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Big Data: Businesses Still Rely on SQL while they try to Bridge the Gap in Big Data Skills

By Dick Weisinger

We keep hearing that Big Data analytics skills are in short supply.   A report byMcKinsey warned of the shortage of skilled workers in May 2011.   The report found that “A significant constraint on realizing value from Big Data will

Big Data: Relational Databases Still Dominate Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

62 percent of companies say that they’ve deployed Big Data applications.  But the applications they’re using for Big Data sound a lot like traditional software applications.  That’s the result of a survey taken and reported by JasperSoft.   60 percent

Storage: Innovation in Data Storage — the Engine Behind Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big data and the current wave of data analytics is a direct result of the explosive growth of data that’s been occurring over the last decade.  And the ability to collect massive amounts of data has been directly enabled by

Big Data: What Makes a Data Scientist Good?

By Dick Weisinger

The rise of Big Data brings along with it a need to have skilled workers that can analyze and make sense out of all of it.  These workers are being called ‘data scientists.’ Mike Driscoll, the founder of Big Data

Big Data: Smart Grids and new Technologies Wallop Utility Companies with Data Overflow

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle has issued a new report outlining how the use of Big Data provides the potential to be transformative for the utility industry.  The report is called “Utility Transformations: Big Data, Bigger Opportunities”.  This is a companion report from Oracle