NoSQL for Competitive Hiring Advantage
Regardless of your location or industry, hiring technical talent is challenging. This is particularly true in areas like Silicon Valley, where 59% of employers plan to add workers. Companies typically...
View ArticleHadoop is in the Mind of the Beholder
This post was jointly authored by Merv Adrian (@merv) and Nick Heudecker (@nheudecker) and appears on both blogs. In the early days of Hadoop (versions up through 1.x), the project consisted of two...
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BI Summit Roundup: Big Data Confusion Reigns
The Gartner BI Summits are an ideal venue to connect with vendors and end users not just in BI, but also the general Big Data space. Last week in Las Vegas I led two great roundtable discussions on the...
View ArticleWhat’s Beyond MapReduce? It Depends.
Hadoop, or the fundamental concept behind it, has now existed for ten years. In 2004, Google released the original MapReduce paper. This paper resulted in the development of Hadoop, which helped spur...
View ArticleBenefits and Risks in Curated Open Source
Today, Aerospike announced its in-memory NoSQL DBMS is available under the AGPL license, the same license used by a few of its competitors. According to Aerospike, there were a number of reasons to...
View ArticleDon’t Forget the Hadoop Developers
Over the last two years, several companies have rushed to get SQL-on-Hadoop products or projects to market. Having a familiar SQL interface makes the data stored in Hadoop more accessible, and...
View ArticleSpark Restarts the Data Processing Race
It’s still early days for Apache Spark, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that based on the corporate sponsorship at Spark Summit. For the second conference for a very early technology, the list of...
View ArticleThe Big Data A-Ha Moment is Only the Beginning
If Big Data is going to remake an industry, insurance is certainly a great candidate. With massive amounts of historical data as well as emerging IoT-based data sources, insurance is well positioned to...
View ArticleCloudera-Teradata Partnership Highlights Hadoop Reality
Last week, Cloudera and Teradata announced an expanded partnership that extends Teradata’s Unified Data Architecture to Cloudera’s products. The announcement also includes tighter software integration...
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Big Data Challenges Move from Tech to the Organization
This year I had the opportunity to lead our predictions for big data. Unlike most predictions this time of year, we don’t just look ahead for the coming 12 months. The effects of innovation, changes in...
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