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Big Data: Accenture Finds Big Companies Benefit Most From Big Data

By Formtek

A recent study by Accenture presents a rosy picture on the success and benefits of Big Data.  Their survey looked at businesses that have implemented Big Data projects in order to assess their impressions on the technology.  92 percent of

Big Data: Velocity of Hadoop Adoption Tepid

By Dick Weisinger

The Hadoop hype may be petering out based on the results of a Gartner study.  Gartner found that only about one quarter of businesses say that they are doing anything at all with Hadoop, including piloting and just experimenting.  11

Big Data: Spark, Storm and Now DataTorrent Compete for Open Source Real-time Streaming Data in Hadoop

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a new option available for open-source real-time data processing in Hadoop: DataTorrent.  After roughly two years since the introduction of DataTorrent, the platform has now moved to an open-source Apache 2.0 license to allow it to better compete against rival

Data and Computations: (Bandwidth + Compute Power + Algorithms + Collaboration) = Turbocharged Research

By Dick Weisinger

The process of research can often be laboriously slow, often taking many years to even mark small steps forward.  But new technology is increasingly being applied by researchers work to greatly speed up the research process.  Increased bandwidth and compute

Analytics and Computing: On-Premise or Cloud? Wherever the Data is Created is the Best Location

By Dick Weisinger

Last time this year, tech publication articles had headlines like “Where have all the on-premise analytics solutions gone?”  That particular article, for example, pointed to the IBM Unica product and Webtrends, both announcing that they would no longer continuing development