The Invisible Database

In a very informative post today, my colleague Eric Farrar introduced a cool new component in the SQL Anywhere family: UltraLiteWeb UltraLiteWeb is a browser plug-in that allows the development of robust, secure, data rich browser-based applications, and provides the ability to synchronize the data to a wide variety of enterprise systems. UPDATE: March 3, [...]

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This week I am in California to visit with a couple of our long time strategic OEM partners. These partners bundle SQL Anywhere with their own software products. For the last year or so, one of these partners has been using SQL Anywhere technologies for a very interesting move into Software as a Service (SaaS) [...]

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Data synchronization cannot simply be an add-on at the end of a development project. It must be designed in from the beginning. In many of my previous posts, I have promoted a process that we call Data Driven Mobile Application design. I firmly believe that organizations must think about all aspects of their data FIRST, [...]

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Thanks to iAnywhere Systems Consultant Michael Novak for this pointer to an interesting article about the “death” of the network perimeter. Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief of TechRepublic recently published an article on his Sanity Check blog about how recent changes in where corporate data is used have affected the need for a broader concept [...]

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Of course it does! Everyone knows that the database running in a corporate data center has to clearly demonstrate the performance necessary to handle large corporate application requirements. But why does performance matter when the database is on mobile device, or on an server outside the data center? Consider the case of a small business [...]

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In this post by Glenn Paulley, he commented on my previous post regarding distributed data management. I think Glenn makes some fine points. He observes that productivity improves if latency is reduced. The observation that I thought was excellent though is that when operation autonomy is coupled with reduced latency, THEN we would begin to [...]

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My question of the week: Is the distribution of data management a necessary step for the growth of both countries as well as companies? This was my question after reading a post in “The Technium” blog by Kevin Kelly. This post described a seminar given by Iqbal Quadir. Quadir is currently the founder and director [...]

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