As an analyst covering data management, a single day does not go by without a healthy discussion or debate on the meaning or impact of big data.  It is quite comical in one sense, and quite inspiring in another.  We are all intrigued by this concept of having access to information so that when we [...]

ESG Research publishes  Reference Research briefs for our subscription clients that include a data-centric perspective on certain aspects of the market.  In the case of data management, we were in search of a number for big data – how big is big when it comes to databases?  Many who support their enterprise data warehouses already [...]

Yesterday, VMUG held its annual New England Winter Warmer conference at the New England Patriots’ home turf, Gillette Stadium.   While we (Mark Bowker, myself, and the ESG rock star event team) were chatting about Virtualization Computing Infrastructures in the Putnam Club, the football team was on the field getting ready for its upcoming playoff game.   [...]

Think of the transformation in the data analytics market in the last 12-18 months–especially when the data set we are talking about is big, really big.  If you were remotely responsible for business intelligence or data warehousing, now all of a sudden, you may be considering changing your title to data architect or even better, [...]

Yesterday, Oracle announced the availability of its Big Data Appliance and its new partnership with Cloudera. Let’s start with the Cloudera news.  Selling the appliance with  Cloudera’s distribution of Apache Hadoop (CDH3) and Cloudera Manager,  Oracle has placed its bet with Cloudera, referencing maturity, reliability, and enterprise quality.  Considering the options available to Oracle, this [...]

This week, the Churchill Club hosted a sold out event on the Big Data Effect.  What was ironic about attending this event is that suddenly I realized how small my world had become – ironic because my small world is all about big things . My story starts when a big database was defined by [...]