by Tokutek | Aug 31, 2011 | MySQL
One of President John Kennedy’s most memorable phrases is “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what can you do for your country”. I got to thinking about this over lunch with a fellow colleague in the big data space. After comparing named customers...
by Tokutek | Aug 26, 2011 | MySQL
According to a recent MIT Sloan Management Review study, top performing organizations use analytics 5 times more than lower performers. That’s pretty astounding. And while we all know about the ocean/lake/waves/(your favorite water analogy) of Big Data we struggle...
by Tokutek | Jul 25, 2011 | MySQL
We were happy to see a lot of folks from Japan on Twitter this weekend having a discussion about MySQL and Tokutek. While we always endeavor to explain ourselves as simply as possible, hearing what users and peers have to say and ask in their native language is very...
by Tokutek | May 16, 2011 | MySQL
SoMoLo Data – Social, Mobile, and Local A Review of MassTLC’s “The Global Impact of Mobility” event this past Friday MassTLC celebrated World Enterprise Mobility Day on Friday by hosting an event near MIT on the “Global Impact of Mobility”. The event included...
by Martin.FarachColton | May 6, 2011 | MySQL
On April 1st, the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where I am a professor, held an open house. I gave a talk called “Elephants on a Trapeze: Keeping Big Data Agile”. The talk is an introduction to performance issues related to big data...
by Tokutek | Mar 25, 2011 | MySQL
Big Data + Big Ideas = Big Advantage “Big Data” is the new buzzword in IT. Doing a Google search will yield over 1M hits. In Boston, there were two back-to-back Big Data events last month. On Wednesday in New York, there was another Big Data event. Of course, everyone...
by Tokutek | Mar 23, 2011 | MySQL
The Big Data Opportunity “What if you could analyze every transaction, capture insights from every customer interaction, and didn’t have to wait for months to get data from the field?”- McKinsey Column, Financial Times Despite this tremendous opportunity, MySQL...
by Tokutek | Feb 24, 2011 | MySQL
John Partridge, President and CEO of Tokutek, sits down to talk about MySQL performance and scalability with the Wikibon Project’s Dave Vellante at last week’s MassTLC Big Data Summit....
by Tokutek | Feb 18, 2011 | MySQL
This was an interesting week for data discussions in the Boston area. There were two back-to-back events this week — Big Data on Wednesday night hosted by TiE Boston and Channeling the Big Data Tsunami by MassTLC on Thursday morning. With desperate sounding...
