{"id":2615,"date":"2012-07-12T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2312775"},"modified":"2012-07-12T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:53:00","slug":"lets-fess-up-big-data-is-just-laziness-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/lets-fess-up-big-data-is-just-laziness-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s \u2018fess up\u2019, Big Data Is Just Laziness Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Data appears to have made more headlines in the last 12 to 18 months than almost any other technology subject, other than cloud computing and the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon.<br \/>\nNote to self: don\u2019t \u201cphenomena\u201d usually involve oceans parting and\/or lightning flashes and frogs falling from the sky? Whatever, let\u2019s move on.<br \/>\nBig Data then (or if you prefer the more informal lower-case version \u201cbig data\u201d) as we have come to know and love it is generally agreed to be the mass management of petabytes and exabytes of unstructured and semi-structured data sets. Too large, at this level to be comfortably slotted into a relational database for analysis, a new approach is called for.<br \/>\nThe question is, isn\u2019t big data just an excuse to be lazy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2312775\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Data appears to have made more headlines in the last 12 to 18 months than almost any other technology subject, other than cloud computing and the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon.<br \/>\nNote to self: don\u2019t \u201cphenomena\u201d usually involve oceans parting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}