2015 was quite the year for Big Data news, but as the year is passing away with new, exciting horizons coming, what actually did happen throughout 2015 in the Big Data world? Forbes contributor Bernard Marr has done a month-by-month breakdown of 12 news worthy events, “2015 was the first year that started with more […]
Why ‘Relational Databases Don’t Handle Big Data Well’
Chris Preimesberger recently opined for eWeek, “Enterprises are confronting the reality of big, fast, varied and changing data. It’s no longer about managing a small number of systems, but rather hundreds of systems and petabytes of data. Smart companies know that managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data, known as big data, is crucial […]
Data Stewards, Subject Matter Experts, and Data Managers: How They Fit Together
Malcolm Chisholm of Information Management recently wrote, “Much discussion exists about the role of a data steward and what it entails, and in my experience it is quite unclear in many enterprises. A large part of this lack of clarity seems to arise from confusion with two other roles – subject matter experts and data […]
Charting the Big Data Landscape
Matt Turck of VentureBeat recently wrote, “It’s been almost two years since I took a first stab at charting the booming big data ecosystem, and it’s been a period of incredible activity in the space. An updated chart was long overdue, and here it is (click here to see the whole thing.)… Entrepreneurs have flocked to the […]