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 [...]

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. [...]

With the growing interest in the potential business value to be gleaned from “Big Data” or Extreme Information analytics, a new role has been gaining interest: the Data Scientist. The data scientist is a hybrid role encompassing computer science, advanced statistics/mathematics, forensics analytics and other advanced skills, as well as business savvy. The data scientist [...]

Companies used to see their “Data” as a single entity, defined and contained in the enterprise. These companies are now challenged – and rewarded – to understand that potentially relevant “data’ is everywhere and must be mined to find usable building blocks for new intelligence requirements. This ubiquitous information that is mainly called ‘Big Data’ [...]

Calxeda has gotten a lot of coverage over the last few days about their strategic partnerships, and being within a year of generally available ARM-based servers (Austin American Statesman, Channel Register, GigaOm, MSP News). One of the partners they announced is the company that I work for, Pervasive Software, which makes Pervasive DataRush™, a revolutionary [...]