Loraine Lawson

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 Just ask anybody—2014 is going to be an even bigger year for Big Data. “In 2014, we will see Big Data funding only grow, and at least one significant IPO possibly from a player like Cloudera,” writes Concurrent CEO Gary Nakamura. Inhi Suh, IBM vice president […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 In my previous post, I shared the three business drivers for re-evaluating Ye Old Integration Strategy: Integration costs too much, it’s too complex, and you’re too slow at it, which annoys the business. But how are you supposed to fix those problems? In its recent Integration […]

Real business drivers exist for rethinking how you handle integration in 2014. You may think that sounds odd, but regular readers know you can either view integration as a one-off step for other projects — and pay a high cost for it — or you can take a more strategic view that focuses on being […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 It’s a well-established fact that Santa is an early technology adopter, especially when it comes to data and analytics. From SOA to MDM, Santa is on the cutting edge. He has to be. In the old days, there were plenty of elves and, frankly, a lot […]

If you’re planning a Hadoop project in 2014, here’s news you should take into account: Cloudera will offer its Hadoop enterprise solution on Amazon Web Services. Cloudera offers its own distribution of Hadoop. The company has long been aggressive about establishing partnerships with other vendors, such as Dell, Oracle, Syncsort, and enterprise-search company Apache Solr. […]

Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management Master data management (MDM) spent the year in the Trough of Disillusionment, which is sort of like that fourth day of school being cancelled due to snow: The harsh realities set in and you realize how much boredom and work it’s creating. But, the good […]

Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management What would you do with $40 million in funding? If you’re open-source data integration and management vendor Talend, you plan to innovate, grow your portfolio and, of course, push into the Big Data space. CBR Online reports that Bpifrance and Iris Capital, with existing investors […]

Big Data: Not Just for Big Business Anymore If one of your goals in the New Year is to move toward using Big Data, then it’s time to move beyond the theoretical discussion to the nitty-gritty of implementations. That doesn’t mean you should ignore your strategic goals, of course: It just means filling in the […]

Big Data talk has dominated 2013 to such an extent that sometimes it’s hard to imagine we’ll have much else to say about it in 2014. That’s unlikely to be the case, however, as other trends — mobile data, the Internet of Things, and hybrid cloud — will launch further Big Data adoption. Hadoop, especially, […]

Four Ways to Solve Cloud Integration, for Better or Worse It’s the CIO’s version of Groundhog Day: Business units want a solution, but do not want to wait on IT. So the division leaders bypass IT by funding the solution from their own budget. Eventually, it all comes out and IT has to solve the […]

Seven Ways to Make Big Data an Actionable Opportunity Most enterprises today are using Hadoop for “data preparation,” according to a Sand Hill Group survey of 135 IT and business professionals. What that means is that Hadoop is primarily a “poor person’s ETL,” according to Matt Asay, vice president of business development and corporate strategy […]

The data integration market is growing faster than security and virtualization, according to Margaret Breya, executive vice president and CMO, Informatica Business Solutions. Why? Not surprisingly, Breya credits Big Data, machine data and the Internet of Things. But it’s not just because organizations need to integrate these new forms of data into enterprise systems: A […]