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Update: Replay of the webinar is at http://channelbigdata.com/video/clouds-for-small-and-big-data
The coolest part of my job is the opportunity to work with hottest technologies. I’ve been lucky over the years to be able to pick an emerging technology that I thought was going to make an impact on IT and immerse myself in it. Right now I find myself torn between two areas that I am convinced are the game changers. When I can’t decide what to pick I do both.
Cloud computing is redefining the way IT resources are provisioned. It is a fundamental change in the way [...]
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This year, Big Data is really big at the IOD Conference in Las Vegas. It is a subject of the keynotes, press releases and there are lots of breakout sessions on the topic. For a few sessions that were over capacity a repeat was scheduled. Here is one I plan to go to today and if you are at all interested in Big Data and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights (IBM’s enterprise ready implementation of Apache Hadoop) I highly recommend the session:
Session: IIM-3614B IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Product Deep Dive – Hadoop and Whole Lot More Time: Wed, 26/Oct, 02:00 PM – [...]
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Every year around the end of October I see geese heading south for the winter. And as if there was a similar instinct, those of us who are in to data and information processing head down to Las Vegas for the annual Information On Demand Conference. The conference has grown dramatically over the last few years and by all accounts it is going to be a great event this year.
Big Data will be in focus this year. There will be press releases, product announcements, demos and exhibits. Most important there will be an impressive array of technical sessions and [...]
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“Time for IBM to Take Its Hadoop Case To The Streets” is the title of Jeff Kelly’s post on his ServicesAngle blog. Before I say anything, I want to do a usual disclaimer that opinions I express here are mine and mine alone. I don’t speak for IBM. I can however, talk about how I see things as both a member of the IBM Hadoop (BigInsights) team and a community participant. And I have to agree with Jeff … it is time that IBM took its Hadoop big data message out of the C-level executive offices where it has indeed [...]
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What exactly did Oracle announce? Oracle proclaimed that they will offer a NoSQL database a key-value data store that will scale across a large number of “storage nodes”. The rest of the industry would say a “cluster” … not Oracle. The next thing on the menu perhaps provides an explanation. It is Oracle Big Data Appliance. Where the rest of the world is looking to scale NoSQL across very large clusters of commodity hardware, Oracle wants to see big expensive machines or as they call them “Engineered Systems”. It makes perfect sense for Oracle as they need to return value to their shareholders from the acquisition of SUN. Not sure it makes as much sense for the rest of us. [...]
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