21 May 2012

The Tech Reflector

 
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…you. In any case, even if a company can't effectively use all the data it gathers, as technology improves an ever increasing amount of data will be accessible. Over time, we will do better.

How many do believe this is the solution to the (non-existant) Big Data problem?

Original title and link: A Quick Solution for the Big Data Challenge ( NoSQL database ©myNoSQL)

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…of the new challenges brought to us by the market and technology: Cloud Computing, Big Data processing, Mobile and occasionally connected systems, real-time business intelligence.

There also are some financial and political benefits for project stakeholders to be interested in. They all revolve around the ability to have better flexibility in project delivery, managing resources and risks.

Ability to keep things simple, defer important decisions and adapt business solutions can be a …

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Analysis : A key component of the value proposition of Big Data is analysis. Chris Heuer of Deloitte recently made this statement at at Social Media Masters in NY: "We are moving from systems of record to systems of engagement." What can analysis of Big Data do to change your life ? Your business?

Impact : Big Data represents opportunities and risks — social, business, security, privacy — there are many. These are issues we need to address as a society. How do …

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…stage at the Storage Decisions event to talk about Riak and Big Data. We'll also be sponsoring, so stop by and see us if you're planning to be here.

It looks like there are still tickets available for anyone interested in attending.

Strange Loop - St. Louis

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Strange Loop is going to go down as one of the banner conferences of 2011, and it's for this reason that Basho couldn't be prouder to be gold sponsors of the …

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…hesitant in some way to begin adopting NoSQL and other next-generation solutions to " Big Data" problems, there are a) lots of organizations beginning NoSQL initiatives in production and b) lots of organizations with a recognized (or for some unrecognized) need for a better method of handling their growing data problems.

Let's take social media off the table. While everything "social" is invading the enterprise from all angles, it is not the lone driver of " …

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Shawn Rogers has a short but compelling list of Big Data deployments in his article Big Data is Scaling BI and Analytics . This list also shows that even if there are some common components like Hadoop, there are no blueprints yet for dealing with Big Data.

Facebook: Hadoop analytic data warehouse, using HDFS to store more than 30 petabytes of data. Their Big Data stack is based only on open source solutions.

Quantcast: 3,000 core, 3,500 terabyte Hadoop …

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Last evening I was trying to catch up with the news in the NoSQL and Big Data space —it looks like nobody wants to pick up the job I'm doing here, except maybe GigaOm's Infrastructure Curator Derick Harris .

After skimming for a while through the links I've bookmarked, I've started to realize that this month, September 2011, is looking like the most exciting month in the data space, including but not limited to NoSQL and NewSQL, Big Data, …

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…distribution. But it was just another company among the many others trying to get into the Big Data with Hadoop space .

MapR goal sounds very similar to Cloudera's: providing a tweaked enterprise friendly Hadoop distribution. But this round of funding, amounting to $ 20 million which places it close the Cloudera's last round of funding of $ 25 million , comes as a confirmation from the VC space of this business model.

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…. As a consequence I cannot agree that the 4 scenarios described above do (or do not) represent Big Data scenarios.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean I agree with Forrester's definition of BigData. If taken ad literam, Forrester's definition would mean that for every 3 V combination there is either no problem or there's already a viable solution. We'll need to come up with scenarios for each of these combinations and validate this hypothesis.

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…solve otherwise unassailable problems? No problem. Heck, want to simply send email to your users? They have that too.

I read this just hours after expressing my concerns about the awesome future of Big Data and data anlytics . For now we're lucky there's still an Amazon out there.

Original title and link: Amazon Is More Interesting Than Google ( NoSQL database ©myNoSQL)

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