Category Archives: Big Data Analytics

The Data Index, March 2021

Posted on April 5, 2021 by GilPress

Data is eating the world and there are numerous indicators of its ubiquitous presence in our lives. Read more

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Data is Eating the World

Posted on December 30, 2020 by GilPress

From fueling the recent success of “artificial intelligence” (AI) and the rise of “digital transformation” to its accelerated growth due to Covid-19 to new approaches to its “monetization” to how it makes businesses and consumers both anxious and animated, data dominates our deeds, debates, and dreams. Continue reading →

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A New Player in the Cloud Data Warehouse Market

Posted on December 15, 2020 by GilPress

Firebolt has raised $37 million to further develop and sell a new cloud data warehouse experience. Continue reading →

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Will a Worldwide Healthcare Data Platform Help Fight Future Pandemics?

Posted on June 18, 2020 by GilPress

To respond effectively to a global pandemic, governments need to have access to very large volumes of healthcare data, collected over a long period of time with patient privacy protected, and sourced from many locations and populations around the world. … Continue reading →

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Solving Coronavirus with Computer Power and Relevant Data

Posted on April 15, 2020 by GilPress

Can human ingenuity assisted by new and emerging technologies overpower Covid-19? Will faster processing of more—and more relevant—data, analyzed with the right models, yield better insights into mitigating the spread of future pandemics, designing effective treatments, and developing successful vaccines? … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: Betting on Data Eating the World

Posted on January 22, 2020 by GilPress

[July 23, 2109] Data is eating the world. All businesses, non-profits, and governments around the world are now in full digital transformation mode, figuring out what data can do to the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of their … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: Big Data AI

Posted on January 20, 2020 by GilPress

[July 1, 2019] In December 2014, I asked whether we were at the beginning of “the end of the Hadoop bubble.” I kept updating my Hadoop bubble watch (here and here) through the much-hyped IPOs of Hortonworks and Cloudera. The question was whether … Continue reading →

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Data Will Continue Eating the World in the 2020s

Posted on January 7, 2020 by GilPress

It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. But one fairly safe prediction is that data will continue eating the world in 2020 and the coming decade. The most important tech trend since the 1990s will no doubt accentuate its presence in our … Continue reading →

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Best of 2019: Data is Eating the World

Posted on January 6, 2020 by GilPress

[June 30, 2019] Data is eating the world. It has been the most important tech trend since the 1990s. But to paraphrase Robert Solow, “You can see data everywhere but in the Internet statistics.” The most astute and influential observers … Continue reading →

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How to Compete with Amazon

Posted on November 13, 2019 by GilPress

Data is eating the world and Amazon got it very early on. Twenty years ago, Jeff Bezos wrote in his letter to the shareholders of his $1.64 billion company: “We are doubly-blessed. We have a market-size unconstrained opportunity in an area where … Continue reading →

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