Cloudera is riding the wave of big data. I first learned about the company while working at Vertica, one of Cloudera’s partners. Customers that managed large amounts of structured relational data also needed to process large amounts of semistructured data such as the type found in web logs and application logs. The emerging channel of social media provided another source of data lacking the structure that would lend itself to analysis in a relational database. Other organizations needed to...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Predictive Analytics,
Sales Performance,
Social Media,
Supply Chain Performance,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance,
CDH3,
Cloudera,
Customer & Contact Center,
Information Management,
Strata+Hadoop
Informatica has announced version 9.1 for Big Data. I wrote previously about Informatica 9.1,the latest iteration of the company’s data integration platform, following its industry analyst summit. At that event in February, the company officials alluded to future plans regarding Hadoop and other big-data sources yet to be finalized. This announcement reveals those plans. Informatica will support three types of “big data”: big transaction data from relational databases and data warehouse system,...
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Topics:
Big Data,
MapReduce,
Social Media,
Supply Chain Performance,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Business Performance,
Customer & Contact Center,
Data Integration,
Informatica,
Strata+Hadoop
Last week I attended the IBM Big Data Symposium at the Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The event was held in the auditorium where the recent Jeopardy shows featuring the computer called Watson took place and which still features the set used for the show – a fitting environment for IBM to put on another sort of “show” involving fast processing of lots of data. The same technology featured prominently in IBM’s big-data message, and the event was an orchestrated presentation more...
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Topics:
Big Data,
EMC,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Customer & Contact Center,
Greenplum,
IBM,
Information Applications,
Information Management,
InfoSphere,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Strata+Hadoop
Earlier this week EMC announced it will create its own distribution for Apache Hadoop. Hadoop provides distributed computing capabilities that enable organizations to process very large amounts of data quickly. As I have written previously, the Hadoop market continues to grow and evolve. In fact, the rate of change may be accelerating. Let’s start with what EMC announced and then I’ll address what the announcement means for the market.
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Topics:
Big Data,
EMC,
Social Media,
Teradata,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Customer & Contact Center,
Greenplum,
Information Management,
Strata+Hadoop
Tableau Software officially released Version 6 of its product this week. Tableau approaches business intelligence from the end user’s perspective, focusing primarily on delivering tools that allow people to easily interact with data and visualize it. With this release, Tableau has advanced its in-memory processing capabilities significantly. Fundamentally Tableau 6 shifts from the intelligent caching scheme used in prior versions to a columnar, in-memory data architecture in order to increase...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Data Visualization,
Enterprise Data Strategy,
Tableau,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
In-Memory Computing
