HomeAboutContactFeedsSeptember 7, 2014        An idealized log management and analysis system — from whom?I’ve talked with many companies recently that believe they are:Focused on building a great data management and analytic stack for log management …… unlike all the other companies that might be saying the same thing   …… and certainly unlike expensive, poorly-scalable Splunk …… and also unlike less-focused vendors of analytic RDBMS (which are also expensive) and/or Hadoop distributions.At best, I think such competitive claims are overwrought. Still, it’s a genuinely important subject and opportunity, so let’s consider what a great log management and analysis system might look like.Much of this discussion could apply to machine-generated data in general. But right now I think more players are doing product management with an explicit conception either of log management or event-series analytics, so for this post I’ll share that focus too.A short answer might be “Splunk, but with more analytic functionality and more scalable performance, at lower cost, plus numerous coupons for free pizza.” A more constructive and bottoms-up approach might start with:   Read moreCategories: Aleri and Coral8, Business intelligence, Cloudera, Complex event processing (CEP), Data models and architecture, Data warehousing, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Hadapt, Hadoop, Hortonworks, HP and Neoview, IBM and DB2, Log analysis, MapR, Microsoft and SQL*Server, Oracle, Platfora, Predictive modeling and advanced analytics, SAP AG, Schema on need, SenSage, Splunk, Teradata, Vertica Systems, Web analytics, WibiData, Workload management2 CommentsAugust 31, 2014        Notes from a visit to TeradataI spent a day with Teradata in Rancho Bernardo last week. Most of what we discussed is confidential, but I think the non-confidential parts and my general impressions add up to enough for a post.First, let’s catch up with some personnel gossip. So far as I can tell:Scott Gnau runs most of Teradata’s development, product management, and product marketing, the big exception being that …… Darryl McDonald run the apps part (Aprimo and so on), and no longer is head of marketing.Oliver Ratzesberger runs Teradata’s software development.Jeff Carter has returned to his roots and runs the hardware part, in place of Carson Schmidt.Aster founders Mayank Bawa and Tasso Argyros have left Teradata (perhaps some earn-out period ended).Carson is temporarily running Aster development (in place of Mayank), and has some sort of evangelism role waiting after that.With the acquisition of Hadapt, Teradata gets some attention from Dan Abadi. Also, they’re retaining Justin Borgman.The biggest change in my general impressions about Teradata is that they’re having smart thoughts about the cloud. At least, Oliver is. All details are confidential, and I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to b