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Are you a data scientist? This company says you are | #HS16SJ
We all know that Big Data is big for a reason: It takes a very large amount of data for an analytics tool to produce actionable intelligence. The problem is that when time is of the essence — and it usually is — extracting, cleansing and preparing data can take too long, allowing the window ...
‘It’s not a Hadoop-only world’: Casting a wider data net | #HS16SJ
Data keeps growing, and data science and application grow with it as do their complexity. Companies trying to get value from data can feel like they’re playing a catch-up game where they never quite capture what they’re after. This is why partnering among vendors is growing as they find that many hands make lighter work. ...
Do you spend more time solving vendor problems than business problems? | #HS16SJ
How many times have you heard a VP or CTO of a technology company say they’re “business solutions” providers not product pushers? If that’s true, why are there so many different answers to the same question? If company X really has the best technology for a job, why does company Y insist that they do as ...
Open vs. Open Source: How one proprietary company utilizes Hadoop open-source software | #HS16SJ
As open-source continues to expand, it’s interesting to see how proprietary companies capitalize on it to offer products and services to customers. These vendors are the bottled water of IT. Yeah, customers could trek through the woods to the spring, but it’s so much simpler to pay for the product packaged by someone else. “We ...
The plot thickens: Converged vs. connected in the data apps race | #HS16SJ
Some say that 2016 will be the moment of truth for Big Data. Hype has steadily gathered around data for the past few years, and it seems now to have reached fever pitch. At the conferences, in the boardrooms and on IT teams, the question on everyone’s minds now is, “Where are the applications?” According ...
Natural selection: Is Apache the environment of evolution for Big Data? | #HS16SJ
In much the way that different physical environments shape organisms, the environment where a new technology lives will shape platforms that utilize it. Specifically, the cycle of change and innovation can be difficult to keep up with for platform vendors utilizing the technology. With the breakneck pace of innovation in Big Data right now, it’s ...
Is Linkedin’s cash-out a preview of coming attractions? | #HS16SJ
When news of Linkedin’s $26 billion sale to Microsoft hit, some in IT and business circles were at first a little stumped. What did this career networking site have that was so valuable to the software behemoth? If they’d done their homework on Big Data, however, they may not have been so surprised. Discussing the value ...
Should I stay or should I go? Figuring out where data should live | #HS16SJ
Everyone wants in on Big Data — the more data they can amass the better, right? Well, not for their traditional on-prem data centers. Companies want a large enough space to store all the data they can get their hands on, but does that mean compromising on other infrastructure features? Praveen Kankariya, CEO of Impetus ...
The revolution will be digitized: Open-source and the next industrial revolution | #RHSummit
Red Hat Summit kicked off today at the Moscone North in San Francisco with a keynote that began with an orchestral ensemble playing on stage. The theme of the summit was “the power of participation,” and the orchestra was chosen to illustrate that theme. The session’s keynote speakers talked about open-source collaboration and the way individual actors synthesize ...
Keeping it open: One company’s unique value proposition | #IBMOCA
They’re not going to buy the cow if they’re getting the milk for free — that old saw might be re-purposed to talk open-source versus proprietary IT. But in an interesting twist, one company has found that providing its technology in a free, open version and as a paid service package is actually proving to be ...
