Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

The 7 Cs of the Cloud: A Big Data Taxonomy

Posted on July 17, 2011 by GilPress

What’s the new landscape of the information business as Cloud Computing and the Big Data Wave usher in the Age of Big Cloud Data (ABCD)?

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The First Law of Big Data

Posted on June 28, 2011 by GilPress

EMC released today the 5th annual Digital Universe study from IDC.  So now we have five years’ worth of estimating, with a consistent methodology, the amount of data created and copied annually in the world. It turns out that the … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing and Big Data

Posted on June 22, 2011 by GilPress

The Wikipedia article on Big Data says it “requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process large quantities of data within tolerable elapsed times.” The examples given (Hadoop, MapReduce, Cloud Computing, etc.) do not include one very exceptional technology, the human brain, … Continue reading →

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Big Data News Roundup

Posted on June 14, 2011 by GilPress

IBM’s Watson visited a few conferences last week. Watson’s lead developer, David Ferrucci delivered a keynote at the ACM’s 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference in San Jose, CA.

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Hunch.com: Training the Web to be Your Friend

Posted on June 6, 2011 by GilPress

Would you like the Web to understand your inner GPS? Then go to Hunch.com and start training the Web. After answering a few questions about your tastes, preferences, and opinions, you will get a set of recommendations from other Hunch … Continue reading →

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Big Data for Enterprise Decisions

Posted on June 1, 2011 by GilPress

James Taylor: “For all the focus on visualization and ad-hoc queries in Big Data systems, the end result is often going to be automation – a Decision Management system. 

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Data Scientists Wanted

Posted on June 1, 2011 by GilPress

“The United States alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers and analysts with the skills to understand and make decisions based on the analysis of big data.” –McKinsey

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All You Need is Optimized Data

Posted on June 1, 2011 by GilPress

“[Match.com’s vice-president of strategy Amarnath] Thombre says the technology that helps people fall in love isn’t so different from the kind that enables companies to whisk goods from warehouses to store shelves. ‘In both situations, you are trying to optimize … Continue reading →

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Big Data and the Future of Business: Don’t Automate, Analyze

Posted on June 1, 2011 by GilPress

Sometime ago I got an email from Netflix telling me that “recently you may have had trouble instantly watching TV episodes or movies due to technical issues.”As a matter of fact, I did not experience any “technical difficulties.” I simply … Continue reading →

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