The rise of Big Datais challenging many long-held assumptions about the way data is organized, managed, ingested, and digested. However, for many organizations, Big Data is still a new frontier that they have only begun to explore. "Many organizations leave their data to pile up; they are aware of it as a resource but haven't analyzed it. They don't know what's useful and what's worthless." This fourteen-page section from the March edition of Database Trends and Applications is an invaluable resource that provides multiple perspectives on the chief challenges our readers face and the solutions that will enable organizations to begin tapping into the power of Big Data assets.
Table of Contents:
18. Attunity: Big Questions about Big Data
19. Composite: Data Virtualization Contributes to Outstanding Customer Care
20. MarkLogic: Big Data's Next Step: Applications
23. Calpont: Business Demands Scale, Speed and Simplicity for Big Data Analytics
24. CodeFutures: Scaling Big Data with Your Relational Database
25. Attivio: Beyond Hadoop: Completing the Big Data Picture with Unified Information Access
26. Progress DataDirect: ODBC: 20 Years of Innovation Driving Today's Big Data Enterprises
27. Couchbase: Big Data, NoSQL, and Mobile Sync - Three Peas, One Pod
28. Denodo: Data Virtualization for Big Data: How to Choose the Right Integration Model