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08.29.2008 There's been a lot of buzz lately about Google's MapReduce framework for speeding up the processing of large datasets. It makes you wonder, did Google just dream this up in last couple years while all of the database vendors were sleeping? Or, paraphrasing Isaac Newton, were they standing on the shoulders of giants? The answer is, both. Read more from Neil Raden >> Why MapReduce Matters to SQL Data Warehousing 08.28.2008
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08.27.2008 Back from sunny San Diego, place of TDWI's annual world conference. I kicked off my week with a birds-of-a-feather networking event. The most popular table? The business-IT partnership, which also happens to be one of the top barriers/enablers to BI success. The different perspectives — and just how polar opposites they could be — bordered on amusing. Read more from Cindi Howson >> Nedstat Bows 'Live Segmentation' 08.26.2008
Last week, European Web analytics vendor Nedstat announced a new feature called "Live Segmentation," which enables you to develop customized behavioral analysis across unaggregated Web data. This missing capability was a downside for an offering that competes in Europe with the likes of Omniture, and WebTrends — two vendors already providing a data-warehouse-like features that enable deeper and more customizable analysis. Read more from Phil Kemelor >>
08.25.2008 Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Research, says that Yahoo "will be launching a new generation of search in two to three months... Search is going to move in a completely new direction." The initiative, per a Financial Express interview, will build on Yahoo's BOSS (build your own search software) platform, which implements a "self-service Web services model for developers and start-ups." Read more from Seth Grimes >>
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