Big Data and the Cloud
One of the trends hitting analytics is the adoption of Big Data. One of the theories that I raised a few years ago was that one of the side effects of web companies is that they generate a lot of data....
View ArticleWhy BI in the Cloud?
Business Intelligence (BI) has been around for a while but recently, the interest in analytics and tools to support it have become increasingly popular. Previously, only large enterprises were able to...
View Article2012 is the year of Big Data
This is an article that I wrote recently that was published in the Cloud Computing Journal. While 2011 may have been the year of the cloud, 2012 is proving to be the year that Big Data breaks through...
View ArticleBig Confusion about Big Data
Not only do people often confuse what exactly the term “Big Data” means, but the dizzying array of products that are out there that solve for Big Data problems add to the confusion. So what’s the...
View ArticlePreparing for the Storm
In a previous post, I described Big Data as containing certain criteria: Volume, Velocity and Structure (probably worth revising to Variety as that is now more commonly used). While Hadoop is currently...
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