Big Data: Will Open Source Software Challenge BI & Analytics Software Vendors
Predictive Analytics has been billed as the next big thing for almost fifteen years, but hasn’t gained mass acceptance so…
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors: The flying robot video you absolutely must watch
As you watch the video below you can form your own conclusions about this natural evolution of robotics. But I’ll…
Improving Hadoop Performance with Optimization, CDH3 Update 3, and CDH4
Mahout is a machine learning library that will be included in CDH4
Some Thoughts on Measuring Consumer Marketing’s Affect on the Path to Purchase
For Consumer Goods companies it’s getting harder to argue with the value of knowing consumers and shoppers at an individual…
Big Data Is More than Hadoop
We recently published the results of our benchmark research on Big Data to complement the previously published benchmark research on Hadoop and Information…
Ring in the New Year with New Data Products
For web-based businesses, and of course, those with a web presence (which is just about everyone) there’s a goldmine of…
What Enterprises Can Learn from Major Events and Surprises in 2011
Rather than make predictions for 2012, which are everywhere right now, I want to look back at some of the…
Washington DC Area Hadoop Users Group (HUG)
If you are working on Big Data projects in or around the federal space a resource you will want to…
