Category Archives: Big Data Futures
Infochimps’ New CEO on What’s Next in Big Data
Jim Kaskade’s crystal ball shared with him recently a list of upcoming big data acquisitions: EMC will buy MapR, Oracle will buy Cloudera, and Teradata will buy Hortonworks. Kaskade, the newly-appointed CEO of Infochimps, believes CIOs are ready to embrace open source big data software and that … Continue reading
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The Future of Big Data: Crawling Over Broken Glass?
Listening to Gartner analysts Sheila Childs and Merv Adrian talk recently about big data infrastructure challenges, I was reminded of a story Mike Ruettgers, former EMC Chairman and CEO, liked to tell about similar challenges in the early 1990s. At the … Continue reading
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Gartner on Big Data
In its just-published Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner predicts that “Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in … Continue reading
The Future of Big Data: Good, Bad or Ugly?
The Pew Internet Project, in collaboration with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center, recently published a report on the future of big data, based on a “non-random online sample of 1,021 Internet experts and other Internet users.”
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Big Data Quotes of the Week: July 27, 2012
“Knowing the right question, or problem to solve is very important. Sometimes the computer scientists are [pressed into service as] data scientists. But computer scientists are not trained to ask the right business questions. They might be asking some other … Continue reading