Coming off a record quarter as well as reporting 2008 revenues and operating income that reached all-time highs, it wasn’t surprising that it was a packed house of analysts attending the by-invitation-only proceedings at Sybase Analyst Day on May 13.

One of the bedrock notions we have lived with since the mid-1990’s has been the concept of “data explosion” in the enterprise. The widely-propagated theme is that enterprise data is roughly “doubling annually”. But if the recent Unisphere Research survey among information management professionals subscribing to our publication “Database Trends and Applications” is accurate, not [...]