Databases
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Published on Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 2:31 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Julie Lockner |
ESG Reference Research includes data-centric reports and briefs designed for market intelligence, marketing, product marketing/management, engineering, and corporate strategy professionals at IT vendor organizations. ESG’s Reference Research content is designed to assist in market segmentation, market sizing, product requirements analysis, and other business planning exercises. This Reference Research brief focuses ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Julie Lockner |
I just wrote this article for Info Week about Big Data, where outside of stealing the concepts from Julie Lockner, we redefine this absurdly ill defined term.
Simply put, big data applies to any data set that breaks the boundaries and conventional capabilities of IT. That’s it. What kinds ...
Published on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 4:23 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Julie Lockner |
ESG Reference Research includes data-centric reports and briefs designed for market intelligence, marketing, product marketing/management, engineering, and corporate strategy professionals at IT vendor organizations. ESG’s Reference Research content is designed to assist in market segmentation, market sizing, product requirements analysis, and other business planning exercises. This Reference Research brief focuses ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Julie Lockner |
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 ...
EMC's Greenplum Data Computing Division made some announcements this week designed to address some serious challenges plaguing the market adoption of Big Data Anaytics platforms. ESG's recent research report, The Impact of Big Data on Data Analytics, cited a lack of skilled resources as a top challenge facing data analytics ...
