these things, it sounds right, and it’s a valuable insight. All of us need to take seriously the idea that we need to engage energetically and relentlessly in digital transformation. But ... Read More

Author: . Time-to-value is often mentioned with great emphasis in marketing brochures, but rarely explained in detail. Perhaps the marketing mavens believe that the idea explains itself. After all, buying a product or service and being able to use it immediately – a time-to-value of zero - is instant gratification.However, time to value is usually somewhat greater than zero. Here’s a simple example. You buy a cabinet from IKEA to put your china in. You need to get it home and assemble it. Perhaps it will take half a day to complete that and dispose of the packaging. Or perhaps ... Read More

Author: . The following is an excerpt from a new eBook published by Tech-Clarity, “Cloud Considerations for the PLM ISV.” In my last post, I highlighted the business ramifications and high-level technical considerations for PLM vendors moving to a cloud model. In this post, I’ll talk about some of the deeper considerations - specifically around the database and architecture - that impact success. Technical Considerations Delivering PLM on the cloud obviously brings about technical issues. PLM vendors have had to deal with some unique challenges in their traditional software to support scalability and distributed solutions. Delivering the full stack in ... Read More

Author: . The following post is an excerpt from a new eBook published by Tech-Clarity, “Cloud Considerations for the PLM ISV.”The Cloud Opportunity for PLM Cloud solutions offer companies a range of compelling benefits including lower cost, scalability, ease of implementation, and reduced need for IT resources. Most companies are taking advantage of some cloud applications at this point, and it’s becoming a de facto architecture for some. That makes it an important option for independent software vendors (ISVs) to offer. Cloud adoption in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has been slower, at least partially due to limited demand from conservative ... Read More

Author: . Customer satisfaction can be a science. That’s the opinion of University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, which developed an econometric model to study it. (Visit www.theacsi.org if you want more details.) The model is fairly simple. It considers customer satisfaction with a product or service to have the following aspects:Customer expectations Perceived quality Perceived value Customer complaints Customer loyalty So what do these dimensions mean in respect to business software? To get a rounded view we need to consider it from the independent software vendor’s (ISV) perspective. The ISV is a specialist retailer selling a familiar business ... Read More