The View From 25B
Toe in the Cloud
Thursday, August 26th 2010 by Emma McGrattan
The Ingres VectorWise beta program garnered a lot of interest from existing Ingres customers and partners and from shiny new prospects looking for a BI solution that could provide real-time analytics without breaking the bank. In a couple of cases the beta roll-out was stalled pending approval and procurement of hardware. Getting feedback from real-world scenarios is crucial to... Read More
Ketan Karia
OPENing in the Cloud
Wednesday, August 25th 2010 by Ketan Karia
In theory cloud computing should be a development playground for Ingres’ partners and customers. By its very nature open source and innovation should be at the heart of cloud computing, however in the past few months I have started to become concerned that actually the cloud could be “the mother of all lock-ins”. That term... Read More
Behind the Curtain of OSS
Ingres VectorWise 1.0
Tuesday, June 08th 2010 by Fred Gallagher
We have been working for two years now to deliver Ingres VectorWise. With the first release, which we welcome today, we at Ingres are making a statement in the database industry and about the direction of Ingres as a company. Ingres VectorWise proves that open innovation can deliver a breakthrough product. And, we have established... Read More
Shine on Open Source
Labour government has succeeded in lower gov IT costs
Wednesday, March 17th 2010 by Steve Shine
As we warm up to a general election, I want to dwell on the positive moves we have seen from the current government in trying to achieving the cost savings in public sector IT spend. Last year the UK Government CIO, John Suffolk pushed out a world leading (in my opinion) policy revision on Open Standards,... Read More