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If data is the new oil, then more refining capacity is needed.  Many customers are leveraging the data to be part of the core competitive advantage.   However, refining that data to become valuable, actionable information is difficult. Data collection and preparation take an inordinate amount of man…

As we move further into the digital transformation era, the amount of data being created and things being connected continues to explode. This explosion in connections and data combined with applied analytics has the potential to transform our cities, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing and en…

Someone at a meeting recently told me how cool it was that big data was finally moving out of the early adopter phase. He’s lucky I wasn’t drinking a beverage at the time, or he might have ended up wearing it. I’m accused of being sort of a unicorn when it comes to the Big Data eco…

Big data has become big business as businesses mine vast stores of data for insights that can help identify trends, predict behavior, and empower decision makers. And the Internet of Everything (IoE) is creating new analytic use cases and possibilities that were inconceivable just a few years ago. C…

A little over a month ago we had a chance to present as session in conjunction with Eric Sammer of Cloudera on Designing Hadoop for the Enterprise Data Center and findings at Strata + Hadoop World 2012 . Taking a look back, we started this initiative back in early 2011 as the demand for Hadoop was o…