SDC @ Strata – Doug Cutting on Hadoop, Apache and Open Source
Doug Cutting addressed the Wednesday plenary audience for 10 minutes and spoke about Hadoop. He carries the title of "Architect"…
Ring in the New Year with New Data Products
For web-based businesses, and of course, those with a web presence (which is just about everyone) there’s a goldmine of…
The Next Generation BI Professional – Things Will Be Very Different
The next generation business intelligence professional is not one who has experienced complex deployments, lengthy project time frames and unpredictable…
Master Data Management: Does an Effective Solution Exist?
by Brenda SomichDespite being a term that has only reached popularity in the last decade, Master Data Management (MDM) is…
‘Google-like IT Automation For the Rest of Us:’ Puppet and Chef
Wired’s Cade Metz just published an interesting piece on the Puppet and Chef projects, open source-based online services for automating…
Experimentation, Open Source and Big Data
An interesting article in BusinessWeek on Big Data recently caught my eye. The article mentions different applications that allow organizations to…
Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
Building a Text Analytics Command Center for Social & Private Data Analysis
I met with Mehrshad, our CIO, Social Intelligence Architect & VP of Product Management, to talk about a new concept…
Quickly Deploy a Well-Engineered Apache Hadoop Solution to a Production Environment
As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday’s announcement by Dell
How Open is Too Open?
If you’re in the technology or information management spaces, you’ve probably heard the axiom “Information wants to be free.” While…
