In my previous InFocus blog, I talked about attending the EMC Education Services Data Scientist class titled  “Data Science and Big Data Analytics.”  The course provided a hands-on practitioner’s approach to the techniques and tools required for big data analytics.  My primary interest in the course was to see if it was really possible for

When you look at the BI/DW landscape, a tremendous amount has changed in a relatively short period of time.  As discussed in previous postings, traditional tools and methods are struggling to keep pace with the needs of big data, and they have become somewhat of a liability for the future.  How much is the landscape

On November 9 I facilitated a Big Data Analytics Roundtable as part of a series that EMC Consulting is holding over the next few months. The goal is to help our clients better understand both the opportunities and challenges with respect to big data and advanced analytics. We had about 20 EMC customers participate in

The IT industry is going through perhaps its biggest adjustment in decades, because of the abundance of technology being employed and deployed to help us manage in this digital age. There isn’t a day that goes by where you don’t see a new app or utility designed to make our everyday lives easier and more

In August I attended the NoSQL Conference in San Jose, California. This conference was about products and solutions that, primarily, don’t use relational databases.  The recent rise of interest comes from the Big Data space and includes areas that aren’t necessarily too big for relational databases, but that just don’t lend themselves to relational database