Web Data is Big Data
There's a lot of data on the Web crucial to Big Data analyses, but it's not all neatly packaged into feeds and APIs. Kapow Katalyst brings this data into the Big Data fold.
Big on Data
Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew Brust
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
Latest Posts
SAP HANA teams with Opera Solutions for real-time packaged analytics
Germany's SAP and New Jersey-based Opera Solutions partner to deliver predictive analytics in real time.
Big Data in the Physical World: Will It Trump Online Analytics?
Big Data is typically associated with the online world, but where it may be biggest is in brick and mortar retail.
Hadapt partners with Cloudera, puts MPP and Hadoop side-by-side
The Big Data world has no shortage of hybrid solutions, joining BI and relational technology with Hadoop and MapReduce. Hadapt offers a hybrid too, but prefers technology coexistence to subordination.
Is the iPad the new normal for data visualization?
Gartner publishes its report on Mobile BI and the winning vendor finds mobile is the driving factor in more and more of its pipeline.
Teradata to acquire cloud digital marketing provider eCircle
Teradata announces yet another acquisition in the digital marketing space, going all-in on value-added Big Data for the CMO.
Google's BigQuery goes public
The company that invented MapReduce makes its cloud-based dimensional query offering public. But is it really a Big Data tool?
Big Data: The billable project angle
Tellago CEO Jesus Rodriguez discusses the consulting project opportunities in Big Data and shines a light on his favorite Big Data technologies and companies.
Cloudera partners with IBM, as its own influence grows
IBM has a new partnership with Cloudera, and it's hardly the Palo Alto startup's first such deal. Is Cloudera becoming the de facto arbiter of Big Data credibility?
Teradata and SAS partner on analytics appliance
Two lions of BI have allied, bringing analytics into the parallel processing, in-memory, appliance-based fast track.