Big Data Decision Tree v4

This is a 4th version of the Big Data Decision Tree (Mind Map), which reflects the last changes in Microsoft products. As usual, a disclaimer: The process of solution selection for Big Data projects is very complex with a lot of factors. That’s why you may use this decision tree only as a first approximation … Continue reading Big Data Decision Tree v4

Modern Data Platform Map and Video

Last update: Dec 4, 2018 Modern Data Platform Map represents reference organizational layout of most important data pillars and services and corresponding groups of specialists in enterprises. In the following video I make a quick overview of Microsoft Data Platform. I will provide more details in subsequent posts and videos. Please post your questions, suggestions … Continue reading Modern Data Platform Map and Video

Webcast: Predictive Data Warehouse with Datameer

In the following webcast, we will talk to Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence in Datameer. We will learn about Hadoop ecosystem and PaaS options in Azure, difference of Data Lake and Data Warehouse, and added value of unstructured datastreams. We will discuss Hadoop learning curve for professionals with OLTP database and … Continue reading Webcast: Predictive Data Warehouse with Datameer

Webcast: Data warehouse migration to Azure with Hortonworks

Modern EDW should be able to manage both structured and unstructured data to realize full value of data. Security, consistency, and credibility of data is also very important. Data warehouse and big data solutions from Microsoft provide a trusted infrastructure that can handle all types of data, and scale from terabytes to petabytes, with real-time … Continue reading Webcast: Data warehouse migration to Azure with Hortonworks

Cortana Intelligence Suite: Big Data and Advanced Analytics

In this post we will discuss reference architecture for Big Data and Advanced Analytics using Cortana Intelligence Suite. The architecture can be relevant for organizations looking to fully manage big data and advanced analytics to transform all enterprise information into intelligent action. This will allow to take action ahead of your competitors by going beyond … Continue reading Cortana Intelligence Suite: Big Data and Advanced Analytics

Materials from Modern Data Warehouse Workshop

Today in MTC New York I provided workshop "Always On: Modern Data Warehouse". (Don't confuse with SQL Server AlwaysOn technology 😉 ). Here you can find presentation decks from this workshop: Modern Data Warehouse Architecture and Data Warehouse Technology Deck. Additional materials are available on the Microsoft Modern Data Warehouse site. Next data platform workshops in the MTC … Continue reading Materials from Modern Data Warehouse Workshop

Machine Learning @ 1 million predictions per second and more

Watch recordings of keynote and session previews of Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 on the latest Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Open Source techniques and technologies. Some take-aways from the keynote: Combination of in-memory technologies and in-database analytics with R at scale using SQL Server 2016 can make 1 million fraud predictions … Continue reading Machine Learning @ 1 million predictions per second and more

Big Data Solutions Decision Tree

Last update: May 30, 2017 New version: Big Data Decision Tree v4 (Jan 14th, 2019). Currently there are lot of existing solutions for Big Data storage and analysis. In this article, I will describe a generic decision tree to choose the right solution to achieve your goals. Disclaimer. Process of solution selection for Big Data projects is … Continue reading Big Data Solutions Decision Tree

Analysis of Big Data for Financial Services Institutions

In this blog post, we will look at analysis of stock prices and dividends by industry. This task is important to all participants of Stock Market including individual retail investors, institutional investors such as mutual funds, banks, insurance companies and hedge funds, and publicly traded corporations trading in their own shares. In this demo, team … Continue reading Analysis of Big Data for Financial Services Institutions

Aggregating Big Data with HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure

When we a talking about Big Data we may mean huge amounts of data (high Volume), data in any format (high Variety), and streaming data (appearing with high Velocity). Microsoft provides solutions for all of these “3V” tasks under unified monitoring, management and security, as well as unified data movement technologies. These workloads are supported correspondingly by … Continue reading Aggregating Big Data with HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure