Recently I read somewhere this statement – As we end 2017 and look ahead
to 2018, topics that are top of mind for data professionals are the growing
range of data management mandates, including the EU’s new General Data
Protection Regulation that is directed at personal data and privacy, the
growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in
enterprise applications, the need for better security in light of the
onslaught of hacking cases, and the ability to leverage the expanding
Internet of Things.
Here are the key areas as we look ahead:
Business owners demand outcomes – not just a data lake to store all kinds
of data in its native format and API’s. Data Science must produce results
– Play and Explore is not enough. Learn to ask the right questions.
Visualization of analytics from search. Everyone wants Real Time – Days
and weeks too slow, need ... (more)
If you are part of the cloud development community, you certainly know about
“serverless computing,” almost a misnomer. Because it implies there are
no servers which is untrue. However the servers are hidden from the
developers. This model eliminates operational complexity and increases
developer productivity.
We came from monolithic computing to client-server to services to
microservices to the serverless model. In other words, our systems have
slowly “dissolved” from monolithic to function-by-function. Software is
developed and deployed as individual functions – a first-class ... (more)
This morning Jeff Bezos beat his nemesis from the same town Bill Gates as the
richest man on the planet with his worth exceeding $90B. This was due to a
huge surge in Amazon’s stock price (over $128 rise) to $1100 plus today.
Their 3Q results came out yesterday and Amazon grew its revenue by 34% and
profits inched up as well. There were fears that heavy investments in new
warehouses and hiring workers would push it to a loss. This year Amazon’s
stock started at $750. What a run!
Here are the numbers. Revenue soared 34% to a record $43.74B, a first for a
non-holiday period, as th... (more)
There is a lot of noise on Blockchain these days. Back in May, 2015 The
Economist wrote a whole special on Bockchain and it said, “The
“blockchain” technology that underpins bitcoin, a sort of peer-to-peer
system of running a currency, is presented as a piece of innovation on a par
with the introduction of limited liability for corporations, or private
property rights, or the internet itself”. It all started after the 2008
financial crisis, when a seminal paper written by Satoshi Nakamoto on
Halloween day (Oct 31, 2008) caught the attention of many (the real identity
of the aut... (more)
I just went to a couple of sessions at the API World going on at the San Jose
Convention center. I heard all kinds of new terms thrown within a span of
couple of hours – the new API driven economy, iSaaS (integration software
as a service), iPaaS (integration platform as a service), APIM (API
management), BaaS (Backend as a service), etc. Then there was confusing &
overlapping mixture of ideas in microservices, containers, connectors,
API’s..all in the space of system integration. There were lots of young
software developers at this conference and booths from companies I have nev... (more)
Jnan Dash is Senior Advisor at EZShield Inc., Advisor at ScaleDB and Board Member at Compassites Software Solutions. He has lived in Silicon Valley since 1979. Formerly he was the Chief Strategy Officer (Consulting) at Curl Inc., before which he spent ten years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology till 2002. He was responsible for setting Oracle's core database and application server product directions and interacted with customers worldwide in translating future needs to product plans. Before that he spent 16 years at IBM. He blogs at 
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