Author Archives: Isaac
Accelerating digital banking through convergence of technology
South America, and Brazil in particular, are going through a huge set of changes in the banking sector. Most recent example of HSBC’s decision to sell off assets in Brazil (and Turkey) are only a single indicator of unique market conditions and influence of global interconnectedness. With government banks accounting for roughly 50% of market share, […]
Achieving Speed of Scale by unifying Big Data and Enterprise Data
A few week’s ago our team at VCE had been honored to present an innovative solution to Wall street technologists on the subject of handling a myriad of data ingestion challenges coupled with unique ways to address platform convergence. The presentation was part of an all-day event organized by the Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) […]
DBaaS DevOps convergence in Investment Banking
At Oracle OpenWorld last week, Christian Bilien – Head of Database team from Société Générale, a French investment bank, talked about reducing complexity and accelerating business transformation through agility of DevOps. The following are noteworthy metrics from their experience: 1,600 developers 70,000 database refreshes each year 14 zettabyes of data Status quo: a “huge strain on storage […]
Good times with good people
This past week I had an opportunity to visit with a number of special folks I am happy to have gotten acquainted with over the years. Fate had me back in the Bay Area for a number of business meetings and I was fortunate to make some time to nourish personal relationships after work (there […]
Starting with a vision
It was years ago when I was introduced to, and witnessed challenges associated with deploying infrastructure in large organizations. For the end users, the merits of open systems seemed two fold: expect vendors to interoperate with each other – for the greater good of the consumer, and assume i.e. expect an implied nature of having to engage in integration upon […]
FIX: DVD player unable to play DVDs
Sometime ago I had expanded a Macbook Pro by adding a 2nd internal hard drive in lieu of the built-in DVD drive. Attaching an external DVD drive worked for data DVDs, however once I tried to play a DVD movie, I got a “Valid DVD Drive Could Not be Found [-70012]” error. A bit of research on […]
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