Big Data Just Got Bigger
Well, it’s been quite a while since the health and life sciences (HLS) team issued a blog. Things have been quite busy as our business continues to grow at unprecedented rates, far beyond the market. While we’ve been busy driving [...]
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Big Data and Many Things Trying to Get Along
The n-body problem is the problem of predicting the motion of a group of celestial objects that interact with each other gravitationally. The result of the n-body problem, beyond 3 interacting bodies of gravity on each other, becomes chaos and [...]
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Hitachi Machine Data in Action: Open Pit Data Mining
Sara Gardner, Senior Director SW Product Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems in conversation with Martin Politick Director, Research and Development at Wenco International Mining Systems The Internet of Things is the future of big data! Millions of machines all connected to [...]
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Big Data – It’s not the size of your source but the size of the insight that really matters
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve heard some great quotes from acquaintances and colleagues. Ron Lee from my team recently attended a CIO breakfast in Asia Pacific (APAC) where he heard the following from a CIO: “I’m not worried [...]
Video Surveillance for the Next Generation
When I am not travelling, I like to unwind before I go to sleep by watching recordings of real life TV mysteries like 48 Hour Mystery. The other night it was about a man who was hacked to death and [...]
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Follow-up to Big Data - First Steps
Awhile back I blogged about the value of big data and how it was being implemented in Liberia to improve the nutrition of nursing mothers and their new born and young children. It was interesting to read about a recent [...]
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Hitachi’s Integrated Vision Around Big Data
Extending my series on big data dimensions around volume, velocity, variety and value as defined by IDC and Gartner, this post is about value. How do we get value out of big data. In a previous post I referenced a [...]
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The Value of Big Data – First Steps
There are many examples of how big data brings value to companies large and small. Collecting data from new sources and correlating the data to generate information that helps grow the business and provide a competitive edge. I will be [...]
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HCP supports Big Data at PB Scale
Last month Hitachi announced enhancements to HCP, which is a major new release of our Hitachi Content Platform. There were some major enhancements which were covered by Michael Hay in HCP and HDI, A Monster Release and by Ken Wood [...]
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Big Data Variety
In past posts we talked about Big Data Volume and Velocity requirements and how they could be addressed with Hitachi Data Systems block, file and content storage. Today we will be looking at big data variety. The reason that big [...]
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99 Notre Dame, San Jose
This morning I accompanied a young person to the Superior Court in San Jose. This Court is located at 99 Notre Dame in San Jose. Once we went through the metal detectors we joined a long line of people in [...]
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Big Data Volume Requirements
Referring back to my last post, I am continuing my series on big data where we are looking at the dimensions of big data: volume, velocity, variety and value, and what we need to do to address them. The first [...]
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HCP Announcement with an Archiving Angle
Last week’s announcement dovetails perfectly with my current series on data archiving, although the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) team may not appreciate my angle based on all their accomplishments with HCP product that go above and beyond just archiving. Be that [...]
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HCP and HDI, A Monster Release
Firstly, it has been quite a while since I’ve last posted. A lot has happened between the beginning of the year and today. In fact it has been so action packed, the past 100 days seem more like 365. While [...]
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How many ways are we connected? Let me count the ways.
Last month after I had visited Asia, I blogged about how information is being made available to a whole new population of users who were not connected to the e-life of the internet but are now connected to the m-life [...]
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But Which Big Data Again?
As I have mentioned before, there is more to the Big Data story than Data Warehousing. Let me conclude first and back my way into the “why”. I would say that the next tool in the arsenal of any Big [...]
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Can you live without email?
An ABC news blog caught my eye recently. It was entitled Tech Firm implements employee “Zero Email” policy. It quotes Thierry Breton, the CEO of ATOS, a Global French Information Technology company, who says that only 10% of the 200 [...]
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A Brief Visit to SC11
Initially, I wasn’t planning to attend SC11, especially since this week I had several other meetings to participate in. However, as is common in this industry, I ended up heading to Seattle to meet with several people and companies at [...]
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Data is Our Middle Name
…and it is our sincere desire to Inspire Your Next Insight. The reveal of our infrastructure, content and information clouds exposes a framework to help our customers and the market get to that next “ah ha” moment. To paraphrase and [...]
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BlueArc: A Bountiful Garden of BIG Data
These are exciting times we live in, indeed! Steve Jobs has officially resigned his post. HP has opened their kimono to enterprise focused strategy leaving behind WebOS and the PC business. And today we celebrate combining the innovative talent of [...]
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