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Transforming Data Into Action - Part Two

Transforming Data Into Action – Part Two

By Michael Fauscette on December 2, 2014

In part one of this series we looked at big data and transforming it into smart data, or data that is contextual, relevant and delivered to the right people / person at the right time. One of the other interesting and growing use cases in the business use of data is something called small data. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache Hadoop, Beowulf cluster, Big Data, CRM, Customer, Customer Experience, CX, data, data2action, decision systems, Distributed computing, enterprise, mapreduce, marketing, Open source, sales, sense and respond, small data, smart data, socbiz, supercomputer

Product is Not a Four-Letter Word

Product is Not a Four-Letter Word

By Dave Kellogg on June 10, 2014

“Customers buy 1/4″ holes, not 1/4″ bits.” – Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School At some point in every marketer’s career they produce a data sheet that looks like this: Our product uses state-of-the-art technology including a MapReduce distributed backend processing engine with predictive analytics including multivariate adaptive regression splines, support vector machine classification, and naive Bayesean machine […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged mapreduce, marketing, positioning, product, solution

Big Data in 2014 – The trends behind the predictions

Big Data in 2014 – The trends behind the predictions

By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 6, 2014

Back in December 2009, fresh off the heals of publishing what I hoped would be the definitive guide to strategy-driven analytics Driven to Perform, and being accidentally admitted to the Enterprise Irregulars, I wrote The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management where I summarized where I thought the industry was […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Big Data, business intelligence, Cloudera, mapreduce, NoSQL, Paxata, QlikTech, Tableau | 2 Responses

Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs

By Merv Adrian on December 10, 2012

At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’  steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running Paraccel’s high-performance columnar, compressed […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, Amazon, analytics, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS, hadoop, mapreduce, On Business Intelligence, Redshift, software licensing, Vendor image and communications | 2 Responses

Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

By Merv Adrian on July 20, 2011

The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Big Data, BigInsights, Brisk, Cassandra, Cloudera, DataRush, Datastax, Eigenbase, EMC, Facebook, Flume, Hadapt, hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, ibm, InfoSphere, Isilon, Karmasphere, Linux, MapR, mapreduce, microsoft, Mondrian, NetApp, NFS, Oozie, Open source, oracle, OSS, pervasive, Pig, Platform Computing, SQLStream, Sqoop, Watson, Yahoo, zookeeper | 1 Response

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

IBM Fills Out Netezza Lineup With High Capacity Appliance

By Merv Adrian on June 23, 2011

In the months since IBM closed its Netezza acquisition, the data warehouse appliance pioneer has been busy, if the announcements at this week’s Enzee are any indication. An enthusiastic crowd – 1000 strong – heard CEO Jim Baum deliver the news: new hardware, software and partnerships.The biggest news was The Appliance Formerly Known As Cruiser, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, analytics, Data warehouse, data warehouse appliance, Data Warehousing, Database, DBMS Blogs, gartner, ibm, Industry Trends, mapreduce, Netezza, oracle

Hadoop is Many Things Including the Ideal ETL Tool for Big Data Analytics

Hadoop is Many Things Including the Ideal ETL Tool for Big Data Analytics

By Evangelos Simoudis on April 4, 2011

The success of the recent Strata and Structure conferences (conclusions from last year’s conference and resulting trends can be found here) reinforced the accelerating corporate interest in big data and the specific need for applications and techniques that take advantage of Hadoop.  Based on the presentations I attended or read about, it appears that more […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BI, BigData, Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, hadoop, mapreduce, NoSQL | 1 Response

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

Cloudera Convenes Colleagues to Crunch Content (Make Mine Membase)

By Merv Adrian on November 28, 2010

Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has  racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Big Data, Cassandra, Cloudera, crippleware, failover, Flume, hadoop, Industry Trends, Informatica, key-value store, mapreduce, Membase, memcached, MongoDB, mySQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, RDBMS, Riak, Sqoop, SSD

Cloudera-Informatica Deal Opens Broader Horizons for Both

Cloudera-Informatica Deal Opens Broader Horizons for Both

By Merv Adrian on November 26, 2010

Cloudera‘s continuing focus on the implications of explosive data growth has led it to another key partnership, this time with Informatica. Connecting to the dominant player in data integration and data quality expands the opportunity for Cloudera dramatically; it enables the de facto commercial Hadoop leader to find new ways to empower the “silent majority” […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Cloudera, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, EC2, EDW, hadoop, HDFS, ibm, Industry Trends, Informatica, mapreduce, master data management, Membase, RDBMS, Siperian, Sqoop, Teradata, Vertica | 2 Responses

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

Calpont’s InfiniDB – Another ADBMS Insurgent Arises

By Merv Adrian on November 8, 2010

Calpont, rapidly emerging as yet another contender in the ADBMS sweepstakes, has announced version 2.0 of InfiniDB, its columnar MPP offering over shared storage. The value proposition hits now-familiar themes: high-performance query, fast data loading, data compression, and parallelized user defined functions (UDFs), all of which are becoming key checkoff capabilities. InfiniDB also hits hard […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged ADBMS, BBBT, Calpont, column stores, columnar, community edition, correlated subquery, data compression, data load, DDL, distributed query, EMC, failover, Greenplum, ibm, Industry Trends, InfiniDB, mapreduce, microsoft, MPP, mySQL, OEM, Open source, oracle, partitioning, Percona, pricing, sap, shared nothing, shared storage, SQL, storage engine, Sybase, Teradata, UDF

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