Where does the value of big data truly present itself, in the data itself or in the algorithms we use to make sense of it? Bill Franks of Teradata comes down sharply on the side of the data: …I’m convinced that new information will beat new algorithms and new metrics based on existing information almost […]
Webopedia cites IDC research showing that we — presumably meaning humanity, all of civilization — produced 2.8 zettabytes in 2012. (That’s 2.8 trillion gigabytes, for those who couldn’t remember where “zetta” falls on the scale of hugeness.) In what may be a corallary to Moore’s Law, IDC also says that the total amount of data […]
While my recent observation that Data Is Eating Us may have come off as tongue-in-cheek, the reality behind it is no joke. Most people aren’t (yet) transforming their basic bodily functions in order to have more time to analyze data, but there is no question that the fundamental dynamic between human beings and data is […]
At the recent SAP Teched && decode in Berlin (and, no — for those unfamiliar, there are no typos in my presentation of the event’s name) Bernd Leukert, a member of the executive board of SAP SE Products and Innovation, led a keynote session touching on several of the themes I have been writing about […]
Is analyzing big data more fun than eating? Well, it might just be. For some, at least. Anyway, that is one of the premises of Platfora’s recent Soylent giveaway promotion. For those who need catching up: Platfora is a Hadoop-native big data analytics platform. Soylent is an instant meal replacement, designed to provide 100% of […]
The relentless wave of change that is transforming our world from being one made primarily out of stuff to one made primarily out of data has a name. It’s called datafication. Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the datafication of business, of society, and of everyday life. There appear to be three major […]
I think maybe big data is being under-hyped. That’s right. Under. And, yes, I know how ridiculous that sounds. And I know how suspect it sounds coming from a guy who spent all those years in product marketing, specifically marketing a product with strong big data tendencies (although we didn’t use that word to position […]
Oracle is making a big, big splash with the release of Oracle 12C, touting it as “the future of the database.” If you’re as interested in the future as I am, you are probably wondering what, exactly, the future of the database will look like. In the video below, Larry Ellison lays it all out […]