James Curtis is a Senior Research Analyst for the Data, AI & Analytics Channel at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He has had experience covering the BI reporting and analytics sector and currently covers Hadoop, NoSQL and related analytic and operational database technologies.
James has over 20 years' experience in the IT and technology industry, serving in a number of senior roles in marketing and communications, touching a broad range of technologies. At iQor, he served as a VP for an upstart analytics group, overseeing marketing for custom, advanced analytic solutions. He also worked at Netezza and later at IBM, where he was a senior product marketing manager with responsibility for Hadoop and big data products. In addition, James has worked at Hewlett-Packard managing global programs and as a case editor at Harvard Business School.
James holds a bachelor's degree in English from Utah State University, a master's degree in writing from Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from Texas A&M University.
The company was early to market with a PostgreSQL Kubernetes Operator that users leveraged to run the open source database on cloud infrastructure. Leaning on its experience, Crunchy Data is rolling out Crunchy Bridge, a fully managed PostgreSQL Cloud service.
The company's data lake service is getting a makeover, with an emphasis on time " the time it takes to set up a data lake and the time it takes to start analyzing data. Instant Cloud Data Lake is targeted at enterprises wanting a cloud-based analytics platform that requires minimal resources to manage.
The company has long positioned its NoSQL database as a multi-model database capable of handling multiple data types. It still maintains that positioning, but its focus recently has been to bolster the database's graph capabilities because they serve as an onramp to leverage the database's other data models.
The company emerged on the data platform scene with a cloud-only data warehousing service that leveraged AWS infrastructure underneath. With messaging that positioned it as born and built 'in the cloud,' Snowflake certainly rankled the traditional data warehousing market that has historically catered to on-premises deployments. Now, eight years removed from its founding and $1.4bn in funding, Snowflake has filed its IPO paperwork.
The first major round of consolidation in BI-oriented analytics occurred more than a decade ago, while the second took place last year. With 50+ BI vendors still in play and analytics arguably more critical than ever in the present unprecedent business environment, we examine companies that could be involved in the third M&A wave.
The company has long been a big proponent of hybrid OLTP and OLAP workloads, and its revenue distribution certainly supports that. Ongoing development work at the storage layer means that MemSQL is committed to the hybrid processing business for the long run.
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