I love technology. That’s why I study and write about it. I’ve spent my entire professional life around data storage systems. I’ve sold them; I’ve designed them; I’ve resold them; I’ve deployed, managed and used them; and I’ve analyzed the vendors who make them....
Much has been made at the Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA this week about Gartner Research Director, Svetlana Sicular‘s January 22, 2013 blog post that “Big Data is Falling into the Trough of Disillusionment.” Ms. Sicular has a very impressive resume. She served...
Back in January, I wrote a blog post on how we, as an industry will need to combat the Big Data skills shortage. One of the ways I suggested was to bring traditional capabilities, methods and approaches to Big Data (namely Hadoop). On February 25, 2013, Greenplum (a...
