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Q&A: Disruptive Trends and Technologies Shaping Our Data Use

Major disruptive factors reshaping how we view and use data include the volume, variety, and velocity of big data, along with social computing, more pervasive BI, and advanced analytics, says Vitria CTO Dale Skeen.

Inside Facebook’s Relational Platform

At TDWI's World Conference in Chicago, Ken Rudin, director of analytics for Facebook, surprised many attendees when he revealed that Facebook has built itself a conventional data warehouse.

What's Really Different about Big Data Analytics?

We explore several fundamental changes driven by big data analytics.

Operational Intelligence: Footloose and Schema-free

Because big data is fast-paced and unpredictable, operational intelligence outstrips the capabilities of traditional BI or DW tools, argues Vitria CTO Dale Skeen.

Actian Acquires ParAccel - What's Ahead?

The combination will offer end-to-end big data solutions built from the ground up, says a company spokesperson. We look at what’s ahead post-acquisition.

Big Data: Helping to Predict the Unpredictable

Recent advances in analytic technology have provided us with the horsepower necessary to harvest much more big data.

Hadoop Usage Poised to Explode

Today, comparatively few enterprises are using HDFS, the distributed storage substrate of the Hadoop framework. That's quickly changing.

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