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November 07, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Trends Changing Data Management

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There was a recent article in Yahoo News regarding trends changing data management. It was a little "I've heard it before" in the sense that it started out with the line, "The data-management pendulum is swinging away from distributed 'islands' of individual line-of-business systems toward massive, consolidated systems..." and I though it was a pretty difficult read, but there were a few lines that caught my eye.

IBM's vision is ambitious. "They're bringing together information up and down the stack," says Connie Moore, a vice president at Forrester Research. "Whether it's metadata management or information quality, I don't think any vendor has the depth and breadth that IBM has in information infrastructure."

IBM executives still insist the company is not in the apps business, but the changes inherent in information management and SOA will inevitably draw IBM into the apps domain.

IBM, who doesn't consider themselves in the app business is starting to think "the application way" in this new Grid / SOA / Virtualization paradigm. I believe this adds credence to my "Grid Sandwich" view of getting people to approach the Grid / SOA world both bottom up AND top down.

Posted by Greg Nawrocki on November 7, 2006 02:02 PM

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