Which brings me to Bruce Reading, VoltDB, and their take on the big data landscape.

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Bruce Reading, CEO of VoltDB, has an interesting and original take on the big data landscape.

FORBES: The Big Data Landscape Revisited

David Feinleib is the author of The Big Data Landscape and The Big Data 100.

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David Feinleib is the author of The Big Data Landscape , The Big Data 100 , and Big Data Trends .

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David Feinleib is the author of The Big Data Landscape.

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David Feinleib is the author of The Big Data Landscape and Big Data Trends, and the CEO of Speechpad, a leader in video transcription.

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In this new business landscape where many activities take on the characteristics long associated only with financial trading, Revolution Analytics supplies tools for statistical analysis, a critical component of big data sometimes neglected by observers of the big data landscape.

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In a wide-ranging talk with Kaskade last week, I got the impression that this could also be the planned exit for Infochimps and the main reason for putting Kaskade in charge of communicating the value of what Infochimps offers to Fortune 1000 enterprises and its unique position in the rapidly evolving big data landscape.

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This has become especially true in the emerging cloud computing landscape where APIs and Big Data have become some of the most valuable currencies.

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Adding to the complexities of the CEM landscape is the emergence of big data, as detailed in the recent McKinsey Report Big Data, The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity.

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