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Hadoop and Beyond: A Primer on Big Data for the Little Guy

Alexandra Weber Morales April 28th 2015 http://sdtimes.com/hadoop-and-beyond-a-primer-on-big-data-for-the-little-guy/ Have you heard the news? A “data lake” overflowing with information about Hadoop and other tools, data science and more threatens to drown IT shops. What’s worse, some Big Data efforts may fail to stay afloat if they don’t prove their worth early on. “Here’s a credible angle […]

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9 Business Intelligence and Analytics Predictions for 2015

Drew Robb January 16, 2015 http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/business-intelligence/9-business-intelligence-and-analytics-predictions-for-2015.html What’s ahead for business intelligence and data analytics in 2015? When we asked analysts, forecasters and pundits for their predictions for the most relevant business intelligence and analytics trends for 2015, they came up with a host of topics, including mobile maturity, Hadoop growth, better text analysis and incorporation […]

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Will this be the year of Hadoop? 6 predictions for 2015

January 8, 2015 Mike Wheatley http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/01/08/will-this-be-the-year-of-hadoop-6-predictions-for-2015/ With the New Year finally upon us it seems as good a time as any to ask where Hadoop, the open-source Big Data framework, will be heading in 2015. SiliconANGLE pulled forecasts from an assortment of analysts and industry experts who’ve tried to second guess the next big developments […]

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Year in Review: The Biggest Developments of 2014

December 29, 2014 http://www.information-management.com/dmradio/Big-Data-Year-Review-Podcast-10026303-1.html What a difference a year makes! Over the past 12 months, we’ve witnessed the beginning of the end for traditional enterprise software. All the attention seems focused on Big Data, which belies the lingering array of data quality issues that continue to thwart efforts for handling good old-fashioned corporate “small” data. […]

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A Decade On: The Evolution of Hadoop at Age 10

December 22, 2014 Scott Etkin http://data-informed.com/decade-evolution-hadoop-age-10/ Apache Hadoop turns 10 in 2015. What started as an open-source project intended to enable Yahoo! Internet searches has become, in a relatively short time, the de facto architecture for today’s big data environments. As big data exploded in 2014, Hadoop adoption and investment expanded along with it. Today, […]

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Spark 1.2 challenges MapReduce’s Hadoop dominance

December 22, 2014 Serdar Yegulalp http://www.infoworld.com/article/2862225/hadoop/spark-12-challenges-mapreduces-hadoop-dominance.html Apache Spark, the in-memory and real-time data processing framework for Hadoop, turned heads and opened eyes after version 1.0 debuted. The feature changes in 1.2 show Spark working not only to improve, but to become the go-to framework for large-scale data processing in Hadoop. Among the changes in Spark […]

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10 Predictions for Data and Analytics in 2015

December 19, 2014 Adam Shepherd http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/10-Predictions-for-Data-and-Analytics-in-2015-101221.aspx As analytics continues to play a larger role in the enterprise, the need to leverage and protect the data looms larger. According to the IDC, the big data and analytics market will reach $125 billion worldwide in 2015.  Here are 10 predictions from industry experts about the data and […]

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Big Data: 6 Bold Predictions For 2015

December 19, 2014 Jeff Bertolucci http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/big-data-analytics/big-data-6-bold-predictions-for-2015/d/d-id/1318205 ‘Tis the season when industry soothsayers don their prognostication caps to make fearless forecasts for the coming year. What does the crystal ball say about big data? We culled an assortment of 2015 predictions from big data executives and analysts. The overarching theme: Big data gets real next year, […]

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15 APM Predictions for 2015

December 16, 2014 APM Digest Part 1: http://www.apmdigest.com/application-performance-management-predictions-2015-1 Part 2: http://www.apmdigest.com/application-performance-management-predictions-2015-2 http://www.apmdigest.com/application-performance-management-predictions-2015-3 The annual list of Application Performance Management (APM) predictions is the most popular post on APMdigest, viewed by tens of thousands of people in the APM community around the world every year. Industry experts – from analysts and consultants to users and the […]

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Big Data: Concurrent CEO Suggests a Pragmatic View for Data Projects in 2015

Dick Weisinger http://formtek.com/blog/big-data-concurrent-ceo-suggests-a-pragmatic-view-for-data-projects-in-2015/ Where will the Big Data industry be going in 2015? Gary Nakamura, CEO of Concurrent, has published his list of predictions about the direction that Big Data will take. This is the second year in a row that Nakamura has offered up predictions. Nakamura said that “this year every company is in […]

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