Cloud Computing

5 Critical Trends For The Data Professional of the Future

5 Critical Trends For The Data Professional of the Future

No one can predict the future.
And yet it seems as if we all tend to worry about what the future will hold for us. As data professionals we are bombarded every day with new concepts and buzzwords like ‘cloud’, ‘big data’, ‘PaaS’, and ‘Snooki’. For many server and database admins these terms represent an unknown [...]

The Santa Cruz Experiment: Why You Should Care About Big Data

[This was first posted to Technorati on February 6th, 2012. You can read the original here.] I keep hearing the term “Big Data”. My old-school IT instincts always makes me think of inefficiently storing two-letter state abbreviation codes inside of an nvarchar(50) field because that’s the default data type you get when creating a database table from [...]

12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012

12 Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012

It’s the end of the year and already I am seeing the usual blog posts that either reflect on the year that was, or are pondering the year to come. I thought about writing another post covering all of the things that didn’t happen to me this past year but since I’ve already done that [...]