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Overview of the Big Data Framework Datameers Approach Consideration for Deployment
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Executive Summary
Datameer provides a complete analytics platform that supports users. Users see familiar interfaces and easy to manipulate interactive visualizations. They are supported with a back end that integrates all the enterprises data resources. The result: powerful Big Data solutions are provided to users in a way that lets them interact directly with data instead of being forced to work through development teams.
Background
Apache Hadoop is the leading open-source Big Data platform with an ecosystem of software to inexpensively store, process, and analyze almost any type of information from any source. Hadoop is renowned for its ability to work on commodity hardware. Hadoop enables fast, distributed analysis running in parallel on multiple servers in a cluster. Hadoop is reliable, managing and healing itself; scales linearly, working as well with one terabyte of data across three nodes as it does with petabytes of data across thousands; affordable, costing much less per terabyte to store and process data compared to traditional alternatives; and agile, allowing users to load raw data into the system and implement a schema on read approach which orders the data based on how its requested.
needs the help of additional programmers to build a query. Datameers approach has changed this by bringing powerful graphic user interface tools and easy to implement Big Data solutions directly to the user. Businesses and government agencies can rely on Datameer to tap into all data sources while presenting users unfamiliar with Hadoop programming paradigms with familiar tools. The analysts who can benefit the most from Big Data now have a tool purpose-built for their needs.
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Datameer can do all of this because it is a complete analytics platform that supports data integration, analysis, visualization, and security while focusing on the data analysts and scientists who turn raw information into intelligence. To bring data of all sorts together, Datameer provides wizard-based data integration with over 20 prebuilt connectors. These provide immediate access to all common data sources including relational databases such as Teradata, Greenplum, Vertica, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL, along with file formats such as CSV, Fixed Length, JSON, XML Mbox, Apache Log Files and Twitter. Datameer also has connectors for the Hadoop Distributed File System and the Hadoop database systems Hive and HBase.
As a result, Datameer provides powerful, agile analytics to support your organizations mission. Adding new data sources is quick and easy. By using Hadoop, Datameer has no limitations on storage and computation and does not require pre-defined data models so usage is never constrained by up-front system design. By focusing on the end-user, Datameer also eliminates Hadoops need for a users deep technical expertise. This lets any analyst, from any domain, across any site, and with any skillset to contribute by providing Big Data analytics in spreadsheets that can be accessed and updated instantly worldwide. Lastly, by simplifying the process and removing the IT bottleneck, Datameer removes limitations in time-totrigger, letting users develop and run Hadoop-based analytics jobs in minutes.
Datameer in Government
Government agencies have been leveraging the Big Data movement to directly support many government missions. Agencies have been using Big Data approaches in missions supporting Healthcare, Education, Environmental Research, Law Enforcement, Defense, Intelligence and numerous other activities. Early adopters in these communities have been leading the way in open source solutions and contributions back to the broader community. Solutions have been deployed throughout the federal space including on most publicly facing government web properties. The initial government foray into Big Data has in many ways mirrored the Big Data movement in industry. Still today, for most government missions to be served they must leverage teams of data scientists and engineers. Little to no user-centered Big Data approaches are in use in the government. We believe that is about to change. With Datameer available to every government knowledge worker by easy access through a browser, citizen service and mission support will be supported in new, highly efficient and effective ways.
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Concluding Thoughts
Since government agencies have already established visions and goals for big data approaches to serve their missions and since Datameer has a proven user-focused approach to leveraging all organizational data for analysis, we believe Datameer is poised for rapid growth in the federal sector. A logical step for most government agencies and systems integrators, architects and engineers that support them is to begin a proof of concept activity to see first hand how Datameer can work in your environment.
More Reading
For more federal Big Data technology and policy issues visit: CTOvision.com- A blog for enterprise technologists with a special focus on Big Data. CTOlabs.com - A reference for research and reporting on all IT issues. Carahsoft.com - Offering Big Data solutions for Government. GovernmentBigDataForum.com - Join the Government Big Data Forum. J.mp/ctonews - Sign up for the Government Big Data Newsletter. Datameer.com - Visit for more on how Datameer works and to arrange a proof of concept.
Alexander Olesker is a technology research analyst at Crucial Point LLC, focusing on disruptive technologies of interest to enterprise technologists. He writes at http://ctovision.com. Alex is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a degree in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. He researches and writes on developments in technology and government best practices for CTOvision.com and CTOlabs.com, and has written numerous whitepapers on these subjects. Alex has worked or interned in early childhood education, private intelligence, law enforcement, and academia, contributing to numerous publications on technology, international affairs, and security and has lectured at Georgetown and in the Netherlands. Alex is also the founder and primary contributor of an international security blog that has been quoted and featured by numerous pundits and the War Studies blog of Kings College, London. Alex is a fluent Russian speaker and proficient in French. Contact Alex at AOlesker@crucialpointllc.com
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