BIG DATA
GOVERNMENT: Why Big Data Needs a Soul. “Data is a story with soul,” said Dr. Kristen Honey, a policy advisor in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Honey, who appeared with a number of other experts on an April 22 AFFIRM panel on taming the explosion of government data, was quoting author and storyteller Brene Brown. But she and other panelists said much the same thing, stressing that the most effective tool for dealing with the oceans of data generated by federal agencies isn’t technological, but human. Read more
[FCW.COM]
ENTERPRISE: Flexing the Muscles of Big Data. When the term ‘big data’ gets mentioned, what springs to mind? Massive databases? Hadoop clusters? Business analytics engines? How about data aggregation systems, filters, metadata creation systems, indexers, results renderers and reporting systems? All of these should be part of a big data strategy and require different resources at different times. Read the rest
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MICROSOFT: Integrating Big Data and SQL Server 2016. Many Big Data projects are implemented using systems like Microsoft’s HDInsight or Hadoop. That said, these Big Data systems usually need to be integrated with existing data from relational databases or data warehouses. That’s where SQL Server 2016’s PolyBase feature comes into play. Find out more
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FORRESTER: Start One Of These Two Big Data Businesses. Big data has gotten a lot of attention from the media and investors, but the segment is broad and complicated. If someone is interested in starting a big data business, where should they focus their efforts? Forrester Research principal analyst Mike Gualtieri offered CRNtv two tips on what’s growing in the big data market today. Read more
[CRN.COM]
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