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Big Data is the new oil, the new gold, the new Californium Isotope … add your own metaphor. You’ve heard it said before, and you’ll hear it said again and again. 

Enterprises are hell-bent on managing data -- and managing data where there is no inherent data lifecycle management framework to leverage is a bear. A bear that most Enterprises prefer not to wrestle with.

Enterprise technology provider IBM is unveiling new data acceleration and Hadoop technologies it says will make analyzing volumes of big data faster and easier.

Open Source is sexy in a cloudy, big data world, but if you want your commercial-grade Hadoop distribution to be speedy, reliable and secure, you’ll be better off parting with a few dollars and buying a proprietary solution like ours.

Microsoft has announced several Windows Azure updates this week including a Hadoop distribution preview called HDInsight.

Enterprise software giant Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, private cloud infrastructure management technology provider. Nimbula solutions are designed to assist users in managing their cloud infrastructure resources and also work in public and hybrid cloud environments.

Everyone is doing big data, or least it would appear so from the forums, blog posts and media articles currently appearing on the Web. But big data solutions are expensive and require investment in human resources and technology, which not every enterprise has the resources to do. So how widespread is big data adoption? Open source integration specialist, Talend went to the market to find out and came back with some interesting results.

The Chief Marketing Officer Myth
Despite what many say, the CMO is not becoming the dominant enterprise software buyer -- the CIO will keep this crown.

Marketing automation platforms help marketers develop 1:1 relationships at broadcast scale. Here's a look at how 5 successful marketing automation strategies.

Intranet Governance is Key
As Intranets grow in complexity, the importance of Intranet governance is gaining popularity.

Big Data for Everyone
It's been quite a week for big data with Hadoop headlines galore. Check out news from Intel, EMC and Cloudera. These are groundbreaking approaches to once mind-numbing tasks.

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What good is the best Hadoop solution if it becomes unavailable when Enterprises users most need it? Not much, is the obvious answer. For Enterprises who use, or plan to use, Hadoop for mission critical applications that presents a real problem.

In case you've been sleeping under a rock, yesterday afternoon Intel announced that it has developed its own distribution of Apache Hadoop, The Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop. What’s different about it, as compared to other Hadoop vendors (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, EMC’s Pivotal HD, HP’s, IBM’s and WANdisco’s -- did I miss any?), is that it’s built from the silicon up which should give it an edge in delivering performance and scalability. 

Every Hadoop vendor wants to be king of the Enterprise. Why? Because that’s where the money is.

The earth may rattle and jaws may drop in Silicon Valley this afternoon when EMC Greenplum introduces Pivotal HD, the world’s most powerful Hadoop distribution in history. (The latter according to EMC Greenplum).

Further evidence that big data is going mainstream is the announcement from Hortonworks that its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDPW) is available in beta, making it the first Apache Hadoop distribution that is available for both Windows and Linux.

We talk often about big data and big data technologies. However, in all the discussion around the best deployments and the best enterprise strategies, the human element in the equation is often overlooked. In the introduction to the AIIM Executive Leadership Council’s examination of this problem, John Mancini and Thorton May argue that this needs to be addressed in order for enterprises to achieve an acceptable level of ROI with their big data deployments.

Attunity, an enterprise software solution company has released an updated version of their Attunity RepliWeb for Enterprise File Replication (EFR) product. With this release Attunity has enabled the EFR to replicate data files to, from and between the Apache Hadoop analytics platform.