Walter Lindsay

Chief Architect

Walter is Chief Architect of Contivo Products.  He has worked in the data integration space for 11 years, and prior to that worked in the distributed systems management and RDBMS spaces.  In his free time he plays classical music on conch shells.


Recent Posts

  • The Future History of Cloud Brokerages

    May 15, 2012
    An excellent predictor of the future is the past. That is, things with fundamental similarities tend to behave and develop in similar ways.
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  • A Cloud Integration Parable

    May 10, 2012
    Helene couldn’t stop talking about “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” She read quotes from it out loud. I didn’t get it.
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  • Mutual Computing

    May 09, 2012
    If you ask five people what cloud computing is, you will get six answers. Is a cloud what NASA uses for massive computations? Is it taking backups of a PC? Collaboratively editing documents online?
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  • Complex Mapping

    May 03, 2012
    Someone looking to become a Liaison customer asked me to write about creating complex maps. As I often say when speaking with customers and prospects, “We always take votes.”
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  • Happiness, Contentment and Data

    Mar 14, 2012
    The cover of a recent Harvard Business Review caught my eye. Its cover has a large smiley face and the words "The Value of Happiness How Employee Well-Being Drives Profits." I did just switch from being the chief architect for Contivo and am now director of product management and that means I have been thinking about happiness at the office.
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