Links that I have found interesting for February 25th:
- Build a Common Data Model. I dare you. – Leveraging Information and Intelligence – How do you build a CDM? It's really an enterprise metadata model, that's fully normalized and compartmentalized, so that there is a complete single, functional, and well defined schema that spans the enterprise. Moreover, all security, logic, rules, and other important information is defined in the CDM. Creating a CDM is just a matter of understanding the existing data, including semantics, structure, integrity, rules, logic, and physical location, and then working through the logical and physical design of the CDM, including normalization, and physical to virtual database abstraction.
- Digital Fuel, "Innovation Of The Year" Finalist, To Compete For Top Honors At IT Service Management Conference – Digital Fuel, the leader in IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, today announced it has been named a finalist in the "Innovation Of The Year" portion of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Awards sponsored by Pink Elephant, producer of the 13th Annual International IT Service Management Conference & Exhibition. Digital Fuel will exhibit at the conference, to be held February 22-25, 2009 in Las Vegas at the Bellagio Hotel, and will compete for top honors on February 24.
- Endace and Correlix Deliver First Integrated Network Monitoring Solution for Latency Intelligence – "Our NinjaProbe coupled with Correlix's trading-level latency intelligence and innovative correlation technology introduces a unique solution into the market space," said Mike Riley, CEO of Endace. "We're enabling users to track their complete trading and market data flow in real time while simultaneously monitoring, capturing and managing the underlying raw network data for deep technical analysis."
"As the low-latency trading era becomes more sophisticated and evolves from low-latency component investments to understanding complex multi-layer latency in trade systems and market data flows, we believe this integrated solution addresses the needs of our typical trading desk customer and their network team," said Shawn Melamed, CEO Correlix.