Pivotal continues to churn out new, important solutions that are helping companies make better use of big data. This week, we have 2 major announcements that will help Hadoop distributions deal with real-time transactional data more effectively and to provision any kind of big data sets, including data from Hadoop, MPP, flat files or a legacy database. The new solutions […]
Peter Drucker and the Big Data RevolutionRick WartzmanIn his latest column for Forbes online, Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman writes about the growing ability of businesses to harness Big Data.Although ever more data is being generated by a host of new technologies, Wartzman writes, “this surfeit of information is not simply piling up, like grain in a silo. It is being carefully sifted […]
Print PDFWith 4.602 hotels across the globe and 675.982 hotel rooms, the InterContinental Hotel Group is collecting massive amounts of data across its seven brands. Since a few years, IHG has embraced the use of advanced analytics. They moved from a structured dataset with about 50 variables in it to a big data solution analysing both unstructured and structured data […]
