Big Data Vendor Roundup

The latest hot trend is Big Data. But you knew that already having heard the hype, oh, just about everywhere. So you’re ready now to take a look at the vendor lineup and hopefully pick a winner. Let’s break the contenders down then, take a look at who they are and what they’ve got, and…

Big Data a $50 Billion Market by 2012?

The world is buzzing about Big Data and it begs the question: “How big is the Big Data market?” Unable to find any market size information, Wikibon, a open-source-style community of industry analysts, kicked off a project to study the size and forecast the market and report on market shares. The study, How Big is…

Profiting from Big Data Requires Human Insight

by Scott Yara of Greenplum, a division of EMC Pioneering organizations are now working with Big Data, data that is either too voluminous or too unstructured to be managed using traditional database technologies and are employing analytical tools to analyze and make decisions on it. Because of this, the role of a “data scientist” has…