Big data hype manufactured by analysts and media, says SAS CEO Jim Goodnight

Danny Palmer
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'The term big data is being used today because computer analysts and journalists got tired of writing about cloud computing,' says SAS Institute's Jim Goodnight

Big data is mostly a buzzword created by analysts and the press with the most literal examples of big data being restricted to machine data, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has claimed. Goodnight made the...

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