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Big data is, admittedly, an overhyped buzzword used by software and hardware companies to boost their sales. Behind the hype, however, there is a real and extremely important technology trend with impressive business potential. Although big data is often associated with social media, we will show that it is about much more than that. Before we venture into definitions, however, let’s have a look at some facts about big data.
Back in 2001, Doug Laney from Meta Group (an IT research company acquired by Gartner in 2005) wrote
a research paper in which he stated that e-commerce had exploded data management along three dimensions: volumes, velocity, and variety. These are called the three Vs of big data and, as you would expect, a number of vendors have added more Vs to their own definitions.
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About the Authors
Peter Zadrozny is a veteran of the software industry. He is the Founder and Chief Technology Oicer of Opallios, a company focused on harnessing the power of
big data and cloud technologies while providing value to its customers through outsourced product development. Peter is also a lecturer on big data topics at
San José State University. He has held various executive and technical roles in many countries around the world with startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Highlights of his career include starting the operations of WebLogic in Europe and Sun Microsystems in México. He is an accomplished author with various successful books on Java Enterprise Edition and performance engineering, and was an original contributor to he Grinder, a popular open source project.
Raghu Kodali is vice president of Product Management & Strategy at Solix Technologies, where he is responsible for product vision, management, strategy, user design, and interaction. His work includes the next-generation data optimization platform, industry-leading data discovery platform, enterprise data management-as-a-service, application development using Big Data platforms and cloud. Before Solix he was with Oracle for 12 years, holding senior management positions responsible for Product Management & Strategy for Oracle Fusion Middleware products. In addition, Raghu was Oracle’s SOA Evangelist leading next-generation Java EE initiatives. Raghu authored a leading technical reference on Java computing, “Beginning EJB 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional” (Apress, 2006), and has published numerous articles on enterprise technologies. He also was a contributing author to “Oracle Information Integration, Migration and Consolidation” (PACKT Publishing, 2011).
Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
