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Big Data/Hadoop: Death to the Data Warehouse?

By Dick Weisinger

There’s a war on now between traditional enterprise data warehousing (EDW) versus Big Data analytics, particularly tools powered by Hadoop.  Data warehousing is losing out as businesses become overwhelmed with data.  Pulling all data into a single monolithic database and

Big Data: Growth Slows a Bit, but Continues to Barrel Along

By Dick Weisinger

The Big Data technology and services market is expected to grow 26.4 percent annually through 2018 when it will reach a size of $41.5 billion, says IDC.  That’s roughly six times the growth rate of the overall average of the

Big Data Analytics and IoT: Glassbeam Harnesses Spark

By Dick Weisinger

Glassbeam announced today the integration of their Internet of Things (IoT) analytics platform called SCALAR with Apache Spark. Glassbeam is a five-year old machine data analytics company that has built a cloud-based analytics platform specifically designed for analyzing large amounts of

Big Data: Shifting the Competitive Landscape of Industries

By Dick Weisinger

GE and Accenture have recently teamed up in a strategic alliance to jointly address big data problems.  In October, a GE/Accenture released a survey of 250 executives investigating how their businesses are using big data and predictive analytics. Key findings

Big Data: Expectations High for Positive Business Transformation

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses that have tried Big Data say that they like it.  In a survey by Accenture, 92 percent of businesses with Big Data projects say that they’re satisfied with the business outcomes and 94 percent say that their Big Data