Tag Archives: Architecture
Installing Spark 0.6.1 Standalone on OSX Mountain Lion (10.8)
Spark is an in-memory open source cluster computing system allowing for fast iterative and interactive analytics. Spark utilizes Scala – a type-safe objected oriented language with functional properties that is … Continue reading
Big Data, BI, and Compliance in Healthcare
If you’re interested in Big Data, BI, and Compliance in Healthcare; check out Ayad Shammout (@aashammout) and my 24 Hours of PASS (Spring 2013) session Ensuring Compliance of Patient Data … Continue reading
Yahoo! 24TB SSAS Big Data Case Study + Slides
In my post from last year, I had asked the rhetorical question What’s so BIG about “Big Data”. I had the honor of announcing the largest known Analysis Services cube … Continue reading
SQL BI Professionals – Let your voice be heard!
As recently announced by T.K. Anand on the Analysis Services and PowerPivot, the SQL BI development team are looking for your thoughts and opinions on the tools and capabilities for … Continue reading
SQLPASS: Hadoop and BI are better together–we’ll show you how!
This is going to be yet another exciting SQLPASS Summit! Lots of great sessions, focus groups, and craziness – definitely one of the funner times of the job! Over the … Continue reading
Enterprise Reporting Services Jump Start Guide
While there is a lot of deserved and great interest with Power View, almost forgotten is the IT workhorse SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services for your corporate / managed reporting … Continue reading
What are thou Big Data? Asked the SQLBI Arbiter
Over the last few days, I’ve been pinged the question: What is Big Data? Go figure, I actually have an answer of sorts – from a SQL BI perspective (since … Continue reading
How Klout changed the landscape of social media with Hadoop and BI Slides Updated
One of the key themes that Dave Mariani (@dmarini) and I were talking about during this year’s Hadoop Summit was that: Hadoop and BI are better together as I have … Continue reading
Hadoop Summit and all hail screen sharing!
Presenting for the first time at Hadoop Summit was a serious thrill and this was just Day 1! Just as a refresher, Dave Mariani (@dmarini) from Klout and I got … Continue reading
A Primer on Hadoop (from the Microsoft SQL Community perspective)
For a quick primer on Hadoop (from the perspective of the Microsoft SQL Community), as well as Microsoft Hadoop on Azure and Windows, check out the SlideShare.NET presentation below. Above … Continue reading
BI and Big Data–the best of both worlds!
As part of the excitement of the Strata Conference this week, Microsoft has been talking about Big Data and Hadoop. It started off with Dave Campbell’s question: Do we have … Continue reading
“Hadoop: A movement, not just a technology”
Note, the title of this post (and for that matter, most of this post) is a direct quote from Kovas Boguta’s post: Hadoop & Startups: Where Open Source Meets Business … Continue reading
At a Crossroads … from SSAS to BigData!
“There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief / There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief” – Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along the … Continue reading
PowerPivot Technical Diagram: PowerPivot Security Architecture
Just in case you didn’t already know, we just uploaded the PowerPivot Security Architecture technical diagram on to sqlcat.com / MSDN. To get access to the PDF, XPS, and/or VSD … Continue reading
