CERN is a bit more relaxed – CouchDB to handle their data

by Val Vlădescu on August 27, 2010

Cern Shot

CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) never ceases to amaze me. In the need of a solution that could handle large amounts of unstructured data quickly in a distributed environment (hint – think NoSQL) they chose CouchDB. After over 1 year of extensive testing coming up with this choice for their Data Management and Workflow Management (DMWM) projects is a big vouch for the main product of Couchio.

Still, will this be enough of an argument to raise the interest of enterprise organizations sharing the same needs, yet relying on RDBMS just for the sake of the learning curve?

What do you think?

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BI In the Cloud webinar

by Val Vlădescu on August 26, 2010

Last evening I attended the BI in the cloud webinar hosted by Tibco1 – one of the market leaders in SOA and Business Process Management software.

The webinar targeted startups and traditional software vendors alike. The great value of the presentation is highly visible to those developers who are starting to bring collaborative user experiences and  features into the heart of their BI offerings.

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Hello world!

August 18, 2010

I have decided it is time to start focusing on the subjects and topics that really are of great interest to me. This weblog is becoming a biz blog leaving aside the personal postings. All the old posts go to http://old.vvladescu.com Read more about the reasons for change and my whereabouts in the About page [...]

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VMWorld 2010–A world of virtualization

June 20, 2010

For those of you interested in Virtualization technologies, registrations for VMWorld 2010 are now open. Follow this link to register for VMworld 2010 before 23 July and receive the  €200 early bird discount!   Also, the VMworld 2010 Content Catalogue now available online, to learn more about the Sessions, Hands-on Labs and speakers that make [...]

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