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The Big Promise of 'Big Data'
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Frank Ohlhorst discusses how virtualization, commodity hardware, and 'Big Data' tools like Hadoop are enabling IT organizations to mine vast volumes of corporate and external data — a trend fueled increasingly by companies' desire to finally unlock critical insights from thus far largely untapped data stores. 'As costs fall and companies think of new ways to correlate data, Big Data analytics will become more commonplace, perhaps providing the growth mechanism for a small company to become a large one. Consider that Google, Yahoo, and Facebook were all once small companies that leveraged their data and understanding of the relationships in that data to grow significantly. It's no accident that many of the underpinnings of Big Data came from the methods these very businesses developed. But today, these methods are widely available through Hadoop and other tools for enterprises such as yours.'"
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It's actually his hip-hop name.
/. mods are gay and lame and since they are gay and lame AND live in their parents basements they also have no sense of humor.
repetition, mass coverage, & even more 'work' when history is 're-written' (as is now the case) etc... the truth however, only comes in one version & does not require an attached phony continual song&dance routine, which saves both time & space.
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http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bush+blair+rumsfeld+cheney+wolfowitz+obama&fr=ush-news&ygmasrchbtn=Web+Search
& one of our personal 'favorites';
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