An open day on open source search from Sirius & Flax
We spent Friday at the riverside offices of Sirius Corporation, our support partners, for the first and hopefully not the last of their Open Days on open source enterprise search. We were lucky to have...
View ArticleThe death of enterprise search is reported, again
There’s no doubt that the search market has been in turmoil for many months now: traditional, closed source vendors are either frantically repositioning to avoid the ‘juggernaut that is Apache’s...
View ArticleWhy we won’t pay to play at conferences
One unedifying result of having been asked to speak on open source search at various events and conferences over the last few years is the discovery that not all events are equal – some genuinely wish...
View ArticleAs Hadoop gains, does Lucene benefit?
The last few weeks have seen a rush of investment in companies that offer Hadoop-powered Big Data platforms – the most recent being Intel’s investment in Cloudera, but Hortonworks has also snorted up...
View ArticleAnalysts getting a bad press – how can they do better?
It seems to be a bad summer for analyst companies in several sectors: here’s Forrester getting a kicking from Digital Clarity Group about their Wave report on Digital Experience Delivery Platforms (my...
View ArticleLondon Elasticsearch User Group – September Meetup
Last night I joined a good-sized crowd at a venue on Hoxton Square for some talks on Elasticsearch – this Meetup group is very popular and always attracts a good proportion of people new to the world...
View ArticleCambridge Search Meetup – Elasticsearch Hackday
Last Friday we hosted a hackday featuring Elasticsearch in Cambridge, following a similar event last year focused on Apache Lucene/Solr. Around 20 people attended from organisations working in sectors...
View ArticleSearching for opportunities in Real-Time Analytics
I spent a day last week at a new event from UNICOM, a conference on Real-Time Analytics. Mike Ferguson chaired the event and was kind enough to spend time with me over lunch exploring how search...
View ArticleA review of Stephen Arnold’s CyberOSINT & Next Generation Information Access
Stephen Arnold, whose blog I enjoy due to its unabashed cynicism about overenthusiastic marketing of search technology, was kind enough to send me a copy of his recent report on CyberOSINT & Next...
View ArticleA lack of cognition and some fresh FUD from Forrester
Last night the estimable Martin White, intranet and enterprise search expert and author of many books on the subject, flagged up two surprising articles from Forrester who have declared that Cognitive...
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