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Data Virtualization: Abstracting Cloud and On-Premise Data into a Single Logical Access Point

By Dick Weisinger

Data virtualization is a method that allows the administration and access to heterogeneous sources of data as if they were a single source.  At the core of data virtualization is the abstraction layer that provides a unified access to disparate…

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May 1st, 2015
Category: Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Management
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Big Data Disruption: Big Data is Giving Competitive Advantage to First Comers

By Dick Weisinger

63 percent of businesses think big data is changing how they do business, according to a recent study by CapGemini and EMC.  The boundaries of traditional businesses are moving.  New providers are entering industries and areas that seemed until recently to…

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April 24th, 2015
Category: Big Data
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Big Data: Businesses with Petabyte Data Sets Becoming More Common

By Dick Weisinger

Data initiatives within companies are increasingly seeing boasts in funding.  A report by IDG found that, on average, businesses will be spending $7.4M on data-related IT projects within the next year, but the investment is heavily skewed by the amount…

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April 21st, 2015
Category: Big Data, Data Analytics
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Big Data: Speeding up Big Data Processing with Apache Spark

By Dick Weisinger

Apache Spark is quickly gaining a strong following among Big Data users.  The big advantage of using Spark is that it allows in-memory processing which greatly speeds up the ingestion and processing of data.  Spark is also a bit more…

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April 13th, 2015
Category: Big Data
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Apache Spark: Turbocharging Past Hadoop’s MapReduce

By Dick Weisinger

Apache Spark appears to be igniting Big Data projects in 2015.  Spark is an Apache open source engine built for Hadoop to perform sophisticated data analysis and analytics.  Compared to Hadoop-only applications, Spark applications are as much as 10 to…

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April 6th, 2015
Category: Big Data
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