Analyzing Logs and More - a Big Data Architecture

Big data and log files Splunk's great success in providing the tools for a sysadmin to delve into previously inaccessible log files has opened up the market for deeper analysis on data in log files. Volume and Variety in log files What is commonly referred to as “log files” is a set of machine or user logged text data, containing information about the behavior of an application or a device. These log files come in various formats and have the truth about how a product or software is being used. Traditional uses of log file mining has...

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6 Twitter Analytics Tools to Improve Your Marketing

Do you know if your Twitter marketing is working? Monitoring and analyzing your Twitter projects can be challenging. With the right metrics, you can improve and tailor your Twitter campaigns for better results. Luckily, third-party Twitter tools provide these metrics, but there are MANY tools to choose from out there. So here I’ll share some of the best Twitter analytics tools to help you improve your Twitter marketing. #1:...

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India aims for world's big data

Growth in India's data analytics market can hasten the adoption of big data technologies among local organizations which significantly lag their global counterparts, but the country faces challenges in terms of infrastructure and data collection. In its report "Big data: The next big thing", Indian IT services industry group Nasscom expects thecountry's big data industry to grow from US$200 million in 2012 to US$1 billion in 2015. The biggest challenge--and opportunity--is to satisfy the demand for data scientists. Avendus Capital,...

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Data analysis Brings Different Sales Promotion in Festivals

Christmas just passed, New Year is on the way again. One special offer for New Year comes after another. Nowadays, festivals seem to become the best excuse for all kinds of products promotion. Sales promotion in festivals also turns out to be the golden chance for emptying inventory and almost all brands are crowded on the road of promotion. But it’s getting harder and harder for suppliers to attract customers’ eye balls. In this case,...

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Messaging Challenges Over The WAN

Many global companies, especially in the front office of capital markets, have a strategic need to send real-time data from one location to another, often thousands of miles away, over a Wide Area Network (or WAN) connection. With foreign exchange, for example, global investment banks send dealable streaming prices, orders, trades, and reference data across the WAN. But WAN connections restrict the free flowing and ultra-fast delivery of real-time data that FX and other electronic trading applications – inside the firewall – have come...

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Will The Big Data Bubble Burst In 2013?

I am going to go out on a limb, put a prediction in writing, and hope that I’m not eating serious humble pie in 12 months!  I predict that in 2013, the big data bubble will begin to spring some serious leaks. The bubble may not fully burst in the next 12 months, but it will begin to deflate. However, I think this is actually a good thing and will help enable big data to have the impact it is capable of having in the future. This may sound counter-intuitive but if you stick with me, I hope you’ll see where I am coming from and agree...

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Introduction to Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse can be defined in many ways, but i defined as follows "Data warehouse is build from heterogeneous(different) relational databases and flat files which may act as a repository for business intelligence syste...

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