Introducing Bill Jacobs

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Hello to my high-tech contacts, Twitter followers, and colleagues in the Big Data world. For 18 months, I’ve avoided the blogosphere. But alas, one of the New Year’s resolutions I intend to keep will change that: I’ll be blogging here about Greenplum products, and our customers’ uses of Big Data analytics in their businesses and agencies.

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Greenplum Acquires MoreVRP

We are excited to announce that EMC has acquired More IT Resources Ltd., a privately held company based in Israel, and will integrate it immediately into Greenplum. More’s flagship product, MoreVRP, brings to Greenplum a comprehensive database control and monitoring platform.

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“More Hands Than Our Own”: Greenplum’s Logan Lee on Opening Chorus

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Data science is a team sport that thrives upon collaboration, quick iteration, and a healthy amount of collegial competitiveness. These characteristics also drive development in the open source software community. So it’s fitting that Greenplum announced the release of Chorus, its social platform for collaboration on predictive analytics projects, as an open source project last week at the Strata Conference in New York City.

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Greenplum’s Gavin Sherry on Remaining Agile Within the Enterprise

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One of the greatest challenges for an enterprise is iterating while delivering quality products as teams grow in size and projects become increasingly complex. Unchecked, a nimble startup can become burdened with well-intentioned procedures and management models that nevertheless slow the pace of innovation.

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Alpine Data Labs Brings Predictive Analytics to Where Data Lives

For all the promise of predictive analytics, realizing that potential can be elusive. Moving data is a cumbersome process, and modeling is typically done with complex, standalone applications, forcing those tasked with developing predictive models to work with limited data at the edges of the business.

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Pivotal Labs Empowers Data-Driven Enterprises to Become Agile and Collaborative

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Data is Big, the predictive enterprise is the way of the future, and data scientists are in high demand: you can’t glance at technology news sites in 2012 without being aware of these developments. But there’s another challenge facing organizations as they deal with the influx of data, one which receives less attention: a lack of the custom applications, skills, and development methodologies necessary to tap into its value.

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The Eclectic Mind of the Data Scientist: An Interview With Greenplum’s Noah Zimmerman

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Data scientists come from various research backgrounds, bringing a wide array of interests to bear upon their work. Noah Zimmerman, Senior Data Scientist at Greenplum, embodies this eclecticism. Boasting a background in immunology and biomedical informatics, Zimmerman is also fascinated with human-computer interaction and design for collaboration.

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