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 A few months ago experts predicted 2013 would be the Year of Big Data. To a large extent, those predictions have been spot on, with big data investment on the rise and success stories emerging across a variety of industries from insurance to pharma to professional basketball.
The big ...Jun. 19, 2013 12:55 PM EDT Reads: 278 |
 In the course of IT history, many schemes have been devised and deployed to protect data against storage system failure, especially disk drive hardware. These protection mechanisms have nearly always been variants on two themes: duplication of files or objects (backup, archiving, synch...Jun. 19, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 977 |
 Over the past two decades relational databases have been most successful in serving large scale OLTP and OLAP applications across enterprises. However, in the past couple of years with the advent of Big Data, processing especially processing unstructured data coupled with the need for ...Jun. 19, 2013 11:11 AM EDT Reads: 239 |
 Big Data as we know it today is more aligned to the analytical processing of large quantities of data. All the predominant use cases identified by the big data product vendors are more aligned with analytical processing. For example one of the major use case of Big Data is about utiliz...Jun. 19, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 555 |
 HP has made a big announcement around a broader vision for businesses to help them gain actionable intelligence from literally a universe of potential sources and data types.
Fairly recently, only critical data was given this high-falutin' treatment for analysis, warehousing, applying...Jun. 19, 2013 09:51 AM EDT Reads: 253 |
 The business value of analytics has never been greater. But enterprises are flooded with a deluge of data spread across analyst desktops, big data stores, data warehouses and marts, transaction systems and the cloud. How do analysts overcome these data challenges?
Data is the lifeblo...Jun. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 640 |
 With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] starting next week, here's a look at one of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New Yor...Jun. 9, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,978 |
 Cloudmeter has put out a way for Splunk users to unlock the Big Data gold mine in their network traffic data to see into their online applications, users experience and business outcome, turning it into actionable information for IT and business users.
The widgetry, called Stream, w...Jun. 6, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 751 |
 Over the past two decades relational databases have been most successful in serving large scale OLTP and OLAP applications across enterprises. However, in the past couple of years with the advent of Big Data processing, especially processing unstructured data coupled with the need for ...Jun. 2, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,337 |
 While nearly 90 percent of business and IT leaders agree that big data can be useful in making intelligent business decisions, only one-third of companies have implemented big-data initiatives.
Furthermore, more than 50 percent of survey respondents said that they had only lukewarm s...Jun. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,339 |
 Nowadays every single CIO, CTO, or business executive that I speak to is captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single organizational executive that I speak with confirms that they either have current projects that are ...May. 31, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,605 |
 BigData (and Hadoop) are buzzword and growth areas of computing; this article will distill the concepts into easy-to-understand terms.
As the name implies, BigData is literally "big data" or "lots of data" that needs to be processed. Lets take a simple example: the city council of San...May. 31, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,854 |
| Knowing what Big Data is, is one; knowing what a Big Data strategy is two; knowing how to implement that Big Data strategy is even more difficult. At least, that is how a lot of organizations perceive it. It must be said, in large process-directed organizations, what most of the large ... May. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,138 |
 Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat...May. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,010 |
| The IT industry is nothing if not a breeding ground for an infinite variety of acronyms and neologisms. Alongside cloud computing today sits the term Big Data, which of course we understand to mean “that amount” of data which a traditional database would find hard to compute and proces... May. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,965 |
 By the end of 2013, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use by consumers from around the world. Around 2015, Gartner predicts that more tablets will be sold than PCs worldwide and in 2017 1.75 tablets will be sold for every PC. The growth of smartphones is not only in the Western world....May. 28, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,674 |
 Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout.
We have some really exciting innovation coming in the near-term to Ariba in a couple...May. 28, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,746 |
 “Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at N...May. 25, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,137 |
 If zettabytes of data exist, why is less than 1% of the world’s data being analyzed today? Seasoned entrepreneur and startup CEO Radhika Subramanian believes that the inability to analyze and gain value from Big Data is that organizations are taking a services-centered approach. As the...May. 20, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,028 |
 With over 3 million applications and over 300,000 unique developers now using Cloud Platform in a given month, according to Google Sr. VP Urs Hölzle, it is time to open that infrastructure "and make it available to any business or developer anywhere."
Blogging in the Google Clou...May. 17, 2013 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,253 |
 In his session at the 12th Cloud Expo |Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, will look at how NoSQL impacts your application building decisions. He will discuss some of the insider baseball in the NoSQL community, co...May. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,700 |
 We have all been getting used to the term Big Data by now. Despite varying definitions of what it is supposed to mean across a variety of computing platforms and use cases, we typically understand Big Data to refer to anything from “hundreds” of gigabytes for smaller organizations thro...May. 13, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,226 |
 By Bob Gourley Platfora is enterprise grade technology that brings the power of Hadoop to any analyst that needs to get value from data. They are a game-changer in the Big Data field. But one of the best things abou... May. 11, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 934 |
 Following my high-level write-up of Hadoop and Big Data, this article will present each of the components or projects that make up Hadoop with a technical description of each.
First, what is Hadoop?
Hadoop stores and processes large volumes of a wide variety of data that changes rapi...May. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,515 |
 This week I read an interesting article titled, Mobile Phone Data Redraws Bus Routes in Africa. Seems the MNO (mobile network operator) Orange released 2.5 billion phone records (anonymised data) from 5 million phones for an exercise on how Big Data could be used to improve lives.
Th...May. 9, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,432 |
 Talent recruiting is undergoing a major shift with the introduction of Big Data, turning a traditional industry on its head.
Previously, recruiting was primarily conducted through open directories like Monster.com, where candidates were spammed according to keyword matches. Then the j...May. 6, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,750 |
 A capability model is a structure that represents the core abilities and competencies of an entity (department, organization, person, system, and technology) to achieve its objectives, especially in relation to its overall mission and functions. May. 6, 2013 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 816 |
 MapR Technologies, the Hadoop house, Wednesday released M7, a Big
Data platform that’s supposed to remove the usual trade-offs involved in
deploying a NoSQL database on Hadoop.
The widgetry packages Hadoop with HBase, the open source NoSQL
database modeled after Google’s BigTable...May. 2, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,097 |
 Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or have already done so and are now getting serious about operations. This leads to some interesting discussions about how to monitor Hadoop prope...Apr. 29, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,269 |
 Many software vendors, analyst and journalist are overusing the term “Data Governance” in today’s complex business and IT environments. However, it has become one of the primary goals and drivers for data-related IT projects while at the same time being one of the most difficult to def...Apr. 26, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,227 |
 Microsoft recently announced the PolyBase technology as part of SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse solution. PolyBase is a breakthrough new technology on the data processing engine in SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse designed as the simplest way to combine non-relational da...Apr. 24, 2013 09:41 AM EDT Reads: 1,671 |
 Federal agencies spent close to $4.9 billion on Big Data resources during fiscal year 2012 and that number could grow to $5.7 billion in 2014.
Research firm Deltek estimates federal big data spending will grow to $7.2 billion by 2017 as agencies strive to handle ever-increasing volume...Apr. 11, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,619 |
 CIOs understand the importance of analytics and BI. According to a 2012 survey of 2300 CIO by Gartner, analytics and BI are their number one technology priority. Analytics and BI can make bigger business impact when they can access more data. With data in the cloud and Big Data silos, ...Apr. 11, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,150 |
 Big data helped re-elect a President, find Osama bin Laden, and contributed to the melt-down of our financial system. We are in the midst of a data revolution where social media introduces new terms like Arab Spring, Facebook Depression and Twitter anxiety that reflect a new reality: b...Apr. 7, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,832 |
 Enterprises can't close their doors just because integration tools won't cope with the volume of information that their systems produce. As each day goes by, their information will become larger and more complicated and enterprises must constantly struggle to manage the integration of ...Apr. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,969 |
 There has been a lot of discussion on NoSQL databases over the past couple of years. These databases do not use the Structured Query Language (SQL), the standard data manipulation language for relational databases such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Sybase, … Apr. 5, 2013 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,204 Replies: 1 |
 “By making this source code easily accessible on GitHub and providing open APIs such as NFS and ODBC, MapR is ensuring that end users have available an open and flexible, enterprise-grade platform for Hadoop,” said Tomer Shiran, director of product management at MapR Technologies, Inc....Apr. 2, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,867 |
 If you’re not convinced the hype around Big Data is entirely justified, consider the following statistics: in the time it takes an average person to read this article, 72 petabytes of data (that’s 72 x 1015 if you’re counting) will have been added to the global information pool. Each h...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,399 |
 The enhanced adoption of Cloud, Big Data, Mobility is causing more services to be developed and aggregated, hence there is a greater emphasis on Agile for service aggregation. Agile processes have specific methods to manage the rapid development cycles and changing requirements in appl...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,051 |
 The Big Data and Cloud “movements” have acted as catalysts for tremendous growth in fit-for-purpose databases. Along with this growth, we see a new set of challenges in how we access the data through our business-critical applications. Let’s take a brief look at the evolution of these ...Mar. 30, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,362 |
