Philip Howard
Research Director - Data Management
Bloor Research
Philip started in the computer industry way back in 1973 and has variously worked as a systems analyst, programmer and salesperson, as well as in marketing and product management, for a variety of companies including GEC Marconi, GPT, Philips Data Systems, Raytheon and NCR.
After a quarter of a century of not being his own boss Philip set up what is now P3ST (Wordsmiths) Ltd in 1992 and his first client was Bloor Research (then ButlerBloor), with Philip working for the company as an associate analyst. His relationship with Bloor Research has continued since that time and he is now Research Director. His practice area encompasses anything to do with data and content and he has five further analysts working with him in this area. While maintaining an overview of the whole space Philip himself specialises in databases, data management, data integration, data quality, data federation, master data management, data governance and data warehousing. He also has an interest in event stream/complex event processing.
In addition to the numerous reports Philip has written on behalf of Bloor Research, Philip also contributes regularly to www.IT-Director.com and www.IT-Analysis.com and was previously the editor of both "Application Development News" and "Operating System News" on behalf of Cambridge Market Intelligence (CMI). He has also contributed to various magazines and published a number of reports published by companies such as CMI and The Financial Times.
Away from work, Philip's primary leisure activities are canal boats, skiing, playing Bridge (at which he is a Life Master) and walking the dog.
Contributions
There are a total of 743 articles written by Philip Howard, the listing has been split over 38 pages:
- 10/05/13 - IBM JSON
- 03/05/13 - Busy bees at MapR
- 26/04/13 - BLU Acceleration
- 25/04/13 - What is Actian actually doing?
- 15/04/13 - IBM boo-boo on big data
- 05/04/13 - Big data storage options
- 22/03/13 - De-duplication in a graph database
- 21/03/13 - SQL and NoSQL
- 19/03/13 - Now here's a thought
- 18/03/13 - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
- 12/02/13 - If I haven't heard of it it's probably NoSQL!
- 07/02/13 - IBM adds new Netezza model
- 20/12/12 - Is IMS a NoSQL database?
- 08/11/12 - DB2: a relational epithet is no longer enough
- 03/10/12 - It's a busy time of year
- 02/10/12 - Greenplum update
- 24/08/12 - Why you should license Excel 2013: and it's not because of the BI
- 15/08/12 - Informatica positions itself in the security space
- 18/07/12 - Agile development and change management: are they mutually exclusive?
- 21/06/12 - Federating Big Data