Bursting the Big Data Bubble
A Big Data analytics company CEO exposes some common, and potentially harmful, misunderstandings about Big Data.
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.
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SAP HANA does Big Data...with ERP, CRM and BI savvy
Take a mega-vendor, give it a powerful in-memory Big Data product, combine with equal parts business software, and solutions that are (gasp!) enterprise-ready may result.
Big Data Events Goldrush
Technology conferences, both announced and taking place, are showcasing Big Data in a big way this week.
Big Data’s big week
During a single week in usually hum-drum July, a slew of companies had a Big Data beach party bash. Big Data, BI, Database and Cloud companies went crazy with partnership announcements and a new version of an in-memory database was born.
Moving from Big Data to Smart Data (ZDNet Hot Topics webcast)
In this Webcast, Opera Solutions CEO Arnab Gupta and I discuss how machine learning technology helps organizations derive far higher value form their data than merely processing and aggregating the data can. Find out how Opera does it, and learn how you can too.
Webtrends, Loggly explain Hadoop’s shortcomings
Are the downsides of batch mode the elephant in the room for Hadoop? Two data-focused companies, with different products and models, make clear why real-time analytics force Hadoop to take a back seat.
Office 2013 brings BI, Big Data to Windows 8 tablets
Microsoft now has a mobile BI story. Excel 2013, PowerPivot and a new Excel-based version of Power View make it happen.
Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies
Getting over the gee-whiz factor of Big Data can be tough. Enumerating important Big Data sources and technologies can give us a good start in moving the discussion forward.
Microsoft’s Big Data Plans: Acknowledge, Embrace, Integrate
Microsoft had its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this week, and over 16,000 people were there. So was Big Data.
Cleversafe launches Hadoop without HDFS; Jaspersoft brings disconnected report editing
Clever data storage for Hadoop and offline data storage for reports mark new releases today from Cleversafe and Jaspersoft.