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Extreme Data: High Speed Growth Predicted for Big Data Market

By Dick Weisinger

During the start of 2012, analysts have been busy collecting data points and crunching the numbers to determine the size and trajectory of the Big Data market.  There is some divergence between the results of the analyses — but it’s

Extreme Data: Businesses Seek Competitive Advantage With Big Data Analytics

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly organizations are collecting large amounts of data.  Big Data is one tool that has become available to help organizations turn their data to their advantage. Forrester Research estimates that enterprise data is growing annually at a rate of 40

Big Data: Analytics Backbone for the Internet of Things (IoT)

By Dick Weisinger

Refrigerators that can report their food-stock inventory, thermostats that self-regulate based on your habits and routines, basements that tweet you when they flood.  These are the kinds of things that an emerging technology called the Internet of Things (IoT) is

Big Data: The Ground Hog Cycle for In-Memory Computing

By Dick Weisinger

In Gartner’s list of top-10 strategic technologies for 2012, it lists In-Memory Computing at number eight.  Just what is that, and what’s the benefit of using it? Quite simply it is adding large amounts of available memory to computers to

Big Data: Potential for Bandwidth to Choke on Massive Data Analysis

By Dick Weisinger

While physicists are studying the possibility that they’ve discovered neutrinos that can travel faster than the speed of light, data scientists studying Big Data are finding that data growth is blowing past the growth estimates of Moore’s law which has