April 17, 2017

Interana

Interana has an interesting story, in technology and business model alike. For starters:

And to be clear — if we leave aside any questions of marketing-name sizzle, this really is business intelligence. The closest Interana comes to helping with predictive modeling is giving its ad-hoc users inspiration as to where they should focus their modeling attention.

Interana also has an interesting twist in its business model, which I hope can be used successfully by other enterprise software startups as well.

The key to understanding Interana is its DML. Notes on that include:

Notes on Interana speeds & feeds include:

Although Interana’s original design point was spinning disk, most customers store their Interana data on flash.

Interana architecture choices include:

Finally, other Interana tech notes include:

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