Neil has just finished some research work on data warehouse performance for our friends at Teradata published as Meeting Demands for Data Warehouse Performance.  This white paper discusses how expanding operational roles for data warehouses, particularly in terms of supporting operational decision making and enterprise decision management, require dynamic workload capabilities on the data warehouse [...]

The folks at Kognitio gave me a quick overview of their WX2 product recently. WX2 is aimed at three distinct areas:

Software platform for high performance analytics
Data as a Service - it is being offered hosted to SMBs for instance
Data Warehouse Appliances

WX2 came out of the UK and is the end result of [...]

Terry from Pinnacle Entertainment (a gaming company) was up after lunch on The Business Drivers Behind Creating an Enterprise Data Architecture in the Gaming Industry. Pinnacle has 12 properties, none in Vegas, and competes with the likes of Harrah’s (used as a case study by Stephen Brobst yesterday). Pinnacle started with a marketing data warehouse, [...]