Data Weekly Update: The Benefits and Challenges of Personal Analytics

This Week In Data Wednesday, March 04

LATEST FROM THE GIGAOM RESEARCH TEAM Apache Big Data releases continue unabated Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big Data-related projects rolled out of the Apache Software Foundation. I think it’s important to take stock of these releases, less for the sake of knowing […]   by Andrew Brust   March 4, 2015

FEATURED RESEARCH The Benefits and Challenges of Personal Analytics Blending data, content, and context for individual business analytics allows enterprise IT to fully align decisions with corporate strategy. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by David Loshin   February 19, 2015   Extending Hadoop Towards the Data Lake Early adopters of the data lake are integrating Hadoop into current workflows and addressing challenges around the cleanliness, validity, and protection of their data. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Paul Miller   February 19, 2015   Handling Omnistructured Data with a Unified Platform Organizations must increasingly integrate and process data of all shapes and sizes, so handling structured data alone is no longer enough. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by George Anadiotis   February 12, 2015

ANALYST BLOG POSTS Jump-Starting Marketing Tech Adoption by Bundling data  by David Card IBM InterConnect Day 1 Impressions  by Tim Crawford How a $125 billion dollar market is evolving  by Ken Andersen 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