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ISVs Can Reduce Costs By Moving To the Cloud
For a change of pace, and to try something new, I decided to try my hand at writing a less technical post. Here goes nothin…
SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition (codenamed “Fuji”, currently in beta) is designed to enable ISVs to take business applications to the cloud without compromising the functionality or quality of their products [...]
Using Cassandra as a cloud file system
On Wednesday this week (November 2) I had the opportunity to listen to Ken Salem of the University of Waterloo present a lecture entitled “A Scalable, Available Storage Tier for RDBMS” to the Database Systems Group at UW’s Cheriton School of Computer Science. This joint work, with co-authors Ashraf Aboulnaga and post-doctoral fellow Rui Liu, [...]
SQL Anywhere at Insight Out
On 20 October I had the privilege to address the 2011 Insight Out Conference in Tokyo, Japan, where the majority of attendees are Japanese business application developers and the speakers are drawn from a cross-section of the database industry, with Oracle, Microsoft, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Sybase represented. Insight Out is spearheaded by Hiroki Mizokami of [...]
Behind Every "Cloud" There are Real People
To many of us today, the “cloud” seems like a bit of magic. We often simply use the services of a cloud based system without really thinking about where the cloud is located, or who keeps it running. Ultimately, behind every “cloud”, there are real people managing real machines. What [...]
Fuji is Released to Beta!
Fuji is now released into beta!
Fuji is the code name for our new SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition product, designed to enable easy management of multi-tenant, hosted applications by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). We announced Fuji in September at our Techwave 2011 user conference, indicating in the press release that the software would be [...]
Development Mindset on New Products
Earlier this week I was directed to an essay, written over 10 years ago by Paul Graham, called “Being Popular“. Graham is writing primarily about computer languages, however I think his observations in section 10 of the essay are equally appropriate to any software development project.
To write [...]
The Importance of Backups!
I would like to relate to you a true story. Two weeks ago, our annual user conference, Techwave 2011, occurred in Las Vegas, co-located with SAP TechEd. I was scheduled to deliver 2 different sessions on SQL Anywhere, as well as participate in the Data Management Plenary session. I had created [...]
Things That Make You Say: "Wow!"
Here is the question: As a technology professional, who lives and breathes in the fast paced technology industry, how many times does something actually make you stop and say “Wow, is that ever cool!”? Perhaps some new device paradigm such as the tablet, or some very interesting new piece of software. I’m going [...]
Join the Wolf Pack in Vegas Baby!
Sybase TechWave is back in Vegas Baby!.. The glowing light in the hot Mojave Desert, Las Vegas, is this week the location for the hottest & brightest technologies in the IT industry… presented by Sybase & SAP.
Check out the TechWave Website
For me I have been involved in the preparation and planning of the Mobility Track [...]
SQL Anywhere Forum hits 1000 questions!
Today, August 12, our SQL Anywhere web forum at http://sqlanywhere-forum.sybase.com received it’s 1000th question.
Breck Carter started this forum and has shepherded it through it’s many growing pains, and continues to be very active. Thank you Breck!
Some interesting stats on the top non-Sybase users of the forum:
16 non-Sybase users on 1st user page of 35
The top [...]