Philip Russom, Ph.D., is senior director of TDWI Research for data management and is a well-known figure in data warehousing, integration, and quality, having published over 550 research reports, magazine articles, opinion columns, and speeches over a 20-year period. Before joining TDWI in 2005, Russom was an industry analyst covering data management at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group. He also ran his own business as an independent industry analyst and consultant, was a contributing editor with leading IT magazines, and a product manager at database vendors. His Ph.D. is from Yale. You can reach him by email (prussom@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/prussom), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/philiprussom).
By Philip Russom, Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
To help you better understand Hadoop’s evolution into mainstream enterprise usage—and why you should care—I’d like to share with you the series of 25 tweets I recently issued on the topic. I think you’ll find the tweets interesting, because they provide an overview of enterprise Hadoop and its best practices in a form that’s compact, yet amazingly comprehensive.
Every tweet I wrote was a short sound bite or stat bite drawn from my recent TDWI report
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 27, 20150 comments
Attendees of a recent TDWI Webinar asked excellent questions.
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
Recently, on April 14, I broadcast a TDWI Webinar in which I presented some of the findings from my new TDWI report on "Hadoop for the Enterprise." You can download a free copy of the report in a PDF, and you can replay the Webinar. With each link, you may need to scroll down to find what you want. If you’re new to Hadoop, you may wish to first read the 2013 TDWI Best Practices Report Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 15, 20150 comments
Minimizing Risk with the Best Practices for Data Management
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
I recently broadcast a really interesting Webinar with Rob Myers – a technical delivery manager at Informatica – talking about the many critical success factors in projects that migrate or consolidation applications and data. Long story short, we concluded that the many risks and problems associated with migrations and consolidations can be minimized or avoided by following best practices in data management and other IT disciplines. Please allow me to share some of the points Rob and I discussed:
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on March 11, 20150 comments
Evolving Best Practices for Data Management
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
I recently broadcast a really interesting Webinar with David Lyle, a vice president of product strategy at Informatica Corporation. David and I had a “fireside chat” where we discussed one of the most pressing questions in data management today, namely: How can we prepare great data for great analytics, while still leveraging older best practices in data management? Please allow me to summarize our discussion.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on February 2, 20150 comments
Attendees of a recent TDWI Webinar asked excellent questions.
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
Recently, on Tuesday April 15, 2014, I broadcasted a TDWI Webinar in which I presented some of the findings from my new TDWI report, Evolving Data Warehouse Architectures in the Age of Big Data. You can download a free copy of the report in a PDF file. And you can replay the Webinar.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 30, 20140 comments
By Philip Russom
Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
To help you better understand the ongoing evolution of data warehouse architectures and why you should care, I’d like to share with you the series of 35 tweets I recently issued on the topic. I think you’ll find the tweets interesting because they provide an overview of big data management and its best practices in a form that’s compact, yet amazingly comprehensive.
Every tweet I wrote was a short sound bite or stat bite drawn from my recent TDWI report Evolving Data Warehouse Architectures in the Age of Big Data. Many of the tweets focus on a statistic cited in the report, while other tweets are definitions stated in the report.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 15, 20140 comments