Hadoop will be in most advanced analytics products by 2015, Gartner says
Chris Kanaracus | January 24, 2013
Source: Computer World
The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market, but users can expect it to become even more prevalent over the next couple of years, according to Gartner...
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Hadoop Appliances -- the Lengthening List
John Webster | February 27, 2013
Source: Forbes
I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop, with its attendant add-ons is a bear to install...
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Cloudera who? Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Stacey Higginbotham | February 26, 2013
Source: GigaOM
Intel's getting into the open source software business with it's own version of Hadoop. It joins a host of startups as well as EMC Greenplum in building a distribution for big data...
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What MapReduce can't do
Vincent Granville | January 31, 2013
Source: Analytic Bridge
We discuss here a large class of big data problems where MapReduce can't be used - not in a straightforward way at least - and we propose a rather simple analytic, statistical solution. MapReduce is a technique that splits big data sets into many smaller ones...
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Hadoop will be in most advanced analytics products by 2015, Gartner says
Chris Kanaracus | January 24, 2013
Source: Computer World
The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market, but users can expect it to become even more prevalent over the next couple of years, according to Gartner...
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Realities of the Enterprise Data Scientist
Justin Kern | January 31, 2013
Source: Information Management
You need talented people to lock on to the valuable elements of vast and varied data streams. Like big data itself, these "data scientists" come with all types of lofty definitions and expectations. So we reached out to Anand Rao, innovation lead for the analytics group ...
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An Internet for Manufacturing
Michael Fitzgerald | January 28, 2013
Source: MIT Technology Review
As good a place as any to find the answer is at General Electric’s newest U.S. factory, a $170 million plant it opened in Schenectady, New York, last July to produce advanced sodium-nickel batteries for uses that include powering cell-phone towers (see "GE's Novel Battery to Bolster the Grid) ...
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5 Insurance Impacts of the Internet of Things
Nathan Golia | February 1, 2013
Source: Information & Technology
When I&T sister site InformationWeek went to this year's Consumer Electronics Show, a major theme was the "internet of things" — a big jump in the number of networked devices. Intel's CTO talked about wearable technology, while Cisco's CTO of emerging technologies noted that ...
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Embedded Analytics Can Save Time, Money and Lives
Gene Frantz | January 31, 2013
Source: All Things D
Imagine a pair of glasses for the visually impaired that combine video cameras in the lenses with a dedicated microprocessor and a speech-synthesis component that whispers in the user’s ears as he or she walks down the street: "Your destination is 75 feet ahead. Keep to the right to avoid sidewalk repairs"...
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6 Predictions for 2013: Search Marketing &
Big Data Analytics
Raj De Datta | January 14, 2013
Source: Search Engine Watch
Without a doubt, 2013 will be even more challenging for search marketers to break through the noise and engage with their audience. The amount of information and the fragmentation of online consumer channels will continue to grow exponentially and people will exert more power over how they express their intentions and where...
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When Presenting Your Data, Get to the Point Fast
Nancy Duarte | March 28, 2013
Source: Harvard Business Review
Projecting your data on slides puts you at an immediate disadvantage: When you're giving a presentation, people can't pull the numbers in for a closer look or take as much time to examine them as they can with a report or a white paper. That's why you need to direct their attention...
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A Storage Guy at GigaOM Structure Data?
John Webster | March 27, 2013
Source: Forbes
GigaOM's annual Structure Data event, held typically during March in New York City, is billed as a Big Data analytics event. But I'm a self-confessed storage bigot and I saw this latest edition as a storage event. Cloud computing aficionados likely saw clouds everywhere...
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A Brief History of Applause, the 'Big Data' of the Ancient World
Megan Garber | March 15, 2013
Source: The Atlantic
In the seventh century, as the Roman empire was in the decline period of its decline and fall, the emperor Heraclius made plans to meet with a barbarian king. Heraclius wanted to intimidate his opponent. But he knew that the Roman army, in its weakened state, was no longer...
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IBM CEO Says ‘Big Data’ Is Company’s Top Priority This Year
Sarah Frier | March 8, 2013
Source: Bloomberg
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty sees “big data” services, which let customers mine vast troves of information to make better decisions, as the company’s biggest focus this year...
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Top Five Cloud Predictions for 2013
Greg Ness | January 2, 2013
Source: AlwaysOn
Vantage Data Center's Greg Ness looks into the new year with his top five "hybrid" predictions on what we can expect in the coming year in the cloud marketplace. I’ve read about a dozen different sets of predictions for cloud computing in 2013 and will coopt many I consider to be the most credible...
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Gartner Publishes North Pole Big Data Assessment
Paul M. Davis | December 24, 2012
Source: Greenplum
Delivering toys to millions of children around the world in one night: suffice to say, Santa and his helpers at the North Pole may have been the first enterprise to contend with Big Data’s challenges...
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Who's Really Using Big Data
Paul Barth and Randy Bean | September 12, 2012
Source: Harvard Business Review
We recently surveyed executives at Fortune 1000 companies and large government agencies about where they stand on Big Data: what initiatives they have planned, who's leading the charge, and how well equipped they are to exploit the opportunities Big Data presents...
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‘Big data’ is still a big mystery
Amy Dusto | September 10, 2012
Retailers don’t understand how to apply it to their businesses, a study says
Source: Internet Retailer
While 80% of retailers say they’ve heard of “big data,” only 47% say they understand how to apply it to their business, according to a survey by retail research firm Edgell Knowledge Network...
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Steep Big Data Learning Curve, Reveals CompTIA Survey
Ann All | September 12, 2012
Source: Enterprise Apps Today
Though enterprises are embarking on Big Data projects, many still need to boost competencies in areas like analytics, storage, backup and business continuity. When it comes to Big Data, knowledge is low while expectations are high – a tricky combination...
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Gartner IT Spending Report
Natasha Lomas | January 3, 2013
Source: Tech Crunch
Analyst Gartner has increased its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2013, revising its Q3 2012 figure up from 3.8 per cent growth to 4.2 per cent higher than last year’s figure. The analyst is now forecasting that worldwide IT spending will hit $3.7 trillion in 2013...
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Worldwide IT Spending To Grow 2.5% In 2013, Gartner Says
Eric Savitz | November 15, 2012
Source: Forbes
Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to grow 2.5% in 2013 to $2.679 trillion, market research firm Gartner said today, after “scant” growth in 2012...
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Using Search Analytics To See Into Gartner's $232B Big Data Forecast
Louis Columbus | October 15, 2012
Source: Forbes
By combining search analytics and the latest Gartner forecast on big data published last week, it’s possible to get a glimpse into this areas’ highest growth industry sectors. Big data is consistently a leading search term on Gartner.com...
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Hadoop-MapReduce Market Forecast 2013-2018
Staff | July 31, 2012
Source: MarketAnalysis.com
Hadoop-MapReduce is taking the Big Data market by storm, levelling the playing ground for small players. It would not be exaggeration to say that today Hadoop-MapReduce is the only cost-sensible and scalable Big Data management alternative...
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Big Data Market and Forecast
Louis Columbus | August 16, 2012
Source: Forbes
From the best-known companies in enterprise software to start-ups, everyone is jumping on the big data bandwagon. The potential of big data to bring insights and intelligence into enterprises is a strong motivator...
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How Machine Data and Operational Intelligence Can Supercharge Business Applications, Part I
Dan Woods | September 27, 2012
Source: CITO Research
Imagine that all your business apps were people, seated in an auditorium ready to hear a speech. Here’s what I would say to them about machine data: Business apps, meet machine data. You are the stars of the show ...
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Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC]
Chris Taylor | January 13, 2012
Source: Mashable Business
Want a job where the talent is scarce — and likely to remain that way for at least the next five years? Become a data scientist. That, at least, is the conclusion of a global survey of the number-crunching professionals by IT service company EMC...
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The Significance Of Big Data
Mike James | August 17, 2012
Source: I Programmer
Significance, a magazine produced by the Royal Statistical Society has a special issue on Big Data and it has some really interesting articles, including Peter Norvig on why language is statistical in nature. The only downside is that you can't...
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From Big Science to Big Data
Staff | August 12, 2012
Source: SnowHydro
We are launching a conference at the intersection of health, health care, and data. Why? Our health care system is in crisis. We are experiencing epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, and other preventable conditions while at the same time our health care system costs are spiraling higher...
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StrataRx: Data science and health(care)
Mike Loukides and Jim Stogdill | August 3, 2012
Source: O-Reilly Radar
We are launching a conference at the intersection of health, health care, and data. Why? Our health care system is in crisis. We are experiencing epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, and other preventable conditions while at the same time our health care system costs are spiraling higher...
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