November 15, 2011 – 2:17 pm
There’s a historic parallel for Hadoop’s rapidly growing ecosystem and excitement – the Linux operating system had a similar trajectory more than a decade ago. At that time, as companies embraced the open source system, a vibrant ecosystem of users, vendors and community supporters evolved to move the technology forward and add value. Now, we [...]
October 21, 2011 – 1:16 pm
For too long, many enterprises have been attempting to sort through increasingly complex spaghetti architectures with point-to-point data integration. “They get to the point where when they want to introduce a new product or make a change, they have to touch 30 different systems,” says John Akred, data and platforms lead at Accenture Technology Labs. [...]
October 9, 2011 – 9:37 pm
In enterprises across the globe, from data centers into the executive suites, everyone is asking the same questions: What is Hadoop, and how can it help us with our Big Data challenges? The groundswell of interest in Hadoop – an open-source software framework that enables applications to run across large arrays of nodes, accessing petabytes’ [...]
September 12, 2011 – 9:42 am
This fall, I have the fantastic privilege of moderating a series of informative Webcasts, called “Hadoop Tuesdays,” co-sponsored by Informatica and Cloudera, on the phenomenon sweeping the data management space known as Hadoop. Big Data may be the problem, but Hadoop is the answer. Hadoop is an open-source software framework that enables applications to run [...]
August 25, 2011 – 3:43 pm
A couple of months back, the McKinsey Global Institute published a defining paper on the role of Big Data in business. What I like about this particular report is not that it gnashes teeth about the huge volumes of Big Data and how we are going to manage and store it – very legitimate concerns [...]
