Baseball, the cloud, and big data

Posted by Larry Neumann on Sep 9, 2011

As the release of the upcoming movie Moneyball approaches, it’s inevitable that we’ll be hearing much more about baseball’s sabermetrics. ReadWriteWeb is out front of the topic with a nice article today on How Big Data and the iPad have Fundamentally Changed Baseball. This article ties together three of my favorite topics – big data analytics, cloud computing infrastructure and baseball....
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Filed under Cloud Computing, Cross Industry
Tagged with analytics, baseball, big data, real time

Reason 4: Messaging appliances rack up assists like Wayne Gretzky

Posted by Larry Neumann on Feb 17, 2011

This is part 4 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. When it comes to offensive prowess in sports, Wayne Gretzky is the gold standard. From his earliest years he was a scoring machine, famously scoring 378 goals in a season at the age of...
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Filed under Appliances, Hardware, Messaging
Tagged with BPM, CEP, data grids, distributed database, real time, top 10, Wayne Gretzky

Spotlight on Risk Management

Posted by Larry Neumann on Jan 23, 2009

There is a good story Advanced Trading this week about the challenges of applying yesterday’s risk management solutions to today’s market requirements. The whole article is a good read, but you can cut to the chase and just read the summary: There are three specific data pitfalls that can obscure risk analysis at the portfolio manager and risk officer levels, according to Adam...
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Filed under Capital Markets, Financial Services, Information Providers, Messaging
Tagged with low-latency, real time, risk management