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by Angela Guess A recent article notes that many data professionals are claiming that Big Data will change everything. The author, Bill Franks, asks whether this is really the case: “As with any new topic getting a lot of attention, there are all sorts of claims related to how Big Data is going to...
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by Angela Guess A new survey has revealed some disconcerting opinions about the current state of Big Data solutions. The article states, “Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of R software, services and support, today released survey findings on the state of “Big Data” analytics. The company polled attendees this week at the Joint...
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A Fable with a moral by David Plotkin Once upon a time, there was a company. This company had a terrible time recognizing their customers and understanding what products those customers had. The reasons for this weren’t hard to understand. The company’s main business was selling insurance, and each type...
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by Angela Guess A new report out of data security company Imperva states that “web applications are probed or attacked 27 times an hour, or once every two minutes. At the peak of attacks, some Web applications see probes or attacks 25,000 times an hour, or seven times per second. The research gives concrete...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports, “The California Independent System Operator Corporation has installed an 80-foot by 6.5-foot screen in its control room to display real-time power-grid data from thousands of endpoints. Its new system is powered by software from Space-Time Insight, whose software melds real-time geospatial data with Google Maps to give...
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by Angela Guess A recent article discusses how Tableau, a Seattle-based data visualization company is making data more accessible and interesting to end users through visualization. The article notes, “As more and more data gets uploaded to the Web, it needs to be analyzed and made sense of. Data visualization is one of the...
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by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy recently reported on the Allosphere, “a tool for new ways of seeing enormous amounts of data – and quite possibly, ourselves. The machine is egg-shaped, three stories tall, and located on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Scientists stand on a catwalk that runs through its...
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by Angela Guess Brian Hopkins recently wrote about spiders and elephants, metaphorically speaking. He begins, “Spiders refers to the battle for control of the webs that connect us all together. Google won the first race by connecting webs of content, and now the second race is on for control of the social web. Facebook...
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by Angela Guess A recent article out of Intel discusses the converging path of Big Data and the semantic web. The article states, “Some would have you believe that there is no large data-analysis problem that can’t best be solved with a pile of inexpensive dual-socket servers, some Ethernet, and an army of Hadoop...
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by Angela Guess Clemens Pfeiffer offers a three layer approach to data center management. He writes, “Data center managers must find ways to tie together diverse data (such as power, temperature, humidity, utilization, application service levels, and many more) from different sources into an overarching monitoring and analytics environment that lets them make better...
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