new opportunities update on new technology / [email protected] 502 228 1966 april 13, 2004 © 2004...
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New Opportunities
Update on New Technology
www.arnoldit.com / www.infozen.com
[email protected] 502 228 1966
April 13, 2004© 2004 Stephen E. Arnold
Topics
• Background• Database performance• RSS services• Monitoring user activity• Outlook
Arnold IT
• Affiliated with InfoZen, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland)
• Arnold clients include:– Unit of the world’s largest software
company– Veen Law (SF) and Hall & Estill (DC)– Ebsco Electronic Publishing
Performance
• Data volume exploding• Systems cannot keep pace• Throwing hardware at the problem– Expensive– Results uneven / unpredictable
Database Performance
New Access Modes
New Table Structures
“Push” Returns
• Content provides “cues”• Traditional approach to news… watershed• XML and scripts:– Clustering of content– New, hard-to-locate sources– New players
RSS: Autoclustering
4,000 Real Time Sources
Monitoring Enters Mainstream
• Opt in• Monitor• Exploit
Monitoring
Discovery
Relationships
Bottom-line
• Performance--critical to new tools• RSS--fundamental challenge to established
newsfeeds• Monitoring--data mining and clustering
essential to intelligence
Outlook
• Raw innovation important• Processing efficiency and raw speed
essential• New tools require focus on:– Data transformation– Automation of manual processes– “Playing well with others”
Forecast for IT
Innovation without integration is no solution.
It is just another expensive problem.
The urls
• www.sliccware.com and www.washingtonpost.com
• www.topix.net and www.rocketinfo.com• www.anacubis.com and www.inxight.com