3 Big Data Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Google has indexed 1.5 million results for the term “big data,” a testament to its quick march to buzzword status.
Board of Directors’ Dashboards – Navigation or naiveté?
Have you ever wondered about how well boards of directors do their job? I have. And I do not have…
Report from the 2012 Hadoop Summit
Abstract: One of the hottest technology trends in 2012 is Big Data Analytics. Nowhere was that more evident than at…
100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?
University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on a mission—to measure everything his body consumes, performs,…
Private Cloud Hosting: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Industry titans like Google and Microsoft have put billions of dollars into cloud computing initiatives over the past five years…
Three Use Cases for Splunk
The greatest source of potential use cases for technology is the user community. This is a great reason to attend…
Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream (Part Two)
Did you miss out? It’s ok. We’ll fill you in. Part one of this two-part exploration of Hadoop’s affect on…
SAP’s Social Layer: Making Collaboration Real
You’ll recall a few weeks back I wrote a post about attending SAP’s SAPPHIRENOW user conference this past May discussing…
Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop
Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous…
