Vendors ready to pounce as IT managers struggle to deal with massive dataset Among the continued maturation of cloud computing and increasing competition between tablet manufacturers, 2011 is expected to see higher use of multi-terabyte datasets for business intelligence and analytics, otherwise known as "big data." According to statistics from IDC, data use is expected to grow by as much as 44 times, amoun ...

Innovation around the management of large data sets is coming from the cloud, such as through MapReduce and Hadoop InfoWorld's own Pete Babb provided some good coverage around the "analytics cloud" recently debuted by IBM, called Blue Insight. You can think of Blue Insight as a system that gathers data from those who use it and externalizes the data to those who need it, doing so on a cloud -- a private clo ...

Hadoop and other tools can unlock critical insights from unfathomable volumes of corporate and external data In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics, and other actionable information to help decide on their next move. Those data sets, along with their associated tools, platforms, and a ...

Loraine Lawson spoke with Richard Daley, founder and CEO of the open source data-integration and BI vendor, Pentaho. In this week's Q&A, he explains what Hadoop is and how it's used to tackle “big data problems.” Next week, he'll share how Hadoop changes things for data integration... Follow this posting on ITBusinessEdge..... Find other postings from ITBusinessEdge... ...

The next big trend sounds nebulous, but it's not so fuzzy when you view the value proposition from the perspective of IT professionals Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition. As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a familiar ...