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Three take-aways about big data analytics from IBM’s recent big data announcement

Last week I attended the IBM Big Data at the Speed of Business Event at IBM’s Research facility in Almaden.  At the event IBM announced multiple capabilities around its big data initiative including its new BLU Acceleration and IBM PureData System for Hadoop.  Additionally, new versions of Infosphere Big Insights and Infosphere Streams (for data streams) were announced as enhancements to IBM’s Big Data Platform.  A new version of Informix that includes time series acceleration was also announced.   

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Posted by Fern Halper, Ph.D. on April 8, 20130 comments


Hadoop Functionality that Needs Improvement

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director

[NOTE -- My new TDWI report “Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW)” (Hadoop4BIDW) is finished and will be published in early April. I will broadcast the report’s Webinar on April 9, 2013 at noon ET. In the meantime, I’ll leak a few of the report’s findings in this blog series. Search Twitter for #Hadoop, #TDWI, and #Hadoop4BIDW to find other leaks. Enjoy!]
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 5, 20130 comments


HDFS Clusters and Nodes

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director

[ NOTE -- My new TDWI report “Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW)” (Hadoop4BIDW) is finished and will be published in early April. I will broadcast the report’s Webinar on April 9, 2013 at noon ET. In the meantime, I’ll leak a few of the report’s findings in this blog series. Search Twitter for #Hadoop4BIDW, #Hadoop, and #TDWI to find other leaks. Enjoy!] More

Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on March 29, 20130 comments


Figure 12. Job Titles for Hadoop Workers

Job Titles for Hadoop Workers

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director

[ NOTE -- My new TDWI report “Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW)” (Hadoop4BIDW) is finished and will be published in early April. I will broadcast the report’s Webinar on April 9, 2013. In the meantime, I’ll leak a few of the report’s findings in this blog series. Search Twitter for #Hadoop4BIDW, #Hadoop, and #TDWI to find other leaks. Enjoy!] More

Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on March 25, 20130 comments


Figure 2. Based on 48 respondents who have hands-on experience with Hadoop.

Hadoop Technologies in Use Today and Tomorrow

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director

[NOTE -- My new TDWI report “Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW)” (Hadoop4BIDW) is finished and will be published in early April. I will broadcast the report’s Webinar on April 9, 2013. In the meantime, I’ll leak a few of the report’s findings in this blog series. Search Twitter for #Hadoop4BIDW, #Hadoop, and #TDWI to find other leaks. Enjoy!]

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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on March 15, 20130 comments


The Status of Hadoop Implementations

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director

[NOTE -- My new TDWI report “Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW)” (Hadoop4BIDW) is finished and will be published in early April. I will broadcast the report’s Webinar on April 9, 2013. In the meantime, I’ll leak a few of the report’s findings in this blog series. Search Twitter for #Hadoop, #TDWI and #Hadoop4BIDW to find other leaks. Enjoy!]

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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on March 8, 20130 comments