Archive: January, 2008
An Overture to the 2007 CEP Blog Awards
Before announcing the winners of the 2007 CEP Blog Awards I thought it would be helpful to introduce the award categories to our readers. I have given considerable thought to how to structure The CEP Blog Awards. This was not an easy task, as you might imagine, given the confusion in the event processing marketspace. [...]
Read moreCyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!
In The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008 I mentioned one of most critical cybersecurity threats of 2008 will be the manipulation and subversion of financial markets. Well, folks in New York have barely finished cleaning the colorful New Years confetti off Wall Street and a vivid example of manipulating the market appears in the news. We have yet to [...]
Read moreGoldman Sachs Downgrades TIBCO (TIBX) to Sell
I was looking at some of my favorite CEP companies this morning and noticed that Goldman Sachs analyst Derek Bingham just downgraded vendor TIBCO Software (TIBX) to Sell. According to Bingham, here, … customers will move away from buying more expensive “best-of-breed” offerings, like Tibco”s products, and more toward buying less expensive “good enough” substitutes that [...]
Read moreInvitation to Join the DEBS 2008 Group on LinkedIn
I would like to invite the readers of my blog to join the DEBS 2008 group on LinkedIn. Joining this group will allow you to find and contact other DEBS 2008 members on LinkedIn. The goal of the DEBS 2008 group is to help members: Reach other event processing people, sponsors and attendees of DEBS 2008. Accelerate careers, business, and research [...]
Read moreThe Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008
Here is the final list of the top ten cybersecurity threats for 2008: — On-line masquerading to abuse, attack, blackmail, bully, extort, or molest others. — Criminal fraud by password and identity theft via phishing, spyware, malware and theft of hardware. — Criminal use of botnets and botnet-like technologies for economic gain, for example email [...]
Read moreBetting on the SOA Horse
Selling software and related professional services is like a horse race. The field is composed of horses named SOA, CEP, EDA, RSS, Web 2.0, Social Networking, BPM, BAM, BI, XTP and so forth. Each horse has one or more primary sponsors, some are consulting organizations, who seem to have a nack for creating and marketing acronyms, [...]
Read moreCoral8: Event Stream Processing and Intrusion Detection
Not quite ready for prime-time, we have been testing our home-grown UNIX domain socket adapter using Coral8 Java APIs. We are using this adapter to evaluate and demonstrate stream processing with intrusion detection systems (IDS) using event stream processing to reduce false alarms, detect derived situations from the raw intrusion event data, and feed a security management visualization dashboard. [...]
Read moreApama: Fraud Detection and Heat Maps
A few days ago in Visualization Reloaded I touched upon the subject of heat maps. In that post the application context was monitoring a massively parallel online gaming platform using a combination of event processing technologies by StreamBase and SL Today, I was reminded of another heat map created by Progress Apama during a leisurely morning viewing of a Fox Business [...]
Read moreExecutives are Risk Adverse and Favor Large, Stable Companies
Marco Seiriö asks, To Integrate Or Not? And How? with an underlying message that he thinks it is unwise for RuleCore, as a CEP vendor, to spend development resources on integration and adapters. I think most small companies in RuleCore’s position would make similar statements for a number of reasons, including Marco’s observation that they are resource constrained. Unfortunately [...]
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