Jeffrey Kelly

As Wikibon’s lead Big Data analyst, Jeff Kelly applies a critical eye to trends and developments in the Big Data and business analytics markets, with a strong focus on helping practitioners deliver business value. Jeff’s research includes market analysis, emerging technologies, enterprise Big Data case studies, and more. He also appears frequently on theCUBE to share his insights. Prior to joining Wikibon, Jeff spent seven years as a writer and editor at TechTarget, where covered a number of business and IT topics including IT services, mobile computing, data management and business intelligence. He holds a BA from Providence College and an MA from Northeastern University.

Latest from Jeffrey Kelly

For CIOs, Time to Confront Shadow IT

Nobody likes to be undermined. But that’s what’s happening to corporate IT departments across industries thanks to shadow IT projects. Via: Wikibon Infographics According to a survey of the Wikibon community, fully 60% of respondents cited at least some level of spending on technology and services taking place outside of a centralized IT group. A ...

Be Not Afraid, But Big Data Analytics is a Game of Risk

The definition of insanity, so said Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That applies to life, love and, yes, Big Data Analytics. Think about it. If you put a Toyota Camry engine in a Ferrari and expected it to perform like a Ferrari should, you’d be ...

Cloudera Releases CDH4 and More Robust Hadoop Management Software

Anybody who thinks Cloudera might be losing its edge should probably think again. While the upcoming Hortonworks Data Platform and Hadoop on Microsoft Windows has the industry buzzing, Cloudera today released the fourth version of its Apache Hadoop distribution and a significantly enhanced Cloudera Manager … and the results are impressive. The Palo Alto-based vendor ...

Vertica 6 Aims to Be Enterprise Big Data Analytics Hub

Vertica released the latest version of its analytic database platform earlier this week and the spotlight was clearly trained on data access. Vertica 6.0 significantly expands the platform’s ability to federate data from outside sources for analysis, including Hadoop and HP’s own Autonomy IDOL platform, through its FlexStore architecture, according to the company. Vertica users ...

For SAP, It’s Now a Big Data World

In his keynote at SAPPHIRE this morning, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe made three predictions. Two of them – that within five years we will live in a completely mobile, cloud-based world – were of the relatively safe variety. The third was a bit bolder. Within five years, he said, all the world’s data will ...

Opera Solutions Adds SAP HANA to its Analytics-as-a-Service Repertoire

Opera Solutions announced this morning that it will incorporate SAP’s in-memory database HANA into its Analytics-as-a-Service offerings. The combination of HANA and Opera’s advanced data mining capabilities – which centers around what the company calls signal hubs – will allow enterprises that lack the internal talent to deploy and manage Big Data on-premise to deliver ...

So You’re 100% Virtualized … So What?

A recent InformationWeek article highlighted a number of companies who are well on their way to 100% virtualized infrastructures. PACCAR, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Corporate Express, Westcon Group … all of these firms are over 50% virtualized and are shooting for the magic number – 100% — in the near future. Undoubtedly, there are significant ...

Lucid Imagination Expands Beyond Search with Big Data Application Development Platform

Lucid Imagination expanded its horizons today with the beta release of a new Big Data platform that merges two distinct but complimentary capabilities – Big Data processing/analytics and Big Data search. LucidWorks Big Data combines Lucene/Solr, the open source, scalable search technology, with Hadoop in one platform for building end-user applications that leverage both structured ...

DW-as-a-Service Provider Kognitio Pairs In-Memory Analytic Engine with Hadoop

Kognitio and Hortonworks today announced a partnership that results in tight integration of the former’s in-memory analytic database with Apache Hadoop. The goal is to compliment Hadoop’s batch-oriented, large-scale Big Data storage and processing capabilities with lightening fast ad hoc analytic querying capabilities brought to bear by the Kognitio Analytic Platform, also called WX2. WX2 ...

Getting the Big Picture with Big Data Discovery

IBM’s pending acquisition of Vivisimo, announced last week, brings into focus an important component of the Big Data stack: Big Data discovery. By Big Data discovery, I’m referring to a layer in the Big Data stack that allows Data Scientists to get a comprehensive view of all the data sources available to him or her ...