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Shawn Rogers

Thank you for visiting my blog. I am a Cofounder & Technical Advisor here at the BeyeNETWORK. Having covered the business intelligence and data warehousing industry for more than 15 years, I'm looking forward to a more interactive form of communication with all of you. Please share your comments and thoughts!

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Shawn Rogers has more than 19 years of hands-on IT experience with a focus on Internet-enabled technology. In 2004 he cofounded the BeyeNETWORK and held the position of Executive Vice President and Editorial Director. Shawn guided the company's international growth strategy and helped the BeyeNETWORK grow to 18 web sites around the world making it the largest and most read community covering the business intelligence, data warehousing, performance management and data integration space.

Today he continues his relationship with the Network in the capacity of Technology Advisor and remains a partner in the firm.

Prior to Cofounding the BeyeNETWORK Shawn was Internet Business Development Director at Thomson Media (now SourceMedia), President of Achieve Communications and a partner at DMReview magazine (now Information Management) where he was Vice President as well as Publisher and Editorial Director of DMReview.com a leading business intelligence and data warehousing web site.

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HP is rolling out a new version of HP Neoview today. The HP Neoview Advantage has been upgraded on both the software and hardware fronts. The hardware change is to the HP Integrity BladeSystem giving the solution a more modular design and allowing for a smaller footprint especially on larger configurations. HP has added more power to address real-time demands coming from their customer base by using the Neoview Transporter product to supply the appliance with a streaming real-time information feed. Improvements in I/O have provided for faster scans and higher performance on complex queries.

The best part of the offering is that the system is designed to allow for mixed work loads and can handle both transactional and analytical demands at the same time. Its a true appliance solution as its a pre-configured hardware and software bundled solution.

I'm glad to see an announcement from HP on Neoview the industry is hearing a lot from the competition in this space Oracle, Teradata, Netezza and IBM have all had large user conferences in the past 6 weeks unveiling new strategies around appliance style solutions. The competition is getting fast and furious in the 4th quarter of 2009.



Posted November 4, 2009 5:47 AM
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Wow! the day just blew by and I didn't manage to get anything online so brace for a string of news updates because the information flowing from Oracle OpenWorld is streaming at high speed.  Lots of great announcements. I have four interviews scheduled for the morning so look for coverage there as well.

I have to say my favorite announcement this week was the $10 Million Dollar Challenge issued by Oracle to IBM. Here's the deal:


Your Company Could Win $10 Million!

If your Oracle database application doesn't run at least twice as fast on SUN hardware as on IBM's fastest computer, your company could win $10 million from Oracle. Even IBM is welcome to enter the $10 Million Challenge!


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My favorite part is the where they say IBM can enter too. Larry Ellison gets knocked around a lot for being aggressive and ultra competitive but I have to admit I am really liking it. I'm tired of the same old tired CEO speak littered with phrases like "we have our heads down and are riding out the tough economy" or giving guidance to Wall Street on expected soft performance etc. Ellison has the attitude of GAME ON!! lets be competitive and do battle, the heck with the economy I'm buying Sun and GoldenGate and I'm getting in to the hardware business too. Leadership like this is what makes winners and Mr. Ellison doesn't like to lose.

I think the attitude is well timed, and has added a level of energy to an event like OpenWorld that can only come from a charismatic CEO. It will be entertaining to see what the responses are from Oracle competitors especially IBM.

Posted October 14, 2009 5:28 AM
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Things continue to evolve in a positive direction for Dataupia Corporation; they are announcing the placement of Tony Sirianni as president and Chief Executive Officer. Founder Foster Hinshaw, and CTO John O'Brien, will continue to drive the technology side of the company. Sirianni brings over 18 years of Business Intelligence experience to the company, his most recent experience coming from Cognos as SVP Worldwide Field Operations.

The addition of Sirianni marks a turning point for Dataupia as it leaves its start up roots behind and aligns the company for the next step forward. Sirianni's background is focused on revenue growth and go to market strategies that will surely enhance the good things already in place at Dataupia.

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Posted March 16, 2009 4:00 AM
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Kognitio announced a new customer win this week: the National Center for Genome Resources is using the Kognitio solution to process multiple terabytes of sequencing data.

Kognitio is finding a great opportunity in the bioinformatics field and it seems to be setting them apart from many of their competitors. They've done a solid job of not only meeting the analytic needs of NCGR but also positioning themselves as a partner for the future needs of the group. The ability to bring specialty or highly focused analytics to this space is a good move for the company.

Kognitio is doing a great job of executing on their expansion into the US market and has now announced several high profile clients in the US. With additions to the marketing, sales and executive ranks here in the states they are going to be a significant player as more end users look to the market for innovative solutions. I have to say that I'm also a big fan of the flexibility of the solution it includes a Data warehouse as a Service (DaaS) offering that can be hosted on either side of your firewall.

Posted March 12, 2009 4:58 AM
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The timing of this lawsuit is interesting as it seems that XPrime waited to sue DATAllegro and founder Stuart Frost until after Microsoft announced its plan to acquire the company***. The complaint was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Diego filed by Cary A. Jardin, the founder of XPrime, he claimed that DATAllegro CEO Stuart Frost used his access privileges while he was at XPrime in 2003 to steal information about technology that Jardin was then in the process of patenting. The patent titled "System and Method for Generating and Processing Results Data in a Distributed System," was granted to Jardin on February 13, 2007.

ComputerWorld reports that:

According to the suit, Frost "attempted to convert Jardin's inventions to his own by filing with the USPTO patent applications in the distributed database architecture field the same subject matter as Jardin's intellectual property." Moreover, the suit alleges that Frost "used and incorporated Jardin's intellectual property into Datallegro's products," adding that the unauthorized use of the technology "continues to this day."

Stuart Frost has responded to the filing here at BeyeBlogs.com on the DATAllegro blog.

***According to Benjamin Romano at the Seattle Times the attorney for Jardin stated "Because of the severity of the apparent infringement, the issue was raised as soon as possible after thoroughly investigating the matter."

A couple other perspectives on the story can be found here:

Tags: Datallegro, Stuart Frost, XPrime


Posted August 14, 2008 5:21 AM
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John O'Brien CTO and Co-founder of Dataupia is up briefing the Independent Analyst Platform. John is highlighting three of the differences that the Dataupia Satori brings to the market.

1. Non-disruptive
2. Continuously scalable
3. Highly cost effective

Another upside to Dataupia is that it is a very "green machine"
The ideal market for Dataupia is right in the mainstream data warehousing space ODS, routine business intelligence and long term data needs arena.

John is sharing the 36 month plan for the company and it looks good. Dataupia got its early traction in the telco market working with firms like Subex, Sendio, Tektronix and others. The massive amounts of Call Data Records (CDR) records collected by the telcom industry makes them a great fit for an appliance solution like Satori Server.

Lastly, the aim of Dataupia isn't to come in and "rip and replace" your existing database installation the appliance is actually designed to site next/over your existing architecture and add power to what you already have. The upside here is that you don't waste money by tossing out what you have and as you scale the Satori Server environment you see significant cost savings over the traditional route of upgrading Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.


Phoenix Temperature Update: 109 F at 4:00PM

Tag: Business Intelligence, Independent Analyst Platform, Dataupia


Posted July 2, 2008 4:35 PM
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"All Data is Equal and Deserves the Right to Drive Business" The folks at Dataupia have come up with a witty web page that you should check out today complete with a Declaration of Data Independence.

Check out the data injustice videos while your there. Magic 8 Ball is my favorite.

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Tags: Dataupia, data, business intelligence


Posted June 27, 2008 9:47 AM
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Kickfire launched this past week and jumped into the already deep waters of the appliance space. They have not yet gone GA but are working towards a fall release and are presently in beta with several clients. A couple interesting things about their approach is they are focusing on MySQL and they have added a hardware chip component to the appliance the is especially designed to supercharge SQL.

To make sure they are seen as the real deal they joined forces with MySQL parent company Sun to set a new TPC-H benchmark. They set a new Dollar Barrier mark as well as setting a new performance record in the non-clustered category for 100GB. The overall price performance of this system was $0.70/QphH@100GB USD, which is the best in the industry.

Kickfire seems to be getting the performance from a combination of column store format, intelligent indexing and the SQL Chip I mentioned above. They feel they have made important steps towards reducing the effects of the Von Neumann bottleneck.

Tags: Data warehouse appliance, business intelligence, Kickfire


Posted April 22, 2008 5:02 AM
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Teradata announced today that they are now offering a new family of platforms designed to address needs from entry level to active enterprise level. This is a significant move on Teradata's part and it's aimed directly at the appliance market that has been nibbling away at Teradata's market share over the past few years.

I grabbed a piece of the press release below, the biggest thing here is that you can get into Teradata for $67K per terabyte!!!

• Teradata 550 SMP (symmetric multiprocessing), with a price of $67,000(1) per terabyte, a departmental data warehouse.

• Teradata 2500, priced at $125,000(1) per terabyte, an entry-level data warehouse for companies that are just starting out or for those with other analytical platform requirements in their enterprises.

• Teradata 5550, an active data warehouse-class platform, starts at $200,000(1) per terabyte depending on the performance and availability needs of the customer. The Teradata 5550 and Teradata 12 provide up to two times the system performance over their respective predecessors.

Looks like Teradata is having fun with their new found corporate freedom, great move!

Tags: Teradata, data warehouse appliance


Posted April 21, 2008 2:32 PM
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It’s a DBMS, It’s an appliance, It’s an accelerator! Yes, it ParAccel!

That’s a fun way to start a blog post. I got to hang out with the folks from ParAccel this past week at TDWI and it's interesting to see how they are positioning themselves in the market. While everybody and their mother is fast claiming to be an appliance Kim Stanick Vice President of Marketing isn't focusing on fitting into a category she has ParAccel focused on solving problems. I was impressed with the flexibility of the solution and its technical abilities that open the door for numerous ways to use the solution.

The core product is the Celerian Query Engine a column oriented SQL engine optimized for Business Intelligence workloads ParAccel utilizes the columnar logic, compression and the ability to do the work in-memory to save its clients a lot of time and money.

They have great success stories in the International Telco space, E-commerce, logistics management, information services and restaurants chains. The Telco reference is a great one, ParAccel took a report that previously took 60 hours to run down to 2.5 minutes.

As I mentioned above the solution comes in many flavors to fit your specific headaches, "Maverick Mode" is a standalone implementation that works much like a DW or ODS, "Amigo Mode" puts the solutions alongside the database of record (SQL Server today, Oracle coming in 2008), and allows you to direct the "ugly" queries to ParAccel instead of the production environment and the variations go on from there.

David Ehrlich CEO of ParAccel podcasted with us this week so you can listen here if you'd like. I recommend you take a look at the solution.

Tags: Business Intelligence, ParAccel, DBMS, Appliance, Accelerator, Kim Stanick, David Ehrlich


Posted August 29, 2007 7:18 AM
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