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Big Data
 Cloud Computing provides the technology foundation to capitalize on Big Data for corporate success. The flexible infrastructure offered through Cloud Computing--combined with increased storage and processing power of new technologies in the Cloud—provide the rich, agile compute platfo...Oct. 11, 2012 01:04 PM EDT Reads: 895 |
 Data Scientist Drew Conway tackles the problem of deciding which programming languages are the most popular in an interesting way: by comparing the number of projects tagged in GitHub with each language, and the number of questions in StackOverflow about the language. The former is a m...Oct. 11, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 517 |
 With 2nd International Big Data Expo (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo), due to open in four weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Sp...Oct. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,389 |
 Scott Houston, chief executive officer for GreenButton, and Stephen Spector, cloud evangelist for Dell, Inc., will be co-presenting "Game Changer - High Perfomance Computing in the Cloud For Everyone," at the 11th International Cloud Computing Expo. Scott and Stephen will discuss how c...Oct. 9, 2012 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 690 |
 The “consumerization of IT” is a topic we’ve heard a lot about recently – especially when it comes to “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).” One area that is less talked about, yet a growing trend under the “consumerization” umbrella, is the use of free, consumer-type file transfer services i...Oct. 5, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,245 |
 I gave a talk titled Big Data – Trends and Challenges on Sept 27 in San Jose. This was organized as a meet-up event by Datapipe and Compassites Software. Datapipe provides cloud infrastructure services to clients whereas Compassites Software (where I am a board director) is a tec...Oct. 1, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,069 |
 What's "Cloud 2.0"? Who's behind "SHadoop"? Why is the Cloud so important to the Big Data boom? Are you turning your data into dollars? Which cloud model is right for your company? Register to attend 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley and get your questions answered November 5...Oct. 1, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,260 |
 In the past few weeks I visited several Cloud and Big Data conferences that provided me with a lot of insight. Some people only consider the technology side of Big Data technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra. The real driver however is a different one. Business analysts have discovered ...Sep. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,554 |
 IBM Monday said it’s going to buy Butterfly Software, a privately held data
analysis and migration software firm in Maidenhead, England.
It would be nice to know what IBM is really doing with its stockpile of
analytics acquisitions or if it’s just taking them off the market. It ex...Sep. 25, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,199 |
 Bob Gourley, editor of CTOvision as well as founder and CTO of Crucial Point, LLC, was recently interviewed by WashingtonExec, where he shared his views on emerging information technology, government needs, and Big Data. The interview is reproduced below: How does Bob Gourle... Sep. 24, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,170 |
 It’s become increasingly clear that Big Data, and the tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing it, are transforming the business landscape. McKinsey released a report in 2011 that projects 40 percent growth in global data generated per year. This is all well and good, but more...Sep. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,087 |
 You dear readers are some of the most informed technologists on the planent. I think few things surprise you about Big Data. But many of us studying this concept are in a continual search for ways to explain key issues to non technologists, and that can be hard to do at times.
Master...Sep. 17, 2012 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,288 |
 In the recent release of '2012 Hype Cycle Of Emerging Technologies,' research analyst Gartner evaluated several technologies to come up with a list of technologies that will dominate the future . "Big Data" related technologies form a significant portion of the list, in particular the ...Sep. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,686 |
 According to Dan Vesset, program vice president for IDC's Business Analytics Solutions, the business analytics software market "has crossed the chasm into the mainstream mass market."
In 2011, Vesset explains, the business analytics market extended its post-2009 recovery with anothe...Sep. 12, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,776 |
 Only eight weeks lie between now and the next US Presidential election and the next Internationl Cloud Expo – the latter to be held Nov 5-8 at the Santa Clara (CA) Convention Center.
Politics often become part of cloud discussions, particularly in the areas of open source and its un...Sep. 11, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,126 |
 The good news about the Big Data market is that we generally all agree on the definition of Big Data, which has come to be known as data that has volume, velocity and variety where businesses need to collect, store, manage and analyze in order to derive business value or otherwise know...Sep. 10, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,820 Replies: 3 |
 I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, services and integration mechanisms. With the proliferation of smart phone and tablets, mobile devices are accessing new an...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,027 |
 I’d appreciate your views on the most important tech blogs, the ones you find are of critical importance to keeping you informed on emerging technologies relevant to your decision-making. I have a list of my favorites embedded below. These are the blogs at the forefront of top... Sep. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,312 |
 Close to a year has passed since the UK government published their Cloud Computing Strategy which included a ‘cloud first’ policy similar to the one implemented in the United Sta...Sep. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,547 |
 In the past two years, international IT giants, including IBM, Oracle, EMC and SAP, have been engaged in an upsurge of acquisition in the big data market, spending more than $1.5 billion in acquiring related data management and analysis companies. Big data becomes a new hot term after ...Sep. 7, 2012 03:14 AM EDT Reads: 1,254 |
 "A major goal in developing NuoDB has been the ability to scale elastically on hundreds of cores while also providing better performance than traditional centralized OLTP databases like MySQL,” said Barry Morris, CEO and Founder of NuoDB, as his latest start-up recently released Beta 8...Sep. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 996 |
 Some estimates suggest that by 2015 the digital universe will grow to 8 zettabytes of data (1 Zettabyte = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). Much has been written in recent years about “Big Data” and the implications for Information management and data analytics. Sep. 5, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,960 |
 1010data, Inc., a market leader in sharing, analyzing, and monetizing Big Data, today announced that Frank Fanzilli has joined the company's Board of Directors. As the first global CIO for Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Fanzilli has extensive, first-hand experience evaluating, purc...Sep. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 863 |
 “Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility,” observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “While cloud adoption remains in the early stages,” Weir conti...Sep. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,443 |
 BI Research, Teradata Aster, and Hortonworks are teaming up to provide clear guidance on Big Data architecture and product integration to bring more value to businesses. Attend this discussion to learn more about:
MapReduce for the data scientist: the Hadoop/Hive and RDBMS approaches
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 Do you think they truly understood just how fast the data infrastructure marketplace was going to change? That is the question that comes to mind when I think about Donald Feinberg and Mark Beyer at Gartner who, last year, wrote about how the data warehouse market is undergoing a trans...Aug. 31, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,719 |
 As of this week, Google BigQuery is offering Big Data developers new ways to work with data by adding two new features. Introduced in limited preview in November 2011 and made publicly available May 1, 2012, BigQuery is Google's chosen way to "bring Big Data analytics to all businesses...Aug. 30, 2012 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,067 |
 Do you remember service-oriented architecture (SOA)? This concept led to tremendous new capabilities and efficient, mission-focused designs. Enterprises established architectures in which application interfaces, logic and data were separated and smartly reusable. After the term went ma...Aug. 27, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,011 |
 “Big Data” is everywhere. What does it mean? In this article we discuss the impact of cloud and big data technology have on the application performance monitoring space. The number of components, the diversity of the data, the analysis frequency and data granularity results into an ex...Aug. 27, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,700 |
 A big thank-you to all the R users out there who voted for Revolution R Enterprise in DataWeek Awards. We're so pleased to be recognized by the voters and the DataWeek judging panel with the Top Innovator Award for Data Science Technology. We're looking forward to the awards ceremony n...Aug. 24, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,076 |
 Big Data is the data too large, complex, and fast-moving for conventional information infrastructure to handle. There’s been a lot of buzz about investment in cutting edge Big Data solutions and start ups, and for good reason. Venture capital for Big Data is sizable and growin... Aug. 20, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,553 |
 Let me read between the lines of Gartner Hype-Cycle for Cloud Computing – 2012. According to my reading this is what Gartner really wants to say. I agree with 4 of them, am doubtful about one and disagree with one.
Gartner has stated these points using a different language. I am being...Aug. 20, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,525 |
| We have entered the “Age of Big Data” according to a recent New York Times article. This comes as no surprise to most organizations already struggling with the onslaught of data coming from an increasing number of sources and at an increasing rate. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe Study r... Aug. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,989 |
 In case you missed them, here are some articles from June of particular interest to R users. The FDA goes on the record that it's OK to use R for drug trials. A review of talks at the useR! 2012 conference. Using the negative binomial distribution to convert monthly fecundity into the ...Aug. 19, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,781 |
 CTOlabs.com is a research tool information on technologies, concepts and companies of interest to enterprise IT professionals. The CTOlabs Disruptive IT List is a curated list of firms we believe hold the greatest potential for positive disruption in the enterprise IT space. Our wri... Aug. 19, 2012 07:36 AM EDT Reads: 1,195 |
 How important is Big Data? How important is structured data? To what extent will they be perceived as the same thing?
My own personal education in big data started a decade or so ago, when I interviewed Paul Saffo of the Instiute of the Future about sensor-based computing. He descr...Aug. 17, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 991 |
 "Impetus is a software services company, and we're focused on Big Data practice. What we are doing for enterprise organizations is helping them create Big Data architectures and helping them come up with solutions for their very critical business challenges," explained Anand Raman, VP ...Aug. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,921 |
| We're excited to announce the latest outpost of the Revolution Analytics team, with the opening of a new office in Singapore! This office will serve as the local HQ for Revolution Analytics serving our customers in the Asia-Pacific region. It was opened with the support of the support ... Aug. 16, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 823 |
 Customer engagement has long benefited from data and analytics. Knowing more about each of your customers, their attributes, preferences, behaviors and patterns, is essential to fostering meaningful engagement with them. As technologies advance, and more of people’s lives are lived onl...Aug. 16, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,414 |
 Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage ...Aug. 15, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,429 |
