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Tag: Big Data

  • 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. I think some might already be…

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  • HP yokes Autonomy, Vertica together for big data push

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

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  • 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.

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  • (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. Russell Ackoff work with one of the most common representations of…

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  • 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,…

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  • 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. The other common characteristic of machine-generated data is that generally it…

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  • “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. Over time Big Data as a term will…

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  • 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…

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  • Structure Big Data Roundup

    Good number of articles from Derrick Harris over at GigaOm rounding up the Structure Big Data Conference. First, there’s a look at Hadoop, Cloudera, and alternatives to Cloudera from IBM, DataStax, Hadapt etc. in As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin, and second there’s a piece about Why Big Data Startups Should Take…

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  • Cloudera’s Olson Says Data Will Transform Industry

    Great Bloomberg interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on open source and big data. Via the 451 group

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