Derrick Harris, writing for GigaOm highlights the important of Big Data and advanced analytics at Farmville creator, Zynga. Our physical network infrastructure utilizes a mixture of our own datacenters and public cloud datacenters linked with high-speed networking. We utilize commodity hardware, and our architecture is designed for high availability and fault tolerance while accommodating the… [read more]
Philip Russom, writing for TDWI, likes the three Vs of big data, and takes a look at Volume: It’s pretty obvious that data volume is the primary attribute of big data. With that in mind, some people have asked me for a definitive number quantifying the volume, a common question being: “Exactly how many terabytes… [read more]
Yolanda Smit, writing for iWeb Business, continues her series on how “super-companies” have not kept up with the BI times: Business intelligence should become the control panel that empowers management to effectively steer the organisation towards strategic achievement. Part of the challenge: Strategy committees put a lot of effort into market research to ensure their… [read more]
Formtek‘s Dick Weisinger, writing about the McKinsey report’s gushing over how Big Data Analytics (BDA), and howit could positively transform our lives: When applied to applying collected shopper information, big data would give retailers the potential to increase their operating margins by more than 60 percent says the McKinsey report. When BDA is applied to… [read more]
Bill Hewitt, writing for Forbes, goes over some of the big risks, and big rewards, associated with the Big Data revolution: Not surprisingly, the business of information management – helping organizations make sense of this ever-expanding store of data – is growing tremendously. In just the past few years, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, EMC and SAP… [read more]
Storage Newsletter reports that, according to a Syncsort study of more that 350 IT and business users in North America, traditional data integration tools simply aren’t up to the task of dealing with Big Data. Growing data volumes and shrinking processing windows pose significant challenges to more than 70 percent of the professionals surveyed. More… [read more]
Lynn Greiner, writing for The Globe and Mail, points out how small companies aren’t immune from the challenges of dealing with Big Data: Small used to mean, relatively speaking, small profits, small staff and small buildings. But today, in the information age, small is irrelevant when it comes to data. Small or large, databases are… [read more]
Steve Lohr reporting for the New York Times, casts the spotlight on the data explosion, and the opportunities it can provide for companies savvy enough to take advantage of it. In a modern economy, information should be the prime asset — the raw material of new products and services, smarter decisions, competitive advantage for companies,… [read more]
Deborah Gage, writing for the Wall Street Journal on how The Big Data Revolution Will Affect Us From Head To Toe, based on a conversation with John Webster, storage analyst at the Evaluator Group, at SNW Spring 2011 “Big data is about getting creative – it’s about leveraging the technology, and it’s everywhere,” Webster said…. [read more]
Derrik Harris, writing for Giga Om on Why ParAccel’s Time on the Big Data Singles Circuit Won’t Be Long: Greenplum, Netezza, Vertica, Aster Data Systems — one by one, they all got bought, leaving ParAccel standing all but alone as an independent company dedicated to the cause of analyzing big data. Though that could change:… [read more]