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A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop

May 10, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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The idea is that, though at any given instance the chance of a monkey typing a sonnet is essentially zero, with infinite instances it becomes almost certain. Anderson wanted to try this for himself but he didn’t have a million monkeys, a million typewriters, and infinite time and resources, so instead he used his home computer, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, and Hadoop to achieve the same results. [read more]

What Is Hadoop? Here is a 101 with Mike Olson

April 30, 2012 by Bob Gourley
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Mike points out that in the old days if you had a data problem you would write a big check for a massive piece of hardware and with any money left over you would by some very expensive but powerful software from Oracle. That box with software and data became your data temple and your analysis and conclusions were done there. [read more]

IBM Makes Big Data Deal for Vivisimo and Supports Cloudera Hadoop

April 27, 2012 by Mark Smith
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The Vivisimo acquisition is important for IBM because it has not had a substantive search technology for its information management portfolio that can operate across all types of information. Competitively this is critical; the demand for better search has led Oracle to expand its efforts with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and to acquire Endeca for more depth on structured data. [read more]

Datameer Provides End-user Focused BI Solutions for Big Data Analytics

April 10, 2012 by Bob Gourley
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I’ve met with the CEO (Stefan Groschupf) and other Datameer executives. I’ve also interacted with them in events like our Government Big Data Forum. Through these events plus demonstrations by some of their greatest engineers has led me to a few conclusions about Datameer. In general, I believe enterprise technologists should take note of this firm for several reasons. [read more]

The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage

April 1, 2012 by Neil Raden
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The shortage of data scientists to handle big data is overblown. Much of these activities are currently practiced, albeit without Hadoop and some other recent innovations. But the simple truth is that even data scientists spend a good portion of their day doing things that can be done by others. In addition, the demand for data scientists is hardly even across industries and those that require these skills already have them or know how to get them, either through employment, 3rd party analytics providers, purchased apps or consulting. [read more]

R and Hadoop: Step-by-step Tutorials

March 15, 2012 by David Smith
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At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline analyst and R user Jeffrey Breen gave a step-by-step guide to setting up an R and Hadoop infrastructure. Firstly, as a local virtual instance of Hadoop with R...then, as single-machine cloud-based instance with lots of RAM and CPU, using Amazon EC2. [read more]

3 Ways ‘Big Data Analytics’ Will Change Enterprise Performance Management

March 7, 2012 by Bernard Marr
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Success of companies – big or small – will increasingly depend on their ability to capture, analyse and gain insights from data. While Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) has always been about collecting, analysing and reporting of data to support management decision making, the emergence ‘Big Data Analytics’ is going to change EPM as we know it. [read more]

SDC @ Strata - Doug Cutting on Hadoop, Apache and Open Source

February 29, 2012 by Cliff Figallo
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The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit organization hosting about 100 different projects. It tries to promote the development of healthy communities around projects. Quality and usage, Doug maintains, are present in healthy communities. [read more]

Beyond Hadoop - Completing the Big Data Picture

February 29, 2012 by MaryAnne Sinville
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Unified information access (UIA) provides new insights and a complete view of a business that other approaches can’t mach. UIA unifies structured data and unstructured content – replacing fragmented silos with the ability to index, join and present all enterprise information, complementing and extending existing IT investments. [read more]

What Is a Data Scientist (and What Isn't)?

February 17, 2012 by Neil Raden
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Certified Data Scientist? I don’t think so. Fellow of Quantitiative Analysts Society? Better. Data Alchemist? I like that, but it’s not really comprehensive enough. Let me have your suggestions. [read more]

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Business Intelligence – The Power of Human Emotion

February 15, 2012 by Leena Kamath
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2011 was noted as the year that demonstrated the “power of the human emotion.” It was the year where human emotion exhibited itself through mediums that go beyond satisfaction surveys. Here are a sample pick of my favorite emerging business -- technologies in the areas of Business Intelligence and analytics! Read on... [read more]

Big Data: Will Open Source Software Challenge BI & Analytics Software Vendors

February 4, 2012 by Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.
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Predictive Analytics has been billed as the next big thing for almost fifteen years, but hasn’t gained mass acceptance so far the way ERP and CRM solutions have. One of the main reason for this is the high upfront investment required in Software, Hardware and Talent for implementing a Predictive Analytics solution. As a result, only... [read more]

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors: The flying robot video you absolutely must watch

February 2, 2012 by Bob Gourley
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As a technologist I would like to remind you all that every future use case for incredibly capable systems like this will involve IT with moving parts, and all IT with moving parts requires IT guys to fix them when they break. So guess what CIOs, increasingly you are going to be the person that is turned to for robot repair. [read more]

Improving Hadoop Performance with Optimization, CDH3 Update 3, and CDH4

January 31, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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CDH4, which will be available in beta shortly, has an even wider array of improvements and additions based on customer demands and industry trends. One of the biggest changes will be the inclusion of a High Availability Namenode so that if the namenode fails you won’t lose the whole cluster or your data. [read more]

Cloudera Day in DC

January 30, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many successful open... [read more]

Big Data Is More than Hadoop

January 25, 2012 by David Menninger
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Hadoop, a well-publicized technology for dealing with big data, gets a lot of attention (including from me), but there are other technologies being used to store and analyze big data. The research data shows an environment that is still evolving. [read more]