It began with Google and Yahoo!, both of whom has lots of data, partly because they were offering search services, and the web even in its early days, was big data by any reasonable metric. And when I write “reasonable metric” I have to pause for a while because when you think of it there [...]

As more applications and services proliferate in the Cloud, it may well be that this overall Cloud tech arena will be instrumental in demonstrating the increasingly important role of data integration for meaningful and timely business processes and operations. Enterprises have already made a start with using Cloud services for on demand BI and analytics, [...]

Whether the focus of an enterprise is on “big data” or not, analytics-driven companies are faced with processing many new data sources from inside and outside the firewall. These data sources may be complex structures — or the complexities may come from other aspects such as data trading protocols and message transports. Depending on the [...]

A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]

The term “big data” has become very popular in some segments of industry to describe the massive deluge of information that is being produced everyday in many formats. Forrester defines big data as techniques and technologies that make it economical to deal with data at an extreme scale. Big data is about three things: 1. [...]