Surf's up! Summer seems to finally have arrived in the Boston area and a number of vendors in the data warehousing and analytics space are hoping to catch a wave riding on a flurry of industry announcements. A few trends continue to build in the news: Data sizes continue to grow alongside the pressure to increase performance & shrink data latencies; Workload complexity and user counts continue to grow; More and more, customers are seeing the value of running advanced analytical processing directly in their primary data repository (see item #1 for reasons why); and Industry prices for data warehousing and analytics have begun another shift downward. Read More