I have always been fond of two things: cooking and analytics. Believe it or not, there are many correlations between cooking your perfect recipe and getting that perfect analytical dataset that drives actions. Yes, we know that when in doubt, follow your heart, or so they say. And when it comes to your enterprise, the parallel should be that whether in doubt or not, always follow the data. Data is the driving force, the fuel…
Over this series of four posts, I explore the keys to a successful data warehouse. Last time, I started with design—a reasonable place to begin! The topic of this post is, build, with operation and maintenance to follow. Even with a beautiful design model in your mind’s eye, the question of how to build the data warehouse raises its ugly head! Ugly, because no matter how lovely the model, implementation is always hobbled by the less…
Gigamon, a company that provides network traffic intelligence to security tools, that I’ve profiled before, announced the acquisition of ICEBRG, a Seattle-based security startup. Now, I receive press releases about acquisitions and mergers all the time, but I took particular notice of this one because it suggests that a theory of mine is beginning to be born out in reality. Over the past few years, both in my Forbes columns and on my research site,…
