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Here is a refresher from the last post:

“I went on a job board and searched for the number of job postings that listed Big Data tools as part of the requirements.”

I created a comprehensive list for Big Data skills in  response to the…

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According to MarketsandMarkets the global Big Data market will reach $46.34 billion by 2018. I wanted to check the local DC Metropolitan job market to verify the hype related to the shortage of professionals with Big Data skills. I went on a job board and searched for the number of…

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I just created a cloud at home. Suppose I start on a project aiming to create a computer game. I purchase 4 servers and some software. After a couple of weeks I realize that in order to complete the project I'll need 6 more servers, but I have run out of money. I decide to write an…

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Google recently replaced its AdWords MySql Database with a Database that they built in-house namely F1 Database. AdWords serves thousand of users, " which all share a database over 100TB serving up hundreds of thousands of requests per second, and runs SQL queries that scan…

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Although Mainframe Hierarchical Databases are very much alive today, The Relational Databases (RDBMS) (SQL) have dominated the Database market, and they have done a lot of good. The reason the money…

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It was not easy to select a few out of many Open Source projects. My objective was to choose the ones that fit Big Data’s needs most. What has changed in the world of Open Source is that the big players have become stakeholders; IBM’s alliance with Cloud Foundry, Microsoft providing a…

I know that not everyone will agree with my definition of Business Intelligence, but my objective is to simplify things; there is enough confusion out there. Besides, who is the authority on a terminology that its traditional frame of reference is…

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I am no expert in market analysis of any kind, but my personal Big Data Analytics embedded in my small brains which I inherited from my cave-dwelling ancestors tells me that the industry is anticipating huge profits from…

Fari Payandeh

Aug 12, 2013

May I say at the outset that I know the phrase “Data Suction Appliance” sounds awkward at its best and downright awful at its worst. Honestly, I don’t feel that bad! These are some of the…

These are not ordinary times for CIO's. The news about Netflix's Big Data success, and Big Data's involvement in predicting the last election results might have created a buzz among the IT workers, but it was the NSA's surveillance news that established a beachhead for Big Data in the public arena. Business…