Infobright Blog

We are experiencing a new wave of big data technology innovation? This is certainly coming in the form of low cost, simple to use, yet fast and powerful columnar database technology, now hitting the mainstream. It’s great to know that big data innovation is certainly alive and kicking. We see it every day where our customers and partners are achieving amazing results with their use of both our community and enterprise edition of Infobright.

Clearly we are in for a huge wave of big data as the Internet continues to expand and more and more data is pushed in and out of new devices including our televisions and portable devices. This will continue to come in forms of both unstructured and structured data. Furthermore, most new products and new releases of existing big data products are being developed to rapidly respond to community and end user requests at a much faster pace than ever before which has resulted in a feverous pace. This is certainly the case here at Infobright.

One common question that comes up when thinking about the subject of innovation and big data is how do I convince my database team to investigate and pursue new big data innovations like Infobright. Well, it is quite simple; you do what you normally do when considering the adoption of new technologies in order to help your business. You do your homework, you build your business case, you get customer validation of the concepts, you showcase the potential business benefits and finally, you build a very simple and early conceptual design or demonstration that showcases the business benefits the company will see in a very short period of time.  The good news is that there are many community users willing to share their experiences with products like Infobright. What company leaders wouldn’t want the opportunity to showcase innovation alongside core business benefits in front of their internal customer, partner and community?? It is what absolutely drives our industry, differentiation and business value through the conception and adoption of innovation in our products and services.

We are already seeing great examples of the use of big data infrastructure technology to expand the capabilities of small, medium and large businesses in their respective industries that are dealing with large volumes of data where they need to provide faster responses to their queries. We are also seeing strong IT entrepreneurs conceiving new products and services that are building big data technologies right into the core of their business. This is certainly the case for our customer Bango Networks. The good news for these IT entrepreneurs is that business executives are finally getting their heads around the importance of the growing big data tsunami and the types of technologies required for companies to benefit from big data. These smart executives are making investments in big data teams with proven experience and willingness to take risks with new innovative big data products. Those executives that tend to be risk adverse will now find plenty of successes to prove to them that the company and team can be very successful taking advantage of new innovative technologies such as columnar databases for tackling big data. Executives also know that we are stuck in a time in the industry where spending has slowed, but they understand that making an investment now in big data innovation for their business will set them up to have a highly competitive advantage over the laggards.  

Innovation is sure to continue in the space of big data solutions and architectures. Now is the time to think out of the box and instrument big data innovation into your business. Doing so will allow you to more effectively compete in both the near future and the longer term future. If you don’t, then you may just fall behind tackling the big data challenges of your business. 

I’m excited to tell you that we are now up to 15 videos loaded up on our Infobright YouTube Video Channel found at www.youtube.com/infobrightdb
The most recent videos are part of a 5 part series showcasing Infobright’s Roadmap by our product manager Andrew Flint, V3.4.2 new performance capabilities and demonstrations by Infobright's Geoffrey Falk showing key performance features. You will see the videos showing part x of 5 on the channel. If you are interested in understanding the Infobright roadmap and key features along with the performance characteristics of 3.4.2, this is a good series of videos for you to watch at your own convenience anywhere you have access to YouTube including an iPad, mobile devices and even on your television (those that support YouTube watching thru a DVD box or other device).
If you want to know about differences in performance between our previous releases and our newest release, these videos tell a great story.
In addition, Infobright's David Lutz produced a very nice video on installing Infobright on Linux (CentOS). We also have one for Windows XP.  Overall we will work hard to continue to build new videos for the Infobright YouTube channel that we hope will further assist you in understanding the key capabilities of Infobright's analytic database.