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Big Data: Best Practices for Building Competency with Hadoop

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data platforms based on Hadoop and MapReduce technology are becoming increasingly popular.  But how can this organizations most effectively use them? James G. Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, recommends in the report “Enterprise Hadoop Best Practices: Concrete Guidelines…

Cloud Computing Security: Can the Cloud Ever Be More Secure than On-Premise?

By Dick Weisinger

On one hand there is a widely held belief that, by its very nature, data stored in the cloud is not as secure as data managed on-premise.   That sentiment plays front and center with warnings like the one from Francis…

Big Data: Some Companies Are Over Their Head — Suffering from 'Insight Deficit'

By Dick Weisinger

Over half of global enterprises are allocating money to spend on Big Data IT investments over the next two to five years, and a third of all global companies will begin spending on Big Data technologies over the next year.…

Enterprise Software: Big Data and Cloud Drive Growth in Use of Data Integration Tools

By Dick Weisinger

The market for data integration tools grew 20 percent in 2010 to $1.63 billion.   And the market is expected to grow another 15% in 2011.  That’s according to Gartner’s 2011 report on Data Integration Tools. Gartner says that “Data…

Cloud Computing: Cloud-Standard Alliances Unite

By Dick Weisinger

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) and The Green Grid (TGG) alliance have announced that they’re joining forces in their efforts to create standards for the cloud. The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology…