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Big Data Analytics: Big Blue's BLU Acceleration

By Dick Weisinger

A new package it calls BLU Acceleration was recently announced by IBM Research.  BLU is intended to speed up Big Data Analytics (BDA) and reporting.  BLU is currently a technology announcement and not a product, but it undoubtedly being announced partially

Big Data: Most Businesses are Still on the Sidelines

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data has become a hot topic not only in tech journals and magazines, it’s also a topic that’s been picked up and heavily covered by the popular media, for example, it’s a frequent topic in the Wall Street Journal,

Big Data: Plotting a Path of Success with Big Data Analytics (BDA)

By Dick Weisinger

“The ability to manage and analyze Big Data and derive value from these activities will increasingly define an organization’s ability to compete or service its constituents,” said Dan Vesset, IDC Business analytics research program vice president. The market size for

Big Data: Vendors Rebrand their Products as 'Big Data Solutions'

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner estimates that globally businesses will spend $232 Billion on IT related to Big Data from now through 2016. A Gartner survey found that 42 percent of organizations say that they’ve invested in Big Data technologies or will do so within

Big Data: Hadoop Ranks on Top, but its many Challenges Make it Vulnerable

By Dick Weisinger

Hadoop started as a tool intended to jump-start Yahoo’s search engine.  And over the course of the last ten years, Hadoop has morphed into a general-purpose computing platform, in fact, the go-to platform for all things related to Big Data.