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For all we write about Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases and the geeky IT-facing side of big data, what really matters is how it brings value to knowledge workers.
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Last week was huge in the booming world of big data with vendors simultaneously chasing market share and sharing innovations on the big stage at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, Calif.
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Data scientists may be scarce, but big data news certainly isn’t. Quite frankly it’s hard to keep up with it all. While in a world of unlimited space and time we’d be able to shed light on everything that’s notable, we can’t because our world is a bit more limited.
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Big data isn't the “new oil” that will make us all smarter, richer, healthier. It’s just the oil without which you cannot run a business.
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Big data and the vendors that help us leverage it are “all that” in 2015. The evangelists have created believers. Enterprises are strategizing and implementing, their pilots are done. And entrepreneurs are crushing data and creating smart products, the kind we haven’t seen before.
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We’re not covering the cloud, containers or the Hadoop wars this week. Instead we’re appealing to your sense of adventure and curiosity by pointing you to some things you might want to check out, in case you missed them.
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Sorry folks, but this shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. Anytime a new technology or field emerges, so does a group of posers.
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Yesterday Salesforce completed its acquisition of RelateIQ, a startup that combines CRM and data science to get the right messages to the right person at the right time. The sales price was $392,133,512 -- not bad for a company that was founded three years ago.
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The analysts say that big data is maturing, that we’re no longer in an investigative mode and that instead we’re getting busy.
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Small pieces loosely joined in a non-zero sum world. Write that phrase down and wrap your brain around it because that’s how the vendors who are shaping computing’s next platform are thinking. It’s not about “I win, you lose,” but about how well we can play and build something together.
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Does an alliance or partnership between two tech companies have as much impact as a new software release? We wonder if anyone has ever done the calculations. If so, please share.
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Hadoop, Hadoop distros and the technologies and analytics around big data keep getting more widespread and more pragmatic to use because the benefits of leveraging them are now both proven and obvious. Rather than pontificate further, we’ll just bring you the notable news we think is worthy of your attention.
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So this week’s edition of Big Data Bits is all about A Players and it comes in two parts. The first part we’re calling Big Data for All because it features big data insight enablers like Platfora, FirstRain, Tableau and Birst.
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Hadoop sits at the center of big data. So does the news around the ecosystem, there’s a lot of it.
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