Late night television has been almost a competitive and turbulent as database market of late. We have the whole Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien – The Tonight Show dilemma. Then there is Oprah Winfrey announcing end of her show. And then there is Charlie Sheen talking about quitting Two and a Half Men; now this one will hurt.
But I digress. Scott Hayes of Database-Brothers Inc. has decided to combine his love for databases and passion for good entertainment to start a DB2NightShow.com. The format is more like Tonight Show but there is no band. The jokes are [...]
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Last week I blogged about the rise in importance of location-based data. The timing was not a coincidence. I am a bit of a gadget freak and last week was a pretty important event in the world of gadgets and technology in general. For the first time ever Apple, a company specializing in mobile devices, became the largest technology company in the world, edging out Microsoft, a traditional computing company. Because pretty much every mobile device today comes with ability to capture location data, I am convinced that we are entering a stage where location data will become ubiquitous.
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For the past 20 years, the world has experienced computing through an IBM invention called Personal Computer through the user experience controlled by Microsoft. A generation of users have come to expect to see the world through the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office interface. Microsoft has reaped the benefits by becoming world’s largest technology company, making Bill Gates world’s richest person (second richest as of March 10, 2010) and creating an ecosystem of tens of thousands of technology companies. Today, May 26 2010 marks a very important event in the history of technology. Today Apple has surpassed Microsoft [...]
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Just like in real estate, location plays a huge role in making data relevant. When it comes to computing, we are no longer chained to our office desks and a large Windows machine. The computing device of choice today is an iPhone, or an a new Android based device, not an old and clunky desktop PC. The new generation and the new population uses phones to compute. In India alone, 15 million mobile telephone subscribers were added every months in 2008. That is like getting the entire population of Canada – every man, woman and child – as [...]
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IBM is running a 3-day virtual event for developers focusing on Cloud Computing. I will be presenting a session on Prototyping and Developing Database Applications in the Cloud on Thursday April 8 at 2:30 EST.
Development and Test has emerged as the leading use case for cloud computing because it delivers maximum benefit with minimal risk compared to other cloud computing use cases. When it comes to DB2, we have it fully cloud enabled. I plan to talk about the benefits and the challenges of leveraging the cloud and practical approaches on how to get started right away [...]
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