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In this end-of-the-year edition of the Talking Data podcast, Senior Executive Editor Ed Scannell joined me to speak with Mike Matchett, founder and principal analyst of the Small World Big Data consultancy, as we rambled through some of the signal events of big data in 2018. Mergers and acquisitions, naturally, tend to be the stepping stones when you look back at the path just traveled. Cloudera and Hortonworks, IBM and Red Hat – these deals set the tone for our end-of-year big data ruminations. But what rises in importance in our podcasters’ ponderings, are not the mergers in their dollar terms but instead the mergers as they reveal the underlying currents and eddies of telling trends. What surfaces? *Hadoop-centric big data analytics is morphing into machine learning and deep learning analytics. *It is not that the shortcomings of Hadoop data processing have been solved, however. *Rather, the vendors have declared victory, and moved on to the next world to conquer – the more mysterious one of AI, machine learning and statistics safely beyond the layperson’s ken. It’s happened before. *AI is what you do with big data. The Web and cloud have become irresistible honeypots for said data, and the result is that the balance of power – for data, IT and business — is moving to the cloud. *A long view would say that it’s taken more than 10 years for cloud computing to become an overnight success, and that assorted after effects will play out for some time to come. In the podcast we talk about the pendulum effect, of which 1990s client/server computing is a ready example. In that case there was a swing away from central IT, which was called “the glass house.” The era saw independent departments within businesses beginning to set their own technology courses. We see that with cloud today. A pendulum swing has put more technology decision making in the hands of developers within lines of business. They can use credit cards to start projects, and they can get very high-end systems via top cloud providers. We may look back one day and see things shifting back toward central IT. If so, it will no more resemble today’s central IT than today’s resembles the IT shop of the glass house days. The recent years have been topsy-turvy – and not just on the big data front. Thanks for hanging with us on the Talking Data podcast. – Jack Vaughan The post Currents – Talking Data End-of-Year Podcast 2018 appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes. The post Currents – Talking Data End-of-Year Podcast 2018 appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes.

As some TechTarget reporters were finishing their last podcasts for the year, we sat down briefly and tried to view the longer picture, to look through the glass darkly toward the past. Now, you are taught not to dwell on history from your first days in this field called journalism; people can buy books if that is what they want. But a calendar with days rapidly dwindling might lead you to do just that, and best editorial practices be dammed. And the tentative conclusion on some of our parts was that the big mergers of 2018 don’t stack up to those of yore. That is even though the transactions hit some pretty heady dollar amounts. They don’t really seem on par with the big mergers of the past 20 years, these jaundiced observers ventured. IBM buying Lotus, Oracle buying Sun — those were some game changers. They signaled big industry shifts or put bookends on identifiable tech eras. Maybe it was the outsized nature of some of the characters involved. An ongoing move to cloud computing is behind IBM’s bid for Red Hat, or Microsoft’s deal for GitHub, which are the topics discussed in this podcast. The move to cloud now seems predestined, but how it will actually transpire for these noted player will be determined by customers. Stay tuned. This is part of a series of end-of-the year podcasts. I joined Senior Executive Editor Ed Scannell and analyst Mike Matchett, principal and founder of the Big Data Small World consultancy, for this  SearchDataManagement-hosted look-back at 2018 podcast. The post Both IBM and Microsoft get open source religion in big 2018 acquisitions appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes. The post Both IBM and Microsoft get open source religion in big 2018 acquisitions appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes.

New apps for cloud have found a home on Azure’s cloud database. What about existing apps? On closer inspection it appears that there is work ahead. At PASS 2018, Craig Stedman encountered signs of progress therein. Kicking off the event was Microsoft’s database group leader Roland Kumar who, Stedman reports, discussed managed instances of SQL Server on the cloud that more functionally equivalate with downhome SQL Server on premises. In any case, the pace is quick. Check out the latest Talking Data Podcast and related SearchSQLServer coverage for all things PASS. – Jack Vaughan The post More things PASS appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes. The post More things PASS appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes.

This podcast considers how likely it is for existing users of Oracle and Microsoft to move to the cloud, as well as what obstacles they may face if they make the leap. Senior Executive Editor Craig Stedman tells us that’s still a work somewhat in progress. And, I get a chance to provide a take on Oracle’s comparable moves, hearkening again to my days at Oracle Open World in October.  Download the podcast and learn as we compare notes from our recent travels. Be there when “worlds collide.” – Jack Vaughan The post Looking at Oracle and Microsoft and recent showcase events appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes. The post Looking at Oracle and Microsoft and recent showcase events appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes.

Last month we ventured West to cover Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Now, in a Talking Data Podcast edition recorded live on tape from San Francisco’s Moscone Center, intrepid reporters Jack Vaughan and David Essex discuss what they saw. Some of it was familiar – as always, Oracle’s Larry Ellison delivered a notable keynote. Some of it was new – Ellison’s discussion was much about cyber trust, impenetrable barriers and the gremlins lurking in the cloud. The post Larry Ellison’s cloud-borne cyberthreats and bots, oh my! appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes. The post Larry Ellison’s cloud-borne cyberthreats and bots, oh my! appeared first on Talking Data Podcast » Episodes.