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

What Comes First: The Hadoop Application or the Use Case?

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

It’s a pretty standard rule-of-thumb for successful IT organizations: Identify a compelling use case first, and then invest in the applicable technology. But what if the technology doesn’t exist yet? That, unfortunately, is the dilemma facing many forward-thinking enterprises when it comes …

Attivio Secures Patent for Inverted Index for Joining Unstructured and Structured Data

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

Attivio has secured a U.S. patent for its unique inverted index, the secret sauce behind the company’s Unified Information Access platform that allows it to access, join and query all data types. U.S. Patent No. 8073840, which you can read here, was …

Putting Big Data to Work for the Global Good

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

Some claim that Big Data is about nothing more than delivering targeted ads to online consumers, a notion I’ve refuted in the past. The truth is Big Data has numerous applications, many of them commercial, but others of the more humanitarian variety. …

SAP to Resell NetBase SaaS-based Social Media Analytics App

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

SAP has made another cloud-based deal, though this one a partnership and not an acquisition. SAP announced this morning that it plans to resell NetBases’s Software-as-a-Service social media analytics application, which transforms Tweets, Facebook updates, blog posts and other social media data …

EMC Packages Its Big Data Analytics Offerings in “Unified” Proprietary Platform

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

EMC today announced a new Big Data Analytics appliance that brings together the company’s Greenplum analytic database, its MapR-based Hadoop distribution and its Chorus development/collaboration platform under one roof. The platform, called the Unified Analytics Platform, is more or less a repackaging …

How Many Proprietary, Value-Add Components will Hadoop Community Accept?

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

Last week, Hortonworks announced its engineers, with the help of the Apache Hadoop community, developed a new RESTful-based protocol called WebHDFS to enable a wider range of application to access the Hadoop Distributed File System. WebHDFS, which is Apache compatible, is designed …

Digital Reasoning Scores Series-B Funding, Looks to Expand Reach

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

Digital Reasoning announced today that it has raised a Series-B round of funding led by In-Q-Tel, Silver Lake Sumero and other individual investors. The company didn’t disclose how much it raised, but GigaOM’s Barb Darrow uncovered the company’s SEC filing that puts …

Survey: Data Scientists Require Rigorous Training, Freedom From Bureaucratic Obstacles

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

While some view data science as a logical extension of traditional business intelligence (BI), the professionals that populate the two fields are startlingly different, according to the results of a new survey. The survey, which was conducted by EMC and polled nearly …

EMC Announces New Cloud Computing and Data Science Training Courses

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

EMC’s Tom Clancy believes the IT industry is at an unprecedented crossroads. “If you look at the transformation we’re all talking about now, it’s all about Cloud and Big Data,” said Clancy, Vice President of Education Services at EMC. “This is the …

Determining Digital Character Demands Breaking Down Data Silos

NEWS By JEFFREY KELLY15 YEARS AGO

I can’t say for sure if your customers have moral character, but I can practically guarantee that they each have digital character. “Digital character is this idea that almost everybody these days leaves behind a giant digital breadcrumb trail,” said Elizabeth Charnock, …

Jeffrey Kelly

Latest from Jeffrey Kelly

What Comes First: The Hadoop Application or the Use Case?

Attivio Secures Patent for Inverted Index for Joining Unstructured and Structured Data

Putting Big Data to Work for the Global Good

EMC Packages Its Big Data Analytics Offerings in “Unified” Proprietary Platform

How Many Proprietary, Value-Add Components will Hadoop Community Accept?

Digital Reasoning Scores Series-B Funding, Looks to Expand Reach

Survey: Data Scientists Require Rigorous Training, Freedom From Bureaucratic Obstacles

Determining Digital Character Demands Breaking Down Data Silos

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