Tag: data analytics
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Hadoop World: Karmasphere and big data intelligence
One thing Hadoop isn’t great at right out of the box is data analytics, that’s where a company like Karmasphere comes in. Karmasphere provides business intelligence software that data analysts can use to use to mine the data that Hadoop sucks up. Last week at Hadoop World I grabbed some time with Karamsphere’s Chairman and…
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Does Hadoop compete with or complement the data warehouse?
Dell’s chief architect for big data, Aurelian Dumitru (aka. A.D.) presented a talk at OSCON the week before last with the heady title, “Hadoop – Enterprise Data Warehouse Data Flow Analysis and Optimization.” The session, which was well attended, explored the integration between Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse. AD posted a fairly detailed overview…
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Hadoop Summit: Talking to the CEO of MapR
I’m now back from vacation and am continuing with my series of videos from the Hadoop Summit. The one-day summit, which was very well attended, was held in Santa Clara the last week of June. One of the two Platinum sponsors was MapR technologies. MapR are particulaly interesting since they have taken a different approach…
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DCS systems, solutions and MDC steal show at Dell sales kick-off
Every year at the end of January Dell holds a giant kick-off meeting for our enterprise and public sales forces. The event, which has been held in Las Vegas the last two years, is a four-day happening consisting of keynotes, sessions and a full-scale expo where the sales team can touch and learn first-hand about…
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Dell Cloud Solutions up and running!
Back in March we announced Dell’s cloud solutions. Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced their general availability along with some examples of customers who are employing them. (Woohoo!) What’s the big idea The idea behind these offerings has been to leverage the experience we in the DCS group have gained over…
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Dell’s hyper scale cloud efforts — Everything you wanted to know in 3 minutes
Last week a couple of us went down to San Antonio to help represent the OpenStack project at Rackspace’s partner summit. While there I met up with the VAR Guy. Mr. Guy got me chatting about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group, where we’ve been and where we’re going. Below is the resulting video he…
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Talking to Aster Data’s brand new CEO
I flew to Chicago today to support our partner Aster Data’s Big Data Insight summit. This Chicago event is a part of series of roadshows that Aster is doing for customers in cities in the US and Europe. Today’s event was held in the trendy Hotel Sax and featured talks from analysts as well as…
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Aster’s Big Data Architecture
As I mentioned in my last entry, the week before last I headed out to the TDWI World Conference in San Diego. Besides talking about Dell’s new BI practice, I was there to represent our data analytics partners, Aster Data and Greenplum. Both vendors also had booths of their own and I was able to…
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Ubuntu, the Cloud and the Future — Neil Levine
After the cloud summit last week at OSCON, I sat down with Neil Levine of Canonical to see what was in store for Ubuntu cloud-wise (Canonical is a partner of ours in our cloud ISV program). Neil is the VP of Canonical’s corporate services division which handles their cloud and server products. Here’s what Neil…
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Big Data in the Windy City
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended the TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) world conference in Chicago. The show was a mix of courses and exhibit space. I went to learn about the BI/Data warehousing segment and scout in preparation for the next conference in August. Why BI? My interest in the space comes from the…