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Big Data: Businesses Still Rely on SQL while they try to Bridge the Gap in Big Data Skills

By Dick Weisinger

We keep hearing that Big Data analytics skills are in short supply.   A report byMcKinsey warned of the shortage of skilled workers in May 2011.   The report found that “A significant constraint on realizing value from Big Data will…

Big Data: Relational Databases Still Dominate Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

62 percent of companies say that they’ve deployed Big Data applications.  But the applications they’re using for Big Data sound a lot like traditional software applications.  That’s the result of a survey taken and reported by JasperSoft.   60 percent…

Technology: Creative Breakthrough 'Tipping Points'

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner’s 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging technologies comes with a new insight: tipping points.  A tipping point is a single technology component that once perfected provides a broad array of breakthrough capabilities.  Gartner’s point is that often a number of technologies are…

Storage: Innovation in Data Storage — the Engine Behind Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big data and the current wave of data analytics is a direct result of the explosive growth of data that’s been occurring over the last decade.  And the ability to collect massive amounts of data has been directly enabled by…

SaaS and Cloud Computing: Tight Budgets are Driving Rapid Growth with SMEs

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report from KPGM looks at the state of the Software as a Service market as of 2012. The Good Key contributors to the rapid growth of the global SaaS market are the following: Reduced budgets – SaaS pricing…