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

Big Data App Start-up Incubator Signals Role-Reversal for SAP

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

For years SAP’s bread-and-butter has been developing application software to run on third-party databases, including archrival Oracle. With the advent of HANA, however, SAP finds itself in the unfamiliar role of soliciting outside developers to build applications for its own database platform. …

With YARN, Hadoop No Longer a One Trick Pony

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

Last week my colleague John Furrier reported that YARN, also known as Next-Generation MapReduce, was upgraded to a full-fledged Apache Hadoop sub-project. While YARN is still considered alpha-quality, the move is a good sign for Hadoop. Here’s why. Critics often cite Hadoop’s …

SAP’s Services Revenue Up, HANA Sales Top $100 Million in Q2

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

SAP reported its strongest ever 2nd quarter performance this morning with net profits of €661 million, or nearly $800 million. That’s a 12% increase over 2011 Q2 results. Among the highlights, SAP’s services revenue was up 16% compared to last year, topping …

Standing up for HDFS, Hadoop’s Latest Whipping Boy

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

The Hadoop Distributed File System, or HDFS, which is really the core of any Hadoop cluster, has been taking a lot of flak lately. Many of the criticisms focus on some of HDFS’s well-known drawbacks, including its (until recently) lack of High …

Self-Service, Virtualization Can Help State Governments Do More with Less

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

The Great Recession has technically been over for three years now, but organizations of all types are still in recovery mode. Among the hardest hit are state governments, whose tax coffers are languishing. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, …

There’s No Excuse for Not Leveraging Big Data

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

In a recent survey by Oracle of 300 executives, nearly a third – 29% – of respondents graded their current Big Data management and analytic capabilities as D or F. Nearly all respondents – 93% – agreed with the statement that their …

Nodeable Shift Highlights Growing Interest in (and Need For) Streaming Big Data Analytics

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

Nodeable made what you might call a major shift in its business model today. The company, which began life as cloud monitoring service provider for systems administrators, debuted a streaming Big Data Analytics services that is based on open source Storm and …

Desire to Tap Outside Expertise and Sheer Necessity Driving Professional Services Engagements

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

Enterprises turn to third-party professional services providers for two reasons more than any others. One is due to a desire to tap service providers’ external expertise that the enterprise lacks internally. The other is good, old necessity. These were among the findings …

Closing the Hadoop Skills Gap Requires A Two-Front Attack

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

We’re all familiar with the Hadoop skills gap by now, so I won’t delve into the details of why we’re facing this conundrum in this post. Rather, let’s focus on solutions to the problem. It’s human nature to see the world in …

MapR Bringing Hadoop to New Google Compute Engine

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY14 YEARS AGO

No sooner did Google announce its Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Google Compute Engine, at Google I/O this morning, than MapR revealed it will offer its Hadoop distribution on-demand via the new Google cloud. The announcment with Google comes just two weeks after MapR inked …

Jeffrey Kelly

Latest from Jeffrey Kelly

Big Data App Start-up Incubator Signals Role-Reversal for SAP

With YARN, Hadoop No Longer a One Trick Pony

SAP’s Services Revenue Up, HANA Sales Top $100 Million in Q2

Standing up for HDFS, Hadoop’s Latest Whipping Boy

Self-Service, Virtualization Can Help State Governments Do More with Less

There’s No Excuse for Not Leveraging Big Data

Nodeable Shift Highlights Growing Interest in (and Need For) Streaming Big Data Analytics

Desire to Tap Outside Expertise and Sheer Necessity Driving Professional Services Engagements

Closing the Hadoop Skills Gap Requires A Two-Front Attack

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