Big Data – The New Information Before asking the crystal ball what can Big Data do for you, sit back and think about these four questions: Where’s the new information? Where could it be? If it was in the right place, what could happen? (Challenges of the main industries) What are the
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“It’s the analytics stupid!” Obviously the offense is not intended at the dear reader. It’s a wake up call for all the people excited with Hadoop and lack BI vision. The BI people that lack infrastructure vision are also to blame. Blame for what? We’ll see later in this
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Research: the heart that pumps data If you talk to any kid in school about how he acquires knowledge, he would say that is through studying. The study uses books, classes, internet resources, and all the classic means of knowledge gathering. The further school gets into science the more important it gets to gather knowledge [...]
The question is not anymore if you have a Big Data strategy, the challenge is how are you going to roll it out. What layers of your Information Systems will change? And most importantly: level up the expectations at all levels of the enterprise. Big Data at the Enterprise it’s not about hype and I [...]
Reblogged from What's The Big Data?: Summary of the presentation by Ben Rooney here Update: Ben Rooney interviews DJ Patil Read more… 6 more words, 1 more video Once again DJ Patil nailed it.
Back in March 2012 I experienced an air milage overflow: almost straight from Madrid I’ve picked a flight to Israel to speak at a Big Data conference, only to be back in Lisbon and fly again to Johannesburg in South Africa to meet several customers in the retail and manufacturing area. Back to Lisbon I packed again to London [...]
Tom Kyte on many new Database 12c features: http://t.co/z98lLxHH Via: (https://twitter.com/lucasjellema/status/257019546974683136) Filed under: DB Architecture, Oracle 12c, plsql Tagged: LinkedIn, New Features, OOW, Oracle 12c, Tom Kyte
In times of hysteria people tend to use their reptilian brain. This sub-brain, that has been with us since we were fish, or tadpoles, it’s what kicks in when we face the unknown. In computer science or information technology, organizations tend to hold down to emotions and less and less in reasoning. Could it be [...]
The CIO Challenge If you have a budget and you need to decide on your company’s IT strategy for the next 3 to 5 years, you might have been drawn to this very same question: “Should I choose Best of Breed systems, or should I align with some vendor’s strategy taking the «vendor lock-in» risks [...]
Every time the word “Architecture” comes along in an IT audience it means something different in each and every people’s mind. The level of maturity and experiences in IT are so broad and so wide that these communication gaps tend to drive discussions to the realms of surrealism. Things are in fact much simpler, and this [...]
Frameworks and Cavemen People need to frame things all the time. Saying that the world has become complex, it’s the same as saying that things have become more unpredictable. Not knowing, not controlling what is going to happen, or simply not being able to let go, it’s not possible for most people these days. So [...]
Last March 2012 I was in Tel-Aviv to present Oracle’s strategy on Big Data in a Techeads event. I had only 15 minutes! It was a challenge to speak for such a vast audience in Israel but the feedback was good and I’ve managed to shake the waters enough so people look at it from [...]
This week I’m in Reading, UK to be hadoopized by Cloudera and all of the sudden: wham! bam! The Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA) arrives to the Oracle Solution Center! Only due to Mr. Bayliss courtesy I’ve managed to go inside the data center with other colleagues and see/touch the latest and greatest Engineered System by [...]
Last September 2011 I flew to London to be a part of a workshop ran by Oracle Product Management, and amongst them was David Segleau, Director of Product Management. His new baby was the Oracle NoSQL Database. What stroke me was that it is based on a very powerful technology that Oracle got through the [...]
Whenever I give my kids a choice of breakfast, they will invariably choose what I reckon as the “wrong” choice. It’s always the one with more sugar, or non-natural ingredients. When they don’t have a choice, they always state their preferences. In technology such preferences also exist. Some of them very passionate. Specially after Oracle [...]