Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: Strata NY Panel on the State of Structured Search
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to moderate a panel at Strata New York 2011 on Entities, Relationships, and…
Informatica Parses the World of Hadoop
Informatica recently introduced HParser, an expansion of its capabilities for working with Hadoop data sources. Beginning with Version 9.1, introduced earlier this…
Judging Complete for 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award
The Judges for the 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award have reported back and results have been tabulated. Judges had to choose…
‘Google-like IT Automation For the Rest of Us:’ Puppet and Chef
Wired’s Cade Metz just published an interesting piece on the Puppet and Chef projects, open source-based online services for automating…
Service-Oriented Architecture’s Role in the Emerging Hadoop World
To address Big Data challenges in a cost-effective way, many organizations are turning to Hadoop, an open-source framework. Hadoop enables…
Social Software, Feature or Product?
We have this debate running about social software and whether it's, for the most part anyway, a set of features…
Teradata: All in the Family of Appliances and Big Data
Teradata recently held its Partners User Group meeting (Twitter hashtag #TDPUG11) in San Diego. Analysts were briefed previously on some of…
Oracle Big Data Appliance and Cloud Computing Stands on Shoulders of Giants
Oracle made several announcements at its recent Open World event demonstrates its strengths in the business computing market but also…
Map and Reduce in MapReduce: a SAS Illustration
In last post, I mentioned Hadoop, the open source implementation of Google’s MapReduce for parallelized processing of big data. In…
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance to include R
At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today, Oracle announced the new Oracle Big Data Appliance, "a new engineered system…
