Category Archives: The Amazing Big Data Challenge

How Hadoop Revolutionised IT

05 Sat Mar 2016

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This is the story of how the amazing Hadoop ecosphere revolutionised IT. If you enjoy it, then consider joining The Big Data Contrarians.

Before the advent of Hadoop and its ecosphere, IT was a desperate wasteland of failed opportunities, archaic technology and broken promises.

In the dark Cambrian days of bits, mercury delay lines and ferrite cores, we knew nothing about digital. The age of big iron did little to change matters, and vendors made enormous profits selling systems that nobody could use and even fewer people could understand. Continue reading →

Big Data: And the Hype Played On

10 Thu Dec 2015

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MARTYN RICHARD JONES

Despite the best efforts of Hadoop evangelists, consulting houses, and IT infrastructure and service vendors, Big Data – hailed as the greatest thing since the dawn of greatest things – is failing, and dramatically so, to produce the necessarily corresponding quantity and quality of tangible, detailed and verifiable success stories.
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Big Data Predictions for 2015: What happened next?

07 Mon Dec 2015

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Towards the end of 2014 I gazed into the amazingly incredible crystal ball called Good Strategy, well known and admired by the readers of the Good Strat Blog, and made some predictions about Big Data for the year to come. The year of the goat. As I write now we are reaching the end of the wonderful year of 2015 – an anno quite-allrightus. So, equipped with good cheer, emboldened by the thoughts of passing the vacations with loved ones, friends and family, and heartened by my impending (albeit temporary) demobilization, I have decided to look back at my predictions of a year ago, to see how accurate or mistaken they ‘have become’, and to share those reflections with you. Continue reading →

The Amazing Big Data Challenge – 2015

11 Wed Nov 2015

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For those of you who are familiar with the world of Big Data you will also be aware of the vanguard data community known as The Big Data Contrarians (the most fabulous Big Data community online).

Launched today (23 September 2015), the Big Data Contrarian’s Challenge is destined to fast become the most prestigious, enviable and prized challenge on the entire global world-wide-web. Continue reading →