I’LL HAVE THE DATA SOUP PLEASE We had data yesterday, we have data today, and we’ll have data tomorrow.  In fact, we’ll have a lot more data tomorrow.  We’re adding data to our lives at what seems to be an exponential rate. I belong to the Low Latency, Big Data group on Linkedin, here’s the link – Low Latency, Big Data.  There are some heavy hitters out there and we’ve been working together on a definition for big data. WHAT EXACTLY IS BIG DATA? There are a couple of working definitions in progress in the group, but the one...

As much as I disagree with much of what Curt Monash writes, he did actually ask a good question recently in his post, “Renaming CEP… or not” Without getting into a rehash of the hash over there, let’s look at things a bit differently.  Let’s talk about what CEP is not. I left trading to join a firm called NEON.  I was an early investor in this company, my mentor had started the firm, and to me it looked like the cat’s meow.  It was a great time, a lot of people made a ton of money, and I was introduced into the world of software via Enterprise Application...