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Jeffrey Kelly

As Wikibon’s lead Big Data analyst, Jeff Kelly applies a critical eye to trends and developments in the Big Data and business analytics markets, with a strong focus on helping practitioners deliver business value. Jeff’s research includes market analysis, emerging technologies, enterprise Big Data case studies, and more. He also appears frequently on theCUBE to share his insights. Prior to joining Wikibon, Jeff spent seven years as a writer and editor at TechTarget, where covered a number of business and IT topics including IT services, mobile computing, data management and business intelligence. He holds a BA from Providence College and an MA from Northeastern University.

Latest from Jeffrey Kelly

HP Unveils Autonomy/Vertica-based Big Data Analytics Platform

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

HP announced today a new Big Data Analytics platform based on a combination of Autonomy’s unstructured data analytics engine and Vertica’s fast-loading, real-time analytics database. HP describes the new platform as “a single processing layer for forming a conceptual, contextual and real-time …

SAP Eyes Database Dominance with Pure In-Memory Approach

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

As if there was any doubt after the messaging onslaught at this year’s SAPPHIRE and TechEd conferences, a senior executive in SAP’s business analytics division tells Wikibon that the company is going all-in on in-memory storage architecture and not looking back. “We …

Apache ZooKeeper Gets Some New Tools

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 was released last week and it includes a number of updates that should make it easier for admins to better corral growing Hadoop deployments. Version 3.4 includes native Windows version of C client, Kerberos client authentication support, and an …

GE Announces New Software Practice with Big Data Focus

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

General Electric says it plans to hire 400 software architects and engineers to man a new Big Data “nerve center” opening next summer in California. The new practice will focus on developing software to help customers make better use of GE’s products …

Hadoop Gets Another Vote of Confidence From Microsoft

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

It appears Hadoop has yet another fan: Microsoft. ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is putting LINQ to HPC, its distributed runtime and associated programming model for unstructured data analysis at scale, on ice. Codenamed Dryad, LINQ to HPC was Microsoft’s proprietary Big …

The Stakes are High in the Hadoop Distribution Race

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

A few weeks back I wrote that the focus in the Hadoop community was shifting from the infrastructure layer – the plumbing, if you will – to the analytics and application layers. That premise was backed up last week at Hadoop World …

Hadoop, there it is: Here Comes Hortonworks

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new distribution, called Hortonworks Data Platform, includes a new, open source management …

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