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Big Data Bits: Strata + Hadoop World Rewind
Last week was huge in the booming world of big data with vendors simultaneously chasing market share and sharing innovations on the big stage at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, Calif.
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Faking Big Data #strataconf
Sorry folks, but this shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. Anytime a new technology or field emerges, so does a group of posers.
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Microsoft's Big Data Steps Boost Customer Insights #Strataconf
Microsoft hasn’t been shy about its goals for the data-driven age. It plans to bring business intelligence to a billion screens and to remove the barriers that are preventing broad adoption of advanced analytics.
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Big Data Isn't a Science Experiment, It's About Impact
Not everyone can stand before a conference with “Hadoop World” in its title and tell the crowd of enthusiasts that Hadoop isn't the right solution for every Big Data problem. But Ken Rudin did exactly that at the Strata + Hadoop World conference last month.
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Big Data Gets Sticky #strataconf
Ok, everyone knows that data scientists are sexy, but what about local TV reporters who can’t keep themselves from saying words like Hadoop, MapReduce, NoSQL, JSON and petabyte? They were on my television when I came home from the Strata + Hadoop World conference, I kid you not.
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Big Data Bits: The Strata Edition - Beyond Hadoop Distributions
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends … Even though we’ve left the Strata + Hadoop World conference held in New York City last week, the notable news we didn’t report keeps buzzing in our ears, reminding us that we need to share it with you.
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Open Data is Worth $3 Trillion, New McKinsey Report Claims
You don't have to sell Michael Chui on the importance of big data. He knows the amount of data worldwide is exploding, that use of big data is becoming a key basis of competition and growth -- and that we're on the cusp of a critical shortage of data scientists.
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Infochimps Delivers Big Data Insights Without the Heartburn #strataconf
Infochimps isn’t monkeying around with Big Data, they’re busy delivering insights to customers’ doors. “We’re the ones who let the genie out of the bottle,” says Jim Kaskade, Infochimps’ newish CEO. The genie, of course, is the one who provides strategic insights gleaned from big data, that make your
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Hey Salesforce, Hey Oracle, Can You Do This? SAP Infuses Big Data Insights into CRM Apps #strataconf
Now that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce boss Marc Benioff are bosom buddies again, they must have forgotten that they and their companies still have formidable competition.
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Cloudera Changes the Data Game: 'Watch Us Become a Data Hub' #strataconf
Cloudera watchers would have to be blind to think that the company is only about Hadoop.
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Microsoft's Plan to Bring Big Data to a Billion Users #strataconf
When it comes to big data, Microsoft doesn’t think small. The company wants to bring big data insights to a billion users, said Eron Kelly, the general manager of product marketing for Microsoft’s Data Platform Group.
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Microsoft Officially Releases Its Hadoop Distro For The Cloud #strataconf
Microsoft has a dream — Big Data democratized through easy to use tools and a unified data platform. Quentin Clark, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, will be at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 in New York City tomorrow to talk about the company’s vision.
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EMC Isilon: Hadooping With Us Is Free #strataconf
Say you were a contestant on Jeopardy, and the answer Alex Trebek read was “EMC, Hadoop." Chances are the question you’d buzz-in with would be "What is Pivotal ?" — referring to the company EMC spun-off less than a year ago.
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The Strata Conference, Big Data Myths and Customer Insight #strataconf
There are plenty of reasons to avoid talking about big data. It makes people anxious, confused and quizzical. Sometimes, two minutes into a conversation, you realize the person you're speaking with doesn't have a clue about big data.
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