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Wikibon: Hadoop needs comprehensive security to succeed in enterprise markets
Hadoop security is fragmented and immature, and until this changes few Hadoop-based projects will move into production, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. Wikibon’s Big Data Analytics Adoption Survey, 2014-2015, found that security concerns were the second largest obstacle to moving Hadoop into production, just behind backup and recovery issues. As a result, the ...
Wikibon analyst: Open Data Platform debate is all about the money
The debate over the Open Data Platform presently raging in the Big Data community is, at its core, about money and is generated by the very different business models of the two main Hadoop competitors – Hortonworks, Inc. and Cloudera, Inc.. The total Big Data market, including Hadoop, analysis systems and surrounding services, will top ...
Cognitive Computing: A new generation of analysis for the Big Data age
Cognitive computing is a new form of computational analysis, combining leading-edge technologies including machine learning and natural language processing, to automate analysis of unstructured, and in particular written and spoken, data. Despite some claims to the contrary, it is designed to supplement rather than replace human decision-making, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. It allows ...
Wikibon: Employee productivity should be a key consideration in flash storage ROI
As the price of flash storage continues to drop versus spinning disk and as flash technology proves itself to be at least as dependable as disk, organizations are beginning to move to flash for more applications. While the flash vendors claim that the cost of the medium is roughly equal to high-performance disk, that claim is ...
Converged systems entering new phase as market and technology matures
Converged systems have been around for more than five years now, and they are entering a new phase both in market acceptance and in technology. Billions of dollars of converged infrastructure have been deployed, with VCE Company, LLC running at a $2 billion rate and the Cisco Systems, Inc.-NetApp, Inc. FlexPod partnership passing $3 billion ...
Wikibon: In-memory databases turn Big Data into actionable insights
Big data promises to revolutionize business. But often business opportunities are fleeting. A retailer, for example, can only use information on up-selling a customer while that customer is in the store or on the retailer’s Web site. Once the customer checks out or leaves, the opportunity is gone. New online business use cases such as ...
Big Data winners using inline analytics to derive large ROIs from their investment
A recent poll of Wikibon community members revealed that many are implementing initial Big Data systems. The vast majority of these, however, focus on an IT operational expense reduction in which large amounts of older company data is archived out of more expensive database engines into Hadoop. The unstructured data can be added to support deep-dive ...
Despite hiccups, Big Data has a big future says Wikibon’s Kelly
Big Data enables an inflection point in business, and it presents a $1 trillion-plus opportunity for vendors and practitioners, says Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. In his keynote to theCUBE’s BigDataSV evening program last week in parallel with HadoopWorld, Kelly addressed six questions that are often raised by the Wikibon community when discussing Big Data ...
At EAT Club, every decision is data-driven
Four-year-old EAT Club harnesses Big Data and cloud technologies to provide high quality lunches on time to offices in the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley area and more recently to Los Angeles. A born-in-the-cloud company, it works at the individual employee level. Companies subscribe to the service, but their employees make their food orders directly either through ...
Facebook reveals open-hardware network switch; should Cisco worry?
Facebook announced at its Networking @Scale event today that it will contribute the design of a new modular, open source data center network switch, nicknamed “6-pack”, to the Open Compute Project (OCP). This will allow other companies to build and sell the 6-pack switch. Facebook describes the spec as “the first open hardware modular switch” ...