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Why EMC is Making its Hadoop Move
In our view, EMC is making its move in the commercial Hadoop market at this time for four primary reasons: #1. To reestablish its strategic position on Wall Street as a growth company by targeting hot markets and introducing new revenue streams in the form of commercial Hadoop distributions and services; #2.To leverage its legacy ...
EMC Enters Commercial Hadoop Market with Greenplum HD Appliance
EMC’s entrance into the commercial Hadoop market is a low risk, potentially high reward move by the Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage vendor, as the market for Big Data processing and analytics technologies could reach into the billions of dollars in the coming years. However, the company faces significant hurdles as a new entrant into this space. ...
Lack of Metadata Management Complicates QlikTech Integration Efforts
Last week, QlikTech revealed better-than-expected financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2011, and the financial press was quick to notice. While we agree that QlikTech is likely to enjoy continued growth in the quarters ahead, Wikibon also cautions IT organizations about the potential difficulty they face bringing QlikTech deployments under their control. ...
SAP Has a Lot Riding on its Upcoming HANA Apps
SAPPHIRE is just two weeks away and a big theme at this year’s conference will undoubtedly be in-memory computing. And the stakes are high for SAP. Data analytics today is all about size and speed. The two key questions vendors need to answer are 1) How much data can you process? and 2) How fast ...
Data-Driven Decision-Making Must Start At The Top
In a recent post I discussed steps that enterprises, software vendors and educational institutions must take to attract more people to careers in data analytics. A lot has been written about the scarcity of top-notch data analytics pros, and for good reason. If enterprises and public policy agencies are to take advantage of the huge ...
Yahoo Wants Its Piece of the Hadoop Pie
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is considering spinning off its Hadoop engineering division into a new company in an effort to commercialize the open source, Big Data-crunching software framework. The Journal article, citing unnamed sources, states that Yahoo “would collaborate with and take a significant stake in the new firm.” Yahoo declined to ...
What a $3 Million Prize Says About the State of Data Analytics Skills
IT pros with advanced data modeling and data analytics skills are in short supply, leading companies like Heritage Provider Network to take extraordinary measures. The Northbridge, Calif.-based healthcare provider is offering $3 million to anyone who comes up with an algorithm that allows physicians to better identify at-risk patients, thus speeding up care and lowering ...
Customer Experience Analytics Reveals Next Generation Consumer Behavior
If you’re in in your 40s or 50s, Marco Pacelli bets he knows what a typical day consists of for you. You get up, grab a coffee and a newspaper. You head to the office, make some phone calls, return some emails. Then lunch, maybe a few meetings, then head home for dinner. After that ...
Why the Era of Big Data is About More Than Just Targeted Ads
A recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek feature maintains that we are in the midst of yet another tech bubble. This time, writes BusinessWeek’s Ashlee Vance, “the hype centers on more precise ways to sell.” Following on the success of Facebook and Google, Vance writes, investors are falling all over themselves to invest in like-minded social media companies ...
Intelligent Virtual Storage Key to Teradata’s Hybrid SSD/HDD Data Warehouse
The explosion of data volumes means there is more data available for analysis than ever before. But some types of data are more suitable for analysis than others, and storage technology needs to know the difference to ensure high performance. In a recent Wikibon research note on the evolution of storage technology, my colleague David ...