uresh Shankar is the Founder Director at Crayon Data. Prior to founding Crayon Data he held various positions at IBM, RedPill Solutions, ANN AMRO Bank, Young & Rubicon and JWT Fulcrum. He was the CEO at RedPill which was sold to IBM in 2009. Srikant Sastri is...
Month: July 2013
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Big Data, Analytics And The Future Of Marketing And Sales
Big Data is the biggest game-changing opportunity for marketing and sales since the Internet went mainstream almost 20 years ago. That statement often prompts vigorous head nodding from executives, but is quickly followed by head scratching. “How can we make this...
Big pharma mobilising patients in battle over drugs trials data
The pharmaceutical industry has "mobilised" an army of patient groups to lobby against plans to force companies to publish secret documents on drugs trials. Drugs companies publish only a fraction of their results and keep much of the information to themselves, but...
The Metaphysics of Big Data: Problem of Induction
How do we, human beings, acquire knowledge? Think for a sec! And don't tell me that it is from text books, TV, internet or newspapers etc!!! Scholars say that there are mainly (debatably) five valid ways (Perception, Inference, Comparison, Verbal Testimony and...
Amplifying security intelligence with big data
Leading security intelligence solutions today rely upon a set of structured and semi-structured data sources, including logs, network traffic and others, to provide the Security Operations Center with an on-going real-time view of their organization’s security...
Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies
Most discussions on organizing Big Data center on repository frameworks – specifically Hadoop clusters and MapReduce frameworks. This technology-focused view often overlooks the most important question, “What are you planning to do with the data you’re collecting?”...
Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies
Most discussions on organizing Big Data center on repository frameworks – specifically Hadoop clusters and MapReduce frameworks. This technology-focused view often overlooks the most important question, “What are you planning to do with the data you’re collecting?”...
Are we headed for a platform change for Big Data?
Organizations are just digging in with big data, and already portents of change are forming. This time, it appears to be some re-thinking by HPC (high performance computing) vendors about which hardware delivers the best processing for big data payloads that need to...
Crayon Data Founder, Suresh Shankar analyses Big Data over the last 13 years
With ever increasing volumes of data, companies have started stressing a lot on how to make sense accurately from this and hence the filed of Big Data has emerged. From retail to telco and pharma to digital marketing, data and analytics are becoming core to...
Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is the de facto standard for processing big data. Almost all big software vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, or even Microsoft use it....
Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is the de facto standard for processing big data. Almost all big software vendors such as IBM, Oracle, SAP, or even Microsoft use it....
Thamzi and Big Data
Have you ever read an autobiography and felt that the bugger is almost living your dream? One such book I read was "Don't ask any old bloke for directions" by Palden Gyatso Tenzing. Some 200 odd pages full of what I have always dreamt of doing. This book is by an IAS...
Installation of HBase in the cluster
HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google 'Bigtable’. This tutorial will describe how to setup and run Hbase cluster, with not too much explanation about hbase. There are a number of articles where the Hbase are...
Big Data Start-up Crayon Data Shares Plans for India Market
The big data-analytics start-up, Crayon Data, has announced its plans for India market. Crayon already has a few customers in the US and UK markets, and its founder and CEO, Suresh V Shankar is confident that they can replicate the success in other emerging markets in...
Big Data and the Paradox of Choice
"Autonomy and freedom of choice are critical to our well-being, and choice is critical to freedom and autonomy. Nonetheless, though modern Americans have more choice than any group of people ever has before, and thus, presumably, more freedom and autonomy, we don't...