Monthly Archives: June 2013

The Five Year Plan

Posted on June 13, 2013 by way0utwest

IT departments won’t exist in five years. A bold prediction from the CITE conference last week. It’s not so much a prediction of an increase in cloud services, but more the idea that the centralized IT department is struggling with the consumerization … Continue reading →

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Data Vision

Posted on June 12, 2013 by way0utwest

One of the things that I often do when analyzing data is examine visual representations. I don’t ignore data, but often a graph or picture of who the data is distributed or organized gives me a starting place for more … Continue reading →

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The Watson Service

Posted on June 11, 2013 by way0utwest

The Watson project from IBM continues to grow and expand in new ways tha twe might never have thought of a few years ago. After winning Jeopardy, the compuer software moved into the medical fields and was sent to college … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tuesday #43–Hello, Operator?

Posted on June 11, 2013 by way0utwest

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this one is a bit of a challenge for me. Rob Farley is hosting, and asking for people to write on Plan Operators, those various elements that go into the execution plans in T-SQL. I … Continue reading →

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