Big Data is the hype term du jour. You see it mentioned in IT articles everywhere; it even makes an occasional appearance in the national press. Such exposure in the media naturally impacts people working in IT, who are mesmerized by the various reports of the challenges and opportunities of “Big Data,” although many of [...]

I was very pleased to see that Pervasive’s recent Integration World conference included new thought leadership from Pervasive around Big Data, including analytics and integration.  The idea that you don’t need to adjust your data integration approaches and technology to accommodate Big Data gets many enterprises in trouble these days.  Indeed, there are a few [...]

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 [...]