Data Weekly Update: Real-time Metrics for Improved Business Operations and Agility

LATEST FROM THE GIGAOM RESEARCH TEAM Cloud BI competition heats up while Apache projects move up The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the open source world, have hit in the last week, and two hit just yesterday. Let’s start with Microsoft which, hot off its Windows 10 and […]   by Andrew Brust   January 28, 2015

FEATURED RESEARCH Real-time Metrics for Improved Business Operations and Agility The value of leveraging real-time operational metrics for data has proven itself, but finding the most useful approach towards applying it remains elusive for most businesses. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by David S. Linthicum   January 26, 2015   Outlook: Media and consumer tech in 2015 In 2015 expect the payoff for video ad tech to begin, sharp growth for OTT, and more legal battles for net neutrality. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Paul Sweeting   December 30, 2014   Outlook: Big data and analytics in 2015 The year 2015 will be one in which data and analytics technologies become more standardized, more broadly adopted, and more successful. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Andrew Brust   December 23, 2014

ANALYST BLOG POSTS The application-defined data center  by Gigaom Research Getting a head start on IoT at Structure Connect  by Ken Andersen Oracle’s cloud cred part 2: JSON support as “table” stakes  by George Gilbert Oracle’s database technology is getting cloud-friendly  by George Gilbert The benefits of in-memory databases  by Gigaom Research Structure Connect 2014 brings IoT visionaries to the mainstage this October  byGigaom Research More Hadoop for the enterprise and other data announcements  by Laura Stuart Spark and Tez out of phase  by Andrew Brust The pros, the disrupters, and the brands that use them  by Gigaom Research Hadoop’s new components go mainstream  by Andrew Brust