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by Angela Guess Brian Proffitt of ITWorld reports, “Hadoop has been the undisputed king of big data for a while, but while the emperor has some clothes, the limitations of Hadoop have made the outfit skimpier than it needed to be. Now Hadoop developers are building the new processing system known as YARN, to knit the...
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by Rod MacPherson I recently hosted an Executive Breakfast Seminar on Open Data in Ottawa, Canada and was pleasantly surprised by the greater than expected turnout by senior government personnel wanting to learn more about the risk, challenges, opportunities and benefits of Canada’s Open Government Action Plan. (see data.gc.ca) Like many other jurisdictions, including...
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by Angela Guess Jeff St. John of Green Tech Grid recently discussed the convergence of Versant, NoSQL solutions, and the Smart Grid challenge. He writes, “One of the biggest, baddest smart grid data sets out there describes how more than 50 million people lost power in the northeastern U.S. and Canada on Thursday, Aug....
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by Angela Guess Brian McKenna of Search Data Management reports, “Open source big data technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. Speaking at a Computer Weekly roundtable on the topic, Bob Harris, chief technology officer...
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By Christine Denney Welcome to the third installment of the “Figure 8” series! In last month’s post, we reviewed essentials 2-4 and discussed guidance for conducting the current state assessment and inventory. With essentials 5-7, we move past the analysis (understanding the “what”) and into building the architecture (the “how”). You might be wondering why self stick...
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by Angela Guess Michael Vizard of IT Business Edge has called on DBAs not to act as bottlenecks in agile application development. He explains, “With the rise of agile development, NoSQL databases and the whole concept of platform as a service (PaaS), the ability to develop and launch new applications has never been faster....
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by Angela Guess William McKnight has written an article for BeyeNetwork discussing how increasing Business Intelligence demands are pushing the limits of data architecture. He writes, “We all know change is constant, but when we are responding to demands to extract value from new forms of the most important asset in modern competitive business...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports that Infochimps has released version 1.1 of its real-time data platform. He writes, “Infochimps, the Austin, Texas-based startup that transitioned in February from a data marketplace into a big data platform, has stepped up its abilities to handle streaming data. On Tuesday, it unveiled the Infochimps...
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by Charles Roe In March 2011, the innovative architect Thomas Heatherwick presented some of his company’s newest projects at TED, especially his design for the Seed Cathedral, the UK’s 2010 World Expo pavilion. His TED talk focused on the idea of creating buildings that have materiality and soulfulness like smaller objects such as beads...
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The Need to Know for Information Architects: Big Data to Big Information from DATAVERSITY To view just the slides, click HERE. This webinar is brought to you in partnership with: About the Presentation As we grapple with the many challenges brought forth by Big Data, a need for data management has made itself...
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