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I have tremendous respect for Michael Stonebraker. He is an apt visionary. What I like the most about him is his drive and passion to commercialize the academic concepts. ACM recently published his article “ My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses ." If you haven’t read it, I would encourage you to read it. I agree with some of his assertions and disagree with a few. I am grounded in reality, but I do have a progressive viewpoint on this topic. This is my attempt to bring an alternate perspective to the rapidly changing BI world that I am seeing. I hope the readers take it as constructive criticism. This post has been sitting in my draft folder for a while. I finally managed to publish it. This is Part 1 covering the assertions 1 to 5. The Part 2 with the rest of the assertions will follow in a few days. “Please note that I have a financial interest in several database companies, and may be biased in a number of different ways.” I appreciate Stonebraker’s disclaimer. I do belie...

Today, Trezza Media Group released the latest installment of it's " On The Frontlines " series of government technology reports. The " On The Frontlines " Publications are dedicated to showcasing the positive progress and best practices of the Federal Government Agencies and their strategic partners in meeting the goals of their Mission Programs and supporting the men and women who work on the frontlines. This issue, Cloud Computing in Government , feature the Trends and Best Practices on Cloud Computing in Government.   In this special report, you'll be able to read and view: Cover Story on Cultivating a "Cloud-First Culture" Cloud Drivers with Government Leaders from GSA-OSD & NASA Ames An in-depth Interview with Chris Kemp, CTO, NASA Viewpoints Column-Economic Gains in the Cloud-Kevin Jackson, NJVC Clear Visions of Future Cloud Formations with Subject Matter Expert Cloud Computing Resource Center Section My personal thanks goes out to Mr. T...

Actual numbers vary based on whom you ask, but the general consensus is that the Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics in the cloud is a fast growing market. IDC expects a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.4% through 2013. This growth is primarily driven by two kinds of SaaS applications. The first kind is a purpose-specific analytics-driven application for business processes such as financial planning, cost optimization, inventory analysis etc. The second kind is a self-service horizontal analytics application/tool that allows the customers and ISVs to analyze data and create, embed, and share analysis and visualizations. The category that is still nascent and would require significant work is the traditional general-purpose BI on large data warehouses (DW) in the cloud. For the most enterprises, not only all the DW are on-premise, but the majority of the business systems that feed data into these DW are on-premise as well. If these enterprises were to adopt BI in the clou...

According to Federal News Radio , GSA awarded eleven vendor spots in the first Federal cloud infrastructure-as-a-service award. The winners were: * Apptis Inc. partnered with Amazon Web Services * AT&T * Autonomic Resources partnered with Carpathia, Enomaly and Dell * CGI Federal * Computer Literacy World partnered with Electrosoft, XO Communications and Secure Networks * Computer Technology Consultants partnered with Softlayer, Inc. * Eyak Tech LLC * General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Carpathia * Insight Public Sector partnered with Microsoft * Savvis Federal Systems * Verizon Federal Inc. Under the BPA, each of the vendors will have to go through the certification and accreditation (C&A) process at the moderate level under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). GSA will run the C&A process through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) After they complete FedRAMP certification, all of these offerings will be ...

I am very passionate about the topic of design and design-thinking. When I saw this question on Quora, I decided to post my answer. Following is directly from my answer to this question on Quora : The answer is "Definitely not." It's not about the product design by itself, but it's about applying core and transferable product design skills to product management. Let's break it down: 1) Understanding users: Good product designers have great user research, observation, and listening skills to put themselves into the shoes of a user and understand the real, mostly unspoken and latent, needs of the end users. 2) Being self-critical: If you are a trained designer, you would stay away from self-referential design, which is a root cause for many failed products. Good product designers are self-critical about their approach and the deliverables and are always open to feedback to iterate on their design. 3) Working with designers: If you are a designer, you have great ...

On November 4-5, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold their second Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop. During this event, NIST will report on the status of federal efforts around cloud computing standards for data portability, cloud interoperability, and security. Additionally, NIST will: "...[S]ocialize the NIST strategy to collaboratively develop a Cloud Computing Roadmap among multiple federal and industrial stakeholders, and to advance a dialogue between these groups.  To frame the discussions, the United States Chief Information Officer and Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will present their vision on the first day (November 4, 2010.) Panel discussions will consider the roles of standard organizations and ad-hoc standards in the cloud; need and use of a reference architecture to support cloud adoption; key cloud computing issues and proposed solutions; security in the cloud; and international aspects of clou...

Look out for  " On The Frontlines: The Government Cloud " scheduled for release in November 2010! Trezza Media Group provides high-quality thought leadership media and marketing services to help companies connect to government leaders, channel partners and other industry and technology partners. Their goal is to team with leaders in the government market to provide best-of-breed thought leadership media programs that deliver access to the government market, develop a high level of mindshare, and strengthen brands. ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )