Posts Tagged ‘Big Data’

In terms of real-time messaging or event analytics on the distributed node, we think of Storm and Kafka, both famous Apache projects. Storm has been used in Twitter’s production for many years, so it proves to be powerful. On June 4, Twitter shared news that the company developed a new system called Heron to handle […]

Spark provides several ways for developer and data scientists to load, aggregate and compute data and return a result. Many Java or Scala developers would prefer to write their own application codes (aka Driver program) instead of inputting a command into the built-in spark shell or python interface. Below are some steps for how to quickly configure […]

“Be the joyful digital disrupter, not the hesitant and befuddled digital disruptee.” – Bob Evans, SVP Communications, Oracle I’m a big fan of the recently concluded series Mad Men. The main theme of the show was societal change: Recognizing what has happened, what is happening, and dealing with it in one’s professional and personal lives. […]

Yet again, Microsoft builds on their increasingly compelling Data Platform story by bringing out new offerings. As my colleague Stan Tartinovksy wrote last week, Azure Data Warehouse is coming.   But that’s not the only new piece of the Microsoft data environment. Also announced at the Ignite 2015 conference was a new Elastic Databases feature for Azure […]

Many organizations have adopted solutions with descriptive and diagnostic analytics capabilities that provide static reports and dashboards. However, these reports only provide a snapshot of the existing environment, answering the “What” and “Why” behind historical data. Advanced analytics, the next phase of the analytics adoption lifecycle, deals with uncovering insights from trends and patterns to […]

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According to a study from the University of California at San Diego, U.S. data consumption per person in 2015 has risen to 8.75 zettabytes annually, equal to a daily consumption of nine DVDs per person per day. (The reference works for me, although I think some kids today look at DVDs the way I look […]

From my previous post, we may know that Spark as a big data technology is becoming popular, powerful and used by many organizations and individuals. The Spark project was written in Scala, which is a purely object-oriented and functioning language. So, what can a Java developer do if he or she wants to learn about […]

Today, during annual Microsoft Build conference keynote, Microsoft’s own Scott Guthrie (executive VP  of cloud and enterprise group) introduced new Azure service which is going to be available in public preview in June: Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Large enterprise today can’t effectively function without big data realtime analytics. Realtime analytics means processing large amounts of […]

I recently participated in a webinar on the topic of Big Data/Advanced Analytics and how the Microsoft platform supports it.  My colleague Shankar RamaNathan spoke first about the various challenges of truly seeing ROI out of Big Data initiatives.  Then I spoke about how the Microsoft Data Platform, both in the cloud and on-premises, provides […]

Earlier this week, I read a news article about the use of Twitter, or more accurately, the use of data collected from Twitter to prohibit a passenger from boarding a United Airlines flight. Strangely enough, the person banned from the flight was probably among the people who should know the most about cyber-security and perceived […]

So many of the conversations from the Oracle Modern Customer Experience conference in Las Vegas are still on my mind. Many participants focused on how companies design the CX experience for the millennial generation. It was eye opening and frankly, also a bit perturbing. It was perturbing because as a baby boomer I don’t always […]