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Tag: Big Data

Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it

GigaOm kicked off some good discussion in Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it:

Hadoop is everywhere. For better or worse, it has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard.… Continued

July 12, 2012
How big data might mean better business for big banks

How big data might mean better business for big banks: interesting vision how banks and credit card companies can use publicly available data and big analytics to separate bad from good risks for the retail lending business. There are some more links in that article that are worth following.… Continued

July 6, 2012
HP yokes Autonomy, Vertica together for big data push

As expected: HP yokes Autonomy, Vertica together for big data push

November 29, 2011
Oracle doing Hadoop and NoSQL

Oracle docs show plans for Hadoop, NoSQL about the Oracle Loader for Hadoop, and Added Session: Big Data Appliance about Oracle’s Big Data Appliance.

September 30, 2011
(Big) Data Pyramid

Something not completely technical – but still relevant: Is That Information…And Do I Care?

the discussion of how data and information relate actually continues to knowledge and wisdom as well. We’ve summarized the distinction between these concepts below based on Hey’s paper and Dr.… Continued

September 23, 2011
Focus on Big Data and Exadata Mini

Oracle Openworld must be close, because the rumour mill starts heating up… Piper Jaffray is predicting that Oracle will release an Exadata Mini machine that will fit under ones desk (via DBMS2). And Jean-Pierre Dijcks compiled a list of Big Data related sessions at Openworld, Big Data may very well be the key note topic, I hear, so it’s worth spending some time at these sessions.

September 19, 2011
Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics

David Menninger writes a nice intro to Splunk in Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics:

Splunk focuses on a specific segment of the big-data market: machine-generated data. This type of data originates constantly from many sources throughout an organization and in large quantities.… Continued

September 12, 2011
“Big data” has jumped the shark

I’m apparently not the only one having difficulties succinctly defining what Big Data is – let alone is there agreement in the industry, as to what the Big Data category should or should not include, as seen in Monash’s latest rambling “Big data” has jumped the shark.… Continued

September 11, 2011
Big Data Application Platform

Nati Shalom throws one in for Big Data Application Platforms:

Big Data Application platforms are unique in the sense that they need to be able handle massive amounts of data and therefore need to come with built-in support for things like Map/Reduce, Integration with external NoSQL databases, parallel processing, and data distribution services and on top of that, they should make the use of those new patterns simple from a development perspective.Below… Continued

September 6, 2011