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The Charging Elephant
Hadoop is the most popular elephant of the Big Data Age. Its ecosystem and habitat are of interest even to those who can hardly spell “Hadoop.” Our clients are trying to get oriented in the jungle of...
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The Charging Elephant — Cloudera
To allow our readers compare Hadoop distribution vendors side-by-side, I forwarded the same set of questions to the participants of the recent Hadoop panel at the Gartner Catalyst conference. The...
View ArticleHow Many Degrees Are in the 360° View of the Customer?
I’ve been watching the CRM space since the term CRM was coined. The view of the customer remained at invariable 360° while new ideas, methods and companies kept adding degree by degree to the full...
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Wall Street is Hiring for Big Data
Big data finally reached Wall Street. Not for small science experiments, but seriously, in grand style, with exorbitant salaries, for production and DevOps. A couple of years ago, Silicon Valley...
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The Era of Data
In 2009, a CRM icon Tom Siebel was attacked by a charging elephant during an African safari. Ominously, this was exactly the time of changing epochs signified by another elephant, Hadoop. It was not...
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What’s Next for Big Data?
Shortly after joining Gartner, I noticed subtle magic in the air. Not Magic Quadrants – they were too obvious. It was I told you so repeated by many analysts on many occasions. It seemed almost...
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Two Main Questions about Big Data
More and more people describe the speed of big data technologies in dog years. In the lightning-fast cadence (“fail fast”), considerations for actual technical professionals who are deploying big data...
View ArticleBig Data Is Pregnant with Analytics
We are at the interesting point: big data time is over. It is now big data analytics time. Many organizations are at the point when they have figured out how to get data in Hadoop (or other big data...
View ArticleData and Analytics at Catalyst Conference: Get Oriented Now!
Catalyst conference starts tomorrow. Our track is Building a Sustainable Data and Analytics Architecture for the Digital World, and in addition, there are more talks on data and analytics in other...
View ArticleHadoop is dead, long live Hadoop!
This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hadoop. In 2006, we lived in the dark ages of data: Several databases were old news and a single Gartner analyst was covering them all. Today, a...
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