"Traditional vendors to fare poorly with big data", not so for SAS...

David Linthicum wrote a blog post entitled ”3 winners, 3 losers in the move to big data”  on InfoWorld and notes that traditional vendors “did not see this coming” (big data that is). Since David made some interesting points, some of which I agree with, some I disagree, I felt it worthwhile [...]

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Hadoop's Potential to Rewrite Data Management

Well, it’s certainly a provocative title, and hopefully it will be a thought provoking conversation. I am participating in a panel discussion along with Philip Russom of TDWI, David Menninger of EMC, and James Markarian of Informatica. The discussion will be hosted by DM Radio hosts Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson. The interview occurs [...]

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SAS: Big play for Hadoop

Hadoop – it’s not just hype! The community has shown tremendous interest in our plans for Hadoop – what will be supported, when it will be available, and so on. We’ve been blogging about big data and provided early plans for Hadoop, including SAS/ACCESS support for Hadoop. Well, it’s official: [...]

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Hurwitz on SAS & Big Data: Experience Matters

Mike Ames and I recently had an opportunity to talk to Fern Halper and Judith Herwitz from Hurwitz & Associates as they are doing a 4 part blog series on vendor views on big data and big data analytics. You can view Fern’s blog post about the SAS perspective here. Here [...]

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Top 10 IT considerations for analytics in 2012

It’s hard to believe, but now that 2011 is almost over it’s time to look ahead. The technology pundits are starting to publish their 2012 predictions, and it’s not surprising to see topics like analytics, cloud, big data, mobile, social networking, virtualization, open source on these lists. Instead of creating [...]

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Big Hype requires solid Big Data tenets

Big hype about big data has played a significant role in driving awareness about the value of analytics. SAS welcomes the interest in big data, since it highlights our ability to work with huge volumes of complex and diverse data. Since this is such a critical topic, we have formulated [...]

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Big Data why now?

Ask any data warehouse architect what is driving the “big data” craze and he’ll tell you it has to do with the cost of storage and the advancements in distributed computing and most likely will mention Hadoop. Most enterprise data warehouses are constrained by cost and scalability of relational databases. [...]

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Hadoop usage scenarios: How will you leverage it?

By now we have all heard how Yahoo uses Hadoop to optimize the user experience by ad and content targeting. We know that Hadoop is well suited for analysis or processing that can be distributed in a parallel fashion on multiple nodes. We know it’s great for managing big data. [...]

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Big data defined: It's more than Hadoop

Volume, Variety, Velocity – how many times have you heard that lately? The “3 V’s” are commonly used to describe big data by various vendors and analysts. Forrester extends this by introducing “Variability” as a 4th V – this addresses the fact that you need to design for agility due [...]

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