Inside the Briefcasehe concept of big data is simple, as most good ideas are. Big data gives us the ability to use commodity computing to process distributed queries across multiple data sets and return result sets in record time. Cloud computing provides the underlying engine, typically through the use of Hadoop.
Featured BlogsTweet SOURCE: TechNewsWorld With the frequent focus on mobile machinations and desktop deliberations here in the Linux blogosphere, it would be easy to assume that all else in the FOSS fiefdom is relatively conflict-free. Easy, perhaps — but dead wrong, nonetheless. Case in point: cars. There’s a growing movement to apply the open source model […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsWell it’s been a disconcerting kind of week here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because of all the darn construction going on down at the Google+ Grill. First it was the hammering giving Linux Girl a headache. Then, on Wednesday, she walked in after lunch and could barely recognize the place. What is this interface sorcery, she wants to know?
Blogs, Featured BlogsWhile a service-oriented architectural approach could save you millions, the term’s baggage almost guarantees a no
Featured BlogsWe love new technology, whether in the form of software or devices, though planning, strategy, and architecture aren’t as universally adored. But if you don’t understand both, you can count on huge project disasters as you move into the cloud. Unfortunately, far too many in IT are blindly in love with technology, especially as they consider the new-to-them cloud. I see this problem every day, so please heed this friendly warning.
Featured BlogsBig Data is a hot topic in the data management world. Recently, I’ve seen press and vendors describing it with the words crucial, tremendous opportunity, overcoming vexing challenges, and enabling technology.
With the rise of cloud computing, we’re seeing more of a new breed of extremely lightweight company, unencumbered by capital investments, acting as a broker of services assembled from offerings drawn from or supported by third-party providers.
Featured BlogsWhat are the top 6 myths? That open source software will enter every market, is inherently innovative, it improves faster than commercial software, that it has less lock-in, that it’s free and that it has little benefit if one is not involved in the community. IDC calls these ideas “myths” but acknowledges there’s more than a grain of truth to all of them
Featured BlogsIn the past few years, big data has essentially gone from zero to hero in the enterprise tech world. Except for one small thing: it hasn’t, really.
Featured BlogsThere’s nothing like a rant to get the conversational ball rolling here in the Linux blogosphere, and if it can be a rant from Linus Torvalds himself, well, it doesn’t get much better than that.
Blogs, Featured BlogsI was going through some TDWI material and found what they considered the ‘Best of BI’ in 2011. They mentioned mobile BI as being one of the top. With mobile devices being a key piece of a business today, and Gartner mentioning that by 2013
Featured BlogsOnce again, individuals are ahead of their employers (and IT) in adapting to and exploiting the new technologies
Featured BlogsSince it launched two years ago, the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack has won over an impressive array of tech backers, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Citrix. But not IBM.
Rob Bearden, new CEO of Hortonworks, the Hadoop startup that spun out of Yahoo in June 2011 , knows a thing or two about making open source software profitable.
Featured Blogs, NewsService level agreements, or SLAs, are the glue that holds cloud computing engagements together. SLAs were pretty straightforward in the days of traditional data center computing: guarantee me this much uptime from your system or application.
Featured BlogsInspiring. Human. Achievable. We are constantly being asked by our clients how they can create a Customer Experience that is consistent. Here are two examples, one outlining what not to do; the other outlining a much better approach.
Featured BlogsCloud computing means more than simply saving on IT implementation costs. Cloud offers enormous opportunity for new innovation, and even disruption of entire industries.
One of the major issues that IT people have with e-discovery is that it consumes a lot of IT’s time that would be better spent providing real value to the business.
Featured BlogsThe effort to drag the health-care industry into the technology age trudges onward, and it’s still not clear whether the nation’s 500,000 to 600,000 physicians will successfully make the journey.
In a recent Enterprise Strategy Group study, we asked participants to identify the biggest drivers for deploying a new data analytics platform for big data requirements and to tell us the greatest benefits they expected to realize as a result. We found this: Organizations are looking at new data analytics platforms as a way to cut costs.
Featured BlogsOracle for years has seemed impervious to cloud computing. First Larry Ellison dismissed it. Then he sort of touted it, his version at least. But all along, Oracle was growing nicely. The industry chatter didn’t seem to matter. Big companies buy big software systems.
Featured BlogsEMC ties together the cloud, datacenter virtualization, and business process management in their latest release.
Featured BlogsI’ve been working on a big idea for several months. The genesis was an internal collaboration about the future of enterprise suites versus business process management suites (BPMS).
Featured BlogsAs always, it was a huge pleasure to catch up with customers, colleagues, analysts, partners, and competitors at one of Europe’s largest BI conferences. It was a great show overall, and I came away even more optimistic about analytics for the coming year.
Featured BlogsIf you don’t think that Amazon Web Services is the king of cloud, just look at what other cloud companies are announcing this week. Even paragons of the private cloud world are trying to cloak themselves in the glow cast by Amazon, which is squarely in public cloud realm.
Featured BlogsMore often than anyone cares to admit, salespeople are selling a services capability that doesn’t exist — at least not yet. This is usually because the customer has asked for something unique or the services group within the organization doesn’t have the capacity available to support that particular request.
Blogs, Featured BlogsAll those embarrassing photos from the weekend, chats with long-lost pals from grade school and time-wasting games of Texas Hold ’Em and Farmville are worth a lot of money.
Featured BlogsTweet The stakes have never been higher for suppliers of interactive business intelligence. Our benchmark research on business analytics finds that businesses overwhelmingly (89% of participants) want simpler analytics and metrics, and usability (57%) and functionality (47%) are the two most important evaluation criteria according to our Value Index vendor and product assessment methodology. In […]
Featured BlogsWhen HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced late last year that it would open source webOS, it was hard not to be skeptical. After all, it would be all too easy for a company to whitewash its own abandonment of a project by grandly “donating it to the community.” – blog by Katherine Noyes
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe funny thing is that for all kinds of reasons, customer service has been the lynchpin for what we’ve all called Social CRM. That means going well beyond the contact center and well beyond the ordinary customer service interactions that we’ve come to…. love/hate/pick one.
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