I’m heading back from my first HIMSS conference since the late 1990s, and it’s been interesting to see what has changed – and what hasn’t – since I was last there.

First off, the conference has pretty much doubled in size in the past 15 years – I remember thinking it was huge back then because they anticipated 20,000 people attending and exhibiting, and now it’s up to about 40,000. Wow. Fortunately the city of Orlando was prepared to handle the onslaught, and everything seemed to run

After hearing that MarkLogic has been around since 2001, people coming by our booth at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara couldn’t help but wonder how on earth they didn’t know about this database that can do so much.

It’s because we were NoSQL before NoSQL was cool… so now that it is cool, MarkLogic is getting attention. Besides the fun fact that we were one of the first in the NoSQL space, another plus to being around that long is that we are tried and true. MarkLogic is a

More and more organizations – in both the public and private sectors – are turning to the cloud to get fast, cost-effective IT infrastructure. Cloud infrastructure – like that provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) – is proven to be scalable, reliable, and secure, and can help improve data accessibility (including better support for a mobile workforce). And, there’s no wait for hardware to be ordered and configured – it’s as close to immediate gratification as you can get!

Now MarkLogic –

A recent global survey by Teradata probed the minds of marketers:

• 50% of markets say marketing and IT are not strategic partners
• 40% of marketers gave their department a grade of C or lower for using data to drive marketing
• 71% of marketers plan to implement a Big Data analytics solution in the next two years

While there is much more information in the report, these insights into marketers and their dissatisfaction with their IT brethren are reminiscent of a similar problem that was

When our road show stopped in the City by the Bay, we discussed a different way of doing things – a necessary escape from the relational world because 80% of the world’s data today doesn’t fit into rows and columns. Panelists Christopher Lindblad, Greg Shepherd, Palanivelu (Bala) Balasubramanian, and Jason Hunter chatted about enterprise needs and the impetus to quickly innovate.

The panel was a lively one. MarkLogic Founder Chris Lindblad waved his hands talking about the origins of