Tag: BigData

  • Hadoop moving into production

    A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent had moved it to production environments, and another 31 percent are in the process of doing so within 12 months. Hadoop moving into production

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  • More on BMC’s private plans

    We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of “crazy” stuff, myself, otherwise: why go private? Here are some comments from BMC’s VP Asia Pacific, Chip Salyards: “With a publically traded company you are on these 90 day cycles so you can’t change from…

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  • Not sure which half works

    In a separate study, out of 3000 marketers surveyed 41 percent said they were “uncertain” about the effectiveness of Facebook marketing. –Brands allocating most of social marketing budget on Facebook, uncertain of worth That’s too bad. All this fancy Big Data and clicking was supposed to fix that old quote.

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  • Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA

    It’s expected to have a valuation of $1.4B. I love it when pure play software company IPO’s because you get a peak at their financials and how they’re run for a specific type of software. More: Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA

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  • EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm

    EMC believes that the third era will be one of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data…. "We don’t want you to build an app in Amazon’s cloud and have to pay Amazon a tax for the rest of its lifecycle." —EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm

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  • How would you define work in a networked world?

    Most of these dynamics predate the internet, but digital technologies are magnifying their salience. People keep returning to the mantra of “work-life balance” as a model for thinking about their lives, even as it’s hard to distinguish between what constitutes work and what constitutes life, which is presumably non-work. But this binary makes little sense…

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  • Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web

    As IBM now cleverly says Mobile isn’t a Device, Its Data… We’re heading into a beautiful, bright, future where Data is Eating The World and solving tough problems… —Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web

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  • People will do more with Big Data than big companies can

    The history of computing over the last 30 years is one of lurches forward every time individuals got the power to do what only big enterprises could do previously — and to do a much better job of it. —People will do more with Big Data than big companies can

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