Posts Tagged Big Data

Don’t Let Misconceptions Limit Your Hadoop Options

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data on October 22, 2012


Developers don’t get spooked easily. But in a market like Big Data, dominated by open source code and free software, the term ‘proprietary’ can send shivers down a developer’s spine.

The fear (or is it disdain?) is sometimes justified. No developer wants to get locked in to a platform that dictates which tools she can use, which data sources she can integrate, which hardware she must deploy or that makes switching to a competing platform too costly to justify.

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Double Threat: #theCUBE at Strata Conference + Hadoop World

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data, Wikibon on October 18, 2012


Next week theCUBE is back in action, this time covering two Big Data conferences in one. Strata Conference + Hadoop World on theCUBE kicks off live Wednesday (10/24) morning at 10 am ET on SiliconANGLE.tv. We’re broadcasting all day Wednesday and all day Thursday (10/25) from New York City with virtually non-stop live interviews with the smartest nodes at the conference.

We’ve identified the most compelling news and trends that will be developing at the show and programed our coverage to flesh them out in great detail. Among other trending topics, you’ll get full coverage and analysis of the emerging Big Data application development market, the state of real-time analytics in Hadoop environments, and new ecosystem partnerships, as well as some great advice for Big Data practitioners from Big Data practitioners.

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Ellison Takes Aim at HANA, But Misses the Big (Data) Picture

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on October 3, 2012


It’s Oracle OpenWorld this week and that means more colorful if factually questionable statements from everybody’s favorite egomaniacal billionaire CEO. And, not surprisingly, Larry Ellison’s target was archrival SAP.

“SAP has an in-memory machine, you know, that’s a little bit smaller than what we offer,” Ellison said at OpenWorld yesterday, referring to SAP HANA and Oracle’s own all in-memory database Exadata X3, which debuted this week. “We have 26 terabytes of memory; [SAP offers] 0.5 terabytes of memory.”

In case you missed his point, Ellison put it as succinctly as he could: “The HANA in-memory machine is, like, really small.” (Hat Tip to eWeek)

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Big Data Innovation on Display in Boston

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on September 12, 2012


If you’re interested in Big Data and you find yourself in Boston tomorrow you owe it to yourself to head over to the Hyatt Regency in the Financial District. That’s where The IE Group is putting on its Big Data Innovation Summit and the list of speakers and sessions is impressive.

Here’s just a small sampling of the speakers:

  • Facebook’s Mohammad Sabah, a Data Scientist with previous experience at Netflix, will discuss “applying scalable machine learning algorithms for applications ranging from ranking to search to matching.” Sabah, who joined us on theCUBE at Hadoop Summit, will further explore why Hadoop is particularly effective on large and otherwise inaccessible data sets.
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Accumulo: Why The World Needs Another NoSQL Database

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on August 20, 2012


If you’ve been unable to keep up with all the competing NoSQL databases that have hit the market over the last several years, you’re not alone. To name just a few, there’s HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Redis, and Neo4J.

To that list you can add Accumulo, an open source database originally developed at the National Security Agency. You may be wondering why the world needs yet another database to handle large volumes of multi-structured data. The answer is, of course, that no one of these NoSQL databases has yet checked all the feature/functionality boxes that most enterprises require before deploying a new technology.

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Clearing Up Some Confusion on the Hadoop Wars

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on August 17, 2012


Our friend Matt Asay, who oversees business development for streaming Big Data analytics player Nodeable (read hear about Nodeable’s recent shift in business model), penned a column today sizing up the Hadoop distribution competition. Asay narrows the competitors to two – Hortonworks and Cloudera – and proceeds under the premise that only one of the two can and will survive.

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A Comprehensive List of Big Data Statistics

Posted by Wikibon in Analytics, Big Data on August 1, 2012


Taming Big DataThe team at Wikibon is pretty excited about the future of Big Data. From Big Data infographics to revenue forecasts and funding reports, to our own Big Data Manifesto, the market is literally exploding with innovation and development. But the sheer magnitude of the numbers we’re analyzing around Big Data are tremendous in and of themselves.

Don’t believe us? Here are over thirty significant Big Data statistics to consider, broken out by the current environment, the growth of unstructured (user generated) data, the marketplace, and business issues related to Big Data.

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The Big List of Big Data Infographics

Posted by Wikibon in Big Data on July 24, 2012


The Wikibon community is not the only organization interested in Big Data. Several other companies and publishers are getting into the discussion and visualization (infographics) is a powerful way to present the impact and significance of Big Data.

Here is our “Big List” of the Big Data infographics that have been created in recent months (including ours front and center). Let us know your feedback and what if we’re missing anything (click each infographic thumbnail for the original blog posts).

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Real Clouds in Las Vegas: Scale, Power, Bandwidth and Guns

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Cloud Computing, Wikibon on June 9, 2012


One of the challenges to understanding cloud computing is that it’s not easy to visualize what the solution really looks like. Before heading to HP Discover, I had the opportunity to tour the SwitchNAP facility in Las Vegas. There are dozens of cloud solutions (including HP, EMC, Joyent, Nirvanix, VMware) hosted in the 407,000 square foot co-location facility, and there’s strong (e.g., guys with guns) cloud security. Taking the tour is a geek paradise – it’s like a James Bond villain stronghold: employees dressed in black, metal desks, red and blue LED lighting, and the most technologically advanced data center that I’ve seen. Switch is not only a showcase for the scalable, dense and efficient power and cooling of cloud solutions, but also has extra capabilities of a networking buying consortium and the US Cloud inter-cloud exchangeto enable lots of interesting cloud deployments.

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Big Data in Focus: theCUBE @ Hadoop Summit 2012

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, Wikibon on June 8, 2012


theCUBE Summer Tour continues next week when we roll into San Jose June 13th and 14th with live coverage of Hadoop Summit 2012. Presented by Hortonworks, Hadoop Summit brings together an incredible array of players in the Big Data market – both new school Hadoop providers like Hortonworks, Cloudera, Hadapt, MapR and Datameer, as well as tried-and-true IT vendors from IBM and Microsoft to Oracle and HP.

There are also a slew of Hadoop practitioners on-hand at the event, many of whom will join myself and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier in theCUBE to share their experiences and advice with colleagues just getting started with Big Data. They include Intuit, Adobe, Klout, Twitter and Sears. As always, the show will be streamed in live HD at SiliconANGLE.tv.

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