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Big Data: Hadoop Causes Rewiring of ETL Processes into ELT Ones

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data may bring with it Big Changes in the actual data flow involved in the data analysis process.  Data analysis is often preceded by a process called ETL which preps and collects the data that is to be analyzed.…

Open Source and the Open Cloud: Customers Look for Ways to Minimize Future Lock-in

By Dick Weisinger

What are the components of the ‘Open Cloud’?  The top two criteria I would have selected are the use of Open standards and to a lesser degree the use of Open Software. It turns out that when this question was…

Big Data: 2013 Will Be A Big Year of Growth for the Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Big data is rapidly being adopted by many companies worldwide.  IDC expects healthy revenues from Big Data globally, with Big Data  revenues even doubling in some locations like Asia over the next two years.  Big Data helps businesses derive business…

Open Source: A Golden Age of Development

By Dick Weisinger

Open source used to be an aberration — now it is an imperative.  If you’re not using or developing open source projects, you’re putting your business at risk.  That’s the message from Black Duck Software and Forrester, as recently presented…

The Internet of Things: Engine of Economic Growth?

By Dick Weisinger

Small improvements can have big and lasting results.  A report from GE estimates that using the internet to improve the connection of people, data and machines that overall productivity of people can be increased by 1 to 1.5 percentage points…