All self-respecting executives of large businesses demand the best in attorneys and accountants. Would they manage without them? Would they buy do-it-yourself software and let untrained staff members fill in the blanks? Not on your life! So why do these same executives leave data analysis to just about anybody? We all know that we face serious legal and financial risks when doing business. Get some things w ...

Big Data is the result of practically everything in the world being monitored and measured, creating data faster than the available technologies can store, process or manage it. Since it is a lot more intuitive to represent information as a “file” than a relational object, there has been a surge of unstructured data, making up as much as 80% of new data we must manage. Organizations are struggling to manage ...

This is just amazing – the kind of growth we have seen at BigDataCloud, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the help & support from all of you, BigDataCloud readers/members. Thanks to all of you for making it happen! For the meetup on this Thursday, September 8th, for the first time, we are having an industry track. We would be looking at various Big Data solutions as practiced in sprawling indus ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to const ...

We are witnessing stupendous demand for Big Data & Cloud professionals while on the other hand, data centric professionals, who are scarce to begin with, don’t have a dedicated job board to go to. Thus supporting this need of both employers and professionals, we decided to open up a job board on BigDataCloud.com. Employers can post their Big Data & Cloud jobs while professionals can upload their resumes. Fo ...

We are very excited to share with you that today we announced our company, Aster Data, is being acquired by Teradata, who as you all know commands the #1 position in data warehousing. Together, we will tackle the massive opportunity in the big data and big data analytics market. Upon close, Aster Data will become part of the Teradata organization and our products will become part of the Teradata family of p ...

I always get a kick out of it when people refer to data centers as this big warehouse of “data storage” and nothing else. I suppose it helps some people relate to what is on all of those computers residing inside. As much as readers here know that there is much more to the data center than just the data — the data is what is being protected and provided for within. The amount of data stored within devices i ...

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 ...

We are in a Renaissance for computer science, engineering, and learning from data right now. The scale of data and computations is an important issue, but the data age is less about the raw size of your data, and more about the cool stuff you can do with it. Now that there is so much data, it is time to unlock its value. Really neat things are happening already—like the way the people of the world can educa ...