Everyone Wants a Data Driven Business and That’s The Problem

“Data enabled” and “data driven”. These are the latest buzzwords adopted by the purveyors of data analytics products and modern management. Conceptually, it sounds great. Every business has a ton of data floating around – data about operations,...

Intel Drops a Big Data Shocker

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Intel surprised the Big Data world by announcing its own Hadoop distribution. Aptly named the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, the distribution includes several Intel contributed enhancements that it claims will improve performance...

A Big Data Approach to Traffic

It’s popular to think that analytics and big data are becoming ubiquitous. Add to this the “Internet of Things” concept that vendors, experts, journalists, and pundits keep telling us is coming and it is easy to get the impression that we are awash...