As the PC got data from the Nasdaq wire splice, its algorithms analyzed the market and made quick trading decisions, firing these trades back through a tangle of wires that wound their way into the innards of the Nasdaq terminal.

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Enterprises with data and information that are presently managed within an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will leverage data integration technologies, such as those offered by large established vendors like Informatica, newly recognized vendors like Hadapt or emerging start-ups like Splice Machine, with whom I spoke this morning, and begin a migration towards Big Data, or Big-Data-like techniques to gain insight, and ultimately business value and innovation from data and information.

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