Big on Data

Instead of a data scientist, what if you only needed your GoogleBing-fu to analyze data in Hadoop? That may be a stretch, but it's exactly what Cloudera is working toward.

June 4, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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In last week's ZDNet "Great Debate," Robin Harris and I faced off on the question of whether "we need data scientists to make sense of this tidal wave of information." I think data scientists are important, but they're not the solution. What follows is my argument, in essay form.

May 22, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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SiSense announces a new version of its data visualization and BI database engine suite, along with major performance increases.

May 22, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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Data discovery rock star Tableau goes public on the NYSE, with ticker symbol "DATA." But will Tableau now grow or plateau?

May 17, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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Dell Software's SharePlex replication tool for Oracle now works with Hadoop, or anything else that can talk to a JMS queue.

May 14, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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With its 1.1 release, the "NewSQL" player strikes at the Microsoft ecosystem with ADO.NET, LINQ, and Entity Framework providers ... and a migration tool to poach databases from SQL Server.

May 8, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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Teradata Intelligent Memory combines RAM and disk for high-performance big data without the extreme requirement of exclusive in-memory operation.

May 8, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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Talend's open source data integration platform is available in a new release, sporting native MapReduce, a graphical mapper, and new NoSQL connectors.

May 7, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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A new version of the ubiquitous Lucene/Solr open-source search project is available now.

May 6, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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MapR optimizes HBase and starts distributing Lucene-powered search. SaaS data discovery provider 1010data ships new version.

May 1, 2013 by Andrew Brust

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