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The Data Economy: With GemFire XD, Pivotal closes the Big Data analytics loop
The team at Pivotal made a handful of announcements today focused on the Big Data and analytics layer of its enterprise platform play. Namely, the company announced Pivotal HD 2, the latest version of its Hadoop distribution that incorporates HAWQ, a modified version of the Greenplum database, for SQL analytics. Version 2 is based on ...
The Data Economy: Does the growing influence of CMOs portend a wave of Big Data apps?
The Data Economy is an occasional analysis column by Wikibon Senior Analyst Jeff Kelly covering the business of Big Data. In Wikibon’s recent market forecast, we determined the current Big Data applications market stands at $1.7 billion. That sounds big, but the reality is that most of that revenue is derived from the sale of ...
GM recall debacle illustrates consequences of poor data analytics
No doubt there are numerous factors that led to the current General Motors recall debacle. But one of them is certainly poor data analytics. According to media reports, since 2003 General Motors received over 250 complaints related to an ignition defect that caused a number of vehicles to stall while traveling at high rates of ...
Is Hadoop Ready for the Enterprise?
The big news in the Hadoop world today was the release of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0. It boasts a YARN-based architecture designed to make HDP a true multi-application platform. That means in addition to batch analytics jobs, HDP can also tackle SQL-like analytics, graph analysis and other analytic workloads. HDP is the result of a ...
Is “Analytics for All” Finally at Hand?
Business intelligence vendors have been promising to extend the power of analytics to regular business users for years. But that promise has gone largely unfulfilled. While exact figures are difficult to come by, by most estimates BI usage rates within the enterprise stall out around 18 percent to 20 percent. The reasons for this lack ...
The Better Model for Hadoop: Open Source or Proprietary Approach?
There’s a debate going on inside the Hadoop community. On one side are open source purists who believe that data infrastructure software should be free and open with revenue generated solely from services. On the other side of the debate are those who feel the only viable long-term business model is selling proprietary software built ...
Innovation and Value in the Data Economy
The innovative use of data is already underway, the result of which we are calling the Data Economy.
All Data Is Relevant Now
The Wall Street Journal posted a story this week about the NSA data mining program and the legal framework that supports it. The story zeroed in on what it characterized as the evolving interpretation of one word – ‘relevant’ – in the Patriot Act and how it enables the NSA and other government agencies to ...
Expect a Ripping Good YARN at Hadoop Summit
Hadoop Summit 2013 kicks off tomorrow and expect YARN to be a major topic of conversation. Three years in the making, YARN is essentially a new operating system for Hadoop that will allow the open source Big Data framework to break free from the shackles of MapReduce. Perhaps that was a bit harsh towards MapReduce. ...
10gen Rides MongoDB Momentum to the Enterprise
MongoDB’s success with web and mobile developers in the start-up community is well known. The open source NoSQL database recently surpassed 4 million downloads and is in use at start-ups like Foursquare, VisibleGains, Shopcade and Gilt. Increasingly, however, MongoDB is getting attention from developers inside larger, more “traditional” enterprises, such as MetLife. The 145 ...