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

SAP Planning and Consolidation Software Gets the HANA Treatment

If you’ve been following SAP for the last year or so, you know that the enterprise software maker is betting its future on its in-memory database called HANA. SAP has promised to migrate its entire application portfolio onto HANA, including both analytic and transactional applications. The latest application suite to get the HANA treatment is ...

The Week in Big Data: Citi Meets Watson, HBaseCon Announced, SAS Loves Hadoop

With all the media attention being directed towards Big Data these days, it can be hard to keep up with the latest news and developments. That’s especially true for you Big Data practitioners out there who have your heads down writing code and crunching data all day. To help you keep pace with what’s going ...

HA Name Node Project for Hadoop is No Laughing Matter

Hadoop’s critics are quick to point out the open source framework’s lack of enterprise-readiness. Top of the list of complaints is Hadoop’s single-point-of-failure issue. In a nutshell, in any given Hadoop cluster, a single Name Node is responsible for tracking which slave nodes are available, where in the cluster certain data resides, and which nodes ...

Thinking Big About Big Data

There are, without question, a number of technical challenges and cultural implications associated with the Era of Big Data than can and must be addressed by the industry at large. It’s also important to identify the most practical uses cases that enterprises can tackle today with new Big Data tools and techniques, such as ad ...

Big Data Partnership Aims to Combat Hadoop “Confusion”

Stalwart enterprise data warehouse vendor Teradata is partnering with Hadoop start-up Hortonworks to improve integration between the two technologies and, as Teradata puts it, to reduce the “confusion” created by the nascent but growing ecosystem of Big Data vendors. The partnership will include joint technology development and services offerings to help customers create highly optimized ...

Coming to Grips With Multiple Versions of the Truth

You know that multi-year project you’ve been working on trying to consolidate all your organization’s data into a central hub to establish a single version of the truth? Yeah, you can stop now. It’s not going to happen. In point of fact, there is no such thing as a single version of the truth in ...

Oracle Delivers R Enterprise, Data Mining Inside Exadata 11g

Oracle announced today that R Enterprise users can now run the popular statistical programming language against large volumes of data directly inside the Oracle Database 11g, including the Exadata Database Machine. The capability is part of the newly launched Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data offering, which bundles Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining ...

Cloudera-Tableau Release Hadoop Connector

Cloudera and Tableau Software today announced the general availability of a new Hadoop connector that enables Tableau users to pull data directly from Hive into the data visualization platform. Originally released in beta last November, Cloudera Connector for Tableau comes integrated with the latest version of the Tableau platform, Tableau 7.0, which was released last ...

SAP Continues HANA Migration to SMB Application

SAP Business One customers – mostly small and medium-sized businesses – will soon have access to new real-time analytic capabilities via HANA, SAP’s in-memory analytic engine. The German company announced that it plans to release a “special product version” of HANA for Business One that will include real-time operational reporting capabilities built on Crystal Reports. ...

Sumo Logic Emerges From Stealth To Take On Splunk, Log Data Analytics

Splunk has yet more competition. A company called Sumo Logic emerged from stealth mode today and unveiled its cloud-based service for managing and analyzing large volumes of machine-generated log data. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company modeled its approach on that of its giant neighbor Google, said Christian Beedgen, the company’s CTO and one of its ...