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Big Data: Companies Draw up Plans for Using Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

A surprisingly large number, 70 percent, of organizations are currently considering how Big Data projects can help their business.  20 percent of companies of companies in that group are already using Big Data on projects, 13 percent are piloting the

Big Data: Unlocking Meaning from Unstructured/Dark Data

By Dick Weisinger

Interest in both Big Data and analytics has dramatically increased over the last couple of years.  Some indication of their popularity can be seen using Google Trends, where we see large increases in the number of searches that were made

Big Data: Data Growth Presents Challenges to Federal Agencies

By Dick Weisinger

Federal IT’s push towards the cloud seems out of step with the traditional slow and plodding approach towards projects and technology that the Federal government is well known for.  It’s actually been a somewhat refreshing development.  Unfortuantely a new report

Big Data: Companies Look to the Cloud and Outsourcing for their Big Data Projects

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly taking on Big Data projects.  A recent report by GigaOM and sponsored by Logicworks investigated what motivates these organizations to use Big Data and the challenges these organizations face when they take on Big Data

Storage: Architecting an Hadoop Storage Platform for Unstructured Data

By Dick Weisinger

The convergence of massive amounts of cheap storage, fast processors, and software algorithms like MapReduce are fueling the growth of Big Data technoogy.  MapReduce is a computing framework that can distribute the processing of a problem described by very large