Last week at Hadoop World we saw the big push of big data going mainstream.
First, an NEC Laboratories researcher (in Princeton, NJ) named Dayou Qian shared how he managed to push 101.7 terabits of data per second along 103 miles of fiber.
And we'll push a lot of data through the API.
While it may take time to push this type of data collection and analysis forward, these companies are expected on the market this year, and there is a great amount of excitement around them. .
We all think of our browsers as being relatively passive applications, but the truth is they push huge amounts of data in and out of RAM, run constant searches against your temp folders and cookies, and all kinds of other things that you don't really notice.
"The antennas there need to be massive with a lot of gain, so they can receive fine information and push a lot of data," Lander said.
After discussing the importance of design over an Internet portal, a mobile per user per device metrics, the fragmentation of the different device protocols--Nokia, Blackberry, Apple's iOS, and Google's open source Android--he sees collaboration as another layer to get into as far as the push and pull of data around the world.
From the beginning, the push-based dissemination of data has played a fundamental role in the design of systems and its applications.
ISPs have lobbied in the opposite direction because of the enormous expense associated with pushing high volumes of data to consumers.
Before Weather, he helped lead Digitas to a $1.3 billion acquisition by Publicis in 2006, then pushed the limits of data's insights for media companies at Akamai.
