Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R
MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem.…
Building a Text Analytics Command Center for Social & Private Data Analysis
I met with Mehrshad, our CIO, Social Intelligence Architect & VP of Product Management, to talk about a new concept…
SQL Server to Discontinue Support for OLE-DB
ODBC was first created in 1992 as a generic set of standards for providing access to a wide range of…
NSA, Accumulo & Hadoop
Reading yesterday that the NSA has submitted a proposal to Apache to incubate their Accumulo platform. This, according to the…
Splunk: Bringing Big Data Analysis to the Rest of Us
Today’s IT departments need to deal with incredible amounts of machine data. Splunk collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast…
Teradata 3rd Party Influencers and TDWI Takeaways
Over the past couple of weeks I have had the chance to attend both Teradata‘s Third Party Influencers event and…
Quickly Deploy a Well-Engineered Apache Hadoop Solution to a Production Environment
As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday’s announcement by Dell and…
How to Become a Data Analyst
Author: Linda RosencranceSpotfire Blogging TeamSo you breezed (or perhaps stumbled) through your stats classes. Now you’re looking to develop a…
CTOlabs.com Assessment on “Hadoop for Intelligence Analysis”
CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just published…

