Data Exchange — How to Amplify Value of Machine Data

The presentation that goes along with this post is available here In my last post I went over the value cycle of machine generated data. In this post, I want to follow up with a few ideas on how to further amplify value of that data by expanding its context beyond the walls of owning organization, in a construct we came to know as Data Exchange, and list a few innovation opportunities in each one of these areas. ...

2016-05-17 · 4 min · Mark Chmarny

HDFS has won, now de facto standard for centralized data storage

The “high-priests” of Big Data have spoken. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is now the de facto standard platform for data storage. You may have heard this “heresy” uttered before. But, for me, it wasn’t until the recent Strata conference that I began to really understand how prevalent this opinion actually is. ...

2016-04-03 · 6 min · Mark Chmarny

Gluttony of great open ML tools too hard for enterprise to use

Seems like every week we hear about yet another new open source Machine/Deep Learning library or Analytical Framework. Talking to people at Strata this week only confirmed for me that in the midst of what can only be described as virtual gluttony of open-source software, there is massive number of organizations who find it increasingly harder to implement these technologies. Even the task of identifying the right solution can overwhelm many, and result in a tailspin of endless use-case/feature comparison. ...

2015-09-21 · 2 min · Mark Chmarny