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Hortonworks an “Opportunity for Transformational Change” Says Cunitz
Herb Cunitz, the new president of HortonWorks, is an Open Source veteran. A sales and marketing team builder and leader, he was head of worldwide field operations for SpringSource. When VMware acquired the development platform startup, he moved to VMware, where he ran global field operations for the vFabric Cloud Application Platform division. SpringSource, he ...
Big Data a Trillion-Dollar Business Opportunity, Not a Technology Business
Gartner’s recent estimate that Big Data is a potential $200 billion business opportunity misses the mark by orders of magnitude said Tresata Founder and CEO Abhi Mehta in the Cube at the Strata + Hadoop World 2012 Conference in late October. But, he says, the opportunity is primarily for businesses that can use Big Data ...
Tresata Promises Post-Grad Course in Data Scientist, the In-Demand Job in Big Data
As Big Data becomes a major driver in business, a new DevOps position, the data scientist, is coming into demand. This may be the next really hot position for DevOps. But, said Tresata Founder and CEO Abhi Mehta in an interview in The Cube at the Strata + Hadoop World 2012 conference, data scientists are ...
Tresata Chief Scientist to Lead Effort to Create Ph.D. in Data Science
The term “data scientist” has become popular since the term first appeared at around 2009. But while the term has been applied to numerous people, exactly what a data scientist is is still unclear, Big Data visionary and Tresata founder and CEO Abhi Mehta said in an interview in The Cube from the Strata = ...
IBM Trumpets Major Effort in Healthcare Big Data at IOD
Healthcare data is a mess, and it is hurting our health. Huge amounts of records are still on paper, and while providers are computerizing them to meet requirements in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, too many are taking the easy, cheap way out by simply creating PDFs or other formats that are not ...
CIOs Need to Objectify Data Centers to Prepare for Second Stage of Architectural Transformation
Virtualization is only the first stage of the transformation of the data center architecture, says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert. The next stage, he says, will be close integration between the private company cloud and the larger Internet-based Cloud that will allow workloads to shift not just between servers inside the data ...
An Effective DR Plan Requires Realistic Planning
Hurricane Sandy has Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe thinking about effective DR planning. As an IT consultant and former CIO, Lowe has been involved in many DR planning exercises and offers four points to consider: Geography matters: Companies need to consider the geographical extent of the likely events they need to plan against. A fire will ...
Tresata Beta Testing Customer Intent Service
Big Data startup Tresata is doing a private beta test of a new analytics service designed to determine customer intent so that companies can design products and services based on what customers really want rather than on guesswork. Big Data futurist and Tresata Founder and Tresata CEO Abhi Mehta revealed the test of the revolutionary ...
“Nice They Agree with Us,” Says Hadapt’s Abadi of Cloudera’s Impala
“As a tech guy, I love the Cloudera [Impala] announcement,” said Hadapt Co-founder and Chief Scientist Daniel Abadi in the Cube from the Strata + Hadoop World 2012 conference floor. “It’s great to hear that people are finally embracing this idea of bringing all the data into Hadoop” rather than maintaining two parallel clusters, one ...
Strata/HadoopWorld 2012 Turnout Nearly Doubles 2011 Showing, Fills Venue
“I don’t know what we are going to do next year,” said Cloudera President Mike Olson in The Cube. “This is the largest venue in New York unless you go to the Javetts Center, which holds 50,000.” The 2012 O’Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World conference has filled the Sheraton New York with 2,500 attendees, ...