Big (Data) Wheel Keep on Turning
The alacrity with which analysts, vendors, customers and even the popular press have jumped on the big data bandwagon over…
Two Fun Big Data Videos Every Techie Should Watch
With this post I would like to introduce two videos I recommend any enterprise technologist watch. Both are from the…
Big Data and Hadoop: a Webinar to Help You Start Your Deployment
Carahsoft is hosting a webinar that will include an introduction and context by me on the topic of Big Data…
A Social Media Listening Post – Closing the Feedback Loop
With businesses becoming increasingly sensitive to customer opinion of their brand, monitoring consumer feedback is becoming ever more important.
Report from the 2012 Hadoop Summit
Abstract: One of the hottest technology trends in 2012 is Big Data Analytics. Nowhere was that more evident than at…
100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?
University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on a mission—to measure everything his body consumes, performs,…
Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream (Part Two)
Did you miss out? It’s ok. We’ll fill you in. Part one of this two-part exploration of Hadoop’s affect on…
Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop
Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous…
Fascination with Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream. (Part One)
Interest in Hadoop – a free open-source Java-based framework from the Apache Software Foundation that supports the distribution and running…
Text Analytics, Big Data and the Keys to ROI
When you were a child, and the grownups asked what you wanted to do when you grew up, you said,…
