We talk a lot about big data, but only analyze 1 percent of what’s available. In order to take advantage of the other 99 percent, we need to reconsider how we do big data. Many would be shocked to know that researchers analyze and gather insights from only 1 percent of the world’s data. That 1 percent of analyzed data has been the only driver of innovation and insights in what we now know as “big data.” The ...

Companies are finding that big data doesn't necessarily translate into easy success. Experts who specialize in computer-driven analysis of large streams of information say too many companies throw themselves into big-data projects, only to fall into common traps and end up with nothing to show for their efforts. Some 44% of information-technology professionals surveyed by business-software firm Infochimps I ...

With cloud, mobile, social and big data advances all happening at once and at lightning speed, how will shifts in technology impact the way businesses are run? According to Ginni Rometty, the first female CEO of IBM, it will change everything.Last night, speaking at an event organized by the nonprofit Council on Foreign Relations, Rometty predicted that data will be the basis of competitive advantage going ...

Intel today announced that it is joining the Hadoop ecosystem in a permanent way that will accelerate adoption of Hadoop by the broader enterprise market. While the news that Intel is going to offer an distribution that has been extended with features for security and improved performance is interesting enough, Intel’s arrival illustrates some broader trends at play in the world of Hadoop, namely that: Hado ...

Infosys launches BigDataEdge: New Platform Develops Enterprise Insights up to Eight Times Faster, Fosters Near Real-Time Decisions and Actions New York, February 20, 2013: Infosys today announced the launch of BigDataEdge to radically simplify the complex task of analyzing Big Data to discover relevant information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights from vast amounts of structured and ...

Now that Apache Hadoop is seven years old, use-case patterns for Big Data have emerged. In this post, I’m going to describe the three main ones (reflected in the post’s title) that we see across Cloudera’s growing customer base. Transformation Transformations (T, for short) are a fundamental part of BI systems: They are the process through which data is converted from a source format (which can be relationa ...

SUMMARY: It’s no secret that mobile, big data and cloud computing are transforming IT. Sanjay Poonen, president of SAP’s mobile division, says companies need a single unified strategy to tackle them, not three separate ones. There is widespread agreement—across the globe and in every industry—that mobile, big data, and cloud computing are the three cornerstone issues of tomorrow’s business environment. In f ...

When was the last time you felt you were taking a flight and getting an aerial view of the entire data landscape? And I don’t mean just the current fad of most-used glamorous word “Big Data”, but also the evolution of database systems since the 60s (CODASYL et al). For those who could not make it to the VOLTDB event, they apparently missed out a $5000.00 event that had Michael and team taking us on this fli ...