Brett Sheppard, @zettaforce, is executive director at Zettaforce and a former senior analyst at Gartner. His work focuses on enabling advanced analytics and collaboration for enterprises and public sector organizations.
T-Mobile's architecture helps it put data to use across the business.
by Brett Sheppard
| @zettaforce
| 10 August 2011
Mobile service provider T-Mobile uses a federated architecture and virtual data zones to empower innovations in regional marketing, churn management and customer care.
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Best practices for evaluating Hadoop and setting up an initial cluster (updated March 2012)
by Brett Sheppard
| @zettaforce
| 27 June 2011
Focusing on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce, this in-depth piece — updated March 2012 — offers tips for organizations that are looking to evaluate Hadoop and deploy an initial cluster.
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Analysis of complete data sets and integration of new tools are leading to revenue growth and new business models.
by Brett Sheppard
| @zettaforce
| 31 March 2011
To benefit from advanced analytics and study complete huge data sets, many enterprise architectures are evolving into coexistence environments that combine legacy and new systems.
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