Enterprises have overwhelmingly committed to accelerating their transition to new technologies, with the goal in mind to free up IT investment dollars in order to create more strategic business-changing applications and… Read more »
A radical redrawing of a firm’s technology road map can enable an IT department to be more focused on strategic applications and development and to work more closely with non-IT departments… Read more »
In his Weekly Update, Stowe Boyd, the Gigaom Research curator for social, notes that ‘the fear of big data’ is growing. He attributes some of the backlash Facebook has suffered for… Read more »
Analytics is all the rage, with Hadoop and big data leading the hype. But the new technologies are not yet mature, a market full of startups is yet to shake out,… Read more »
Science magazine last week published an analysis of the errors and limitations in Google Flu Trends, the flu trend analysis that Google generates from its search engine traffic; and news stories… Read more »
Increasingly, machine learning is the critical process making sense of big data for consumers. From music to cooking and office apps, machine learning is providing a twist on expert systems for… Read more »
The news for 2014 will be the further acceptance and adoption—rather than backlash and rejection—of the major technologies so vigorously hyped in 2013. Cloud, big data, mobile, social and consumerization were… Read more »
How will enterprise customers and database vendors respond to the proliferation of databases within a Hadoop ecosystem? As discussed in parts one and two, Gigaom analyst George Gilbert sees a confluence… Read more »
In part one, we looked at the forces driving a proliferation of new database solutions, loosely ordered within an emerging Hadoop ecosystem. Examples of these specialized analytical engines include: 1) Databases… Read more »
Most enterprise databases have come in two basic flavors over the past 25 years: 1) relational databases optimized for transaction processing, and 2) relational databases optimized for data warehousing. But that… Read more »