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Enterprise Search: Solr + Hadoop = Simplified Google-like Big Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

One problem with straight-up Hadoop solutions has been the difficulty of performing ad-hoc queries across the entire data set.  Cloudera now offers a solution that combines Apache Solr with Hadoop, a step that could greatly shrink the skill gap that…

Big Data: Potential for Federal Agencies to save a half Trillion Dollars

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data has the potential to shave off 14 percent of current federal agency budgets, which would result in an annual savings of nearly $500 billion.  That’s the result of a study by MeriTalk and sponsored by EMC: The Smarter…

IT Spending Drops as Business Shift from Traditional Infrastructure to Mobile and Cloud Computing

By Dick Weisinger

JP Morgan has cut the IT spending budget of businesses for the remainder of 2013.  The two main reasons are a drop in the number PC being bought and a shift in spending away from traditional IT infrastructure to the…

BPM: Failure to Adapt Quickly to the Cloud Slows Growth

By Dick Weisinger

We’ve already seen one enterprise technology stumble over the last year: Business Intelligence (BI).  In that case, BI lost steam because Big Data muscled it’s way in as an alternative or competing approach for how to do analytics.  Another enterprise…

Data Management: Distributing Data Analysis Using a Hub-and-Spoke Architecture

By Dick Weisinger

A “Hub and Spoke” architecture for managing data can help organizations become more efficient in analyzing and accessing data while simultaneously breaking down data silos. Brian Hopkins, Forrester analyst, told InformationAge that “yesterday’s correct data architecture involved centralized warehouses, marts,…