Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Makes Hadoop Quick and Easy with BigInsight

IBM Makes Hadoop Quick and Easy with BigInsight The article titled InfoSphere BigInsights on IBM promotes the use of Apache Hadoop, an open source software framework, with IBM’s BigInsight. Not only is the product free to download, but IBM offers BigInsight to simplify Hadoop for users. To begin, visit the Quick Start Edition page, with …

Marcus Aurelius: IBM Tries Something New – The Gist Mill

Worth a look. The Gist Mill – Strategic Social Media Analysis The ability to rapidly ingest, identify, monitor and exploit relationships, trends and collective thought evolving out of Internet-based social networks will be the most critical analytic capability requirement of the next decade.  The fact that these networks exist in plain sight, are vastly dense, …

Jim Spoher: IBM’s Version of M4IS2 Centered on Universities

Dr. Jim Spoher (born c. 1956) is a computer scientist leading the development of a new science of service systems, often known as Service Science, Management and Engineering.  He has been the Director of IBM Global University Programs since 2009. Between 2003 and 2009, he was the Director of Almaden Services Research with IBM at …