Drill to Detail Ep.6 'Data Capital and the Economics of Big Data' with Special Guest Paul Sonderegger

Mark Rittman is joined by special guest Paul Sonderegger, Oracle's Big Data Strategist, to talk about Data Capital and the economic impact of big data.

Drill to Detail Ep. 5 'SnowflakeDB, and is Data Modeling Dead?' with Special Guest Kent Graziano

In this episode Mark Rittman is joined by Kent Graziano to answer the questions "Is data modeling now dead", and "is SnowflakeDB the future of analytic data engines in the cloud?"

• Better Data Modeling: An Introduction to Agile Data Engineering Using Data Vault 2.0
• Better Data Modeling: Tips for Enhancing Your Use of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
• Kent Graziano Blog
• Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with Data Vault 2.0
• Snowflake Computing
• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2016
• Gartner press release on their "modern BI platform"

Drill to Detail Ep.4 'Reference Architectures Revisited' with Special Guest Andrew Bond

In this episode I'm joined by Andrew Bond from Oracle's Enterprise Architecture team, to look back at the Oracle Information Management & Big Data Reference Architecture we collaborated on back in 2014 and ask ourselves what's changed, what parts of the architecture had the most impact and adoption in the market, and what are the challenges Andrew and his team see customers trying to overcome when deploying big data applications in the enterprise.

Drill to Detail Ep.3 'Apache Kudu and Cloudera's Analytic Platform' with Special Guest Mike Percy

Drill to Detail Ep.2. 'Future of SQL on Hadoop', With Special Guest Dan McClary

In the second episode of Drill to Detail, I'm joined by special guest Dan McClary, ex-Oracle Big Data SQL product manager and now working at Google on storage and big data projects. Dan and I discuss the state of the SQL-on-Hadoop market and where he's seeing the innovation; how the mega-vendors are contributing to, extending and competing with the Hadoop ecosystem; and what he's seeing coming out of the likes of Google, Yahoo and other Hadoop innovators that may well make its way into the next Apache Hadoop project.