Find the right big data solution for your business or organization Big data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quickly outpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If you need to develop or manage big data solutions, you'll appreciate how these four experts define, explain, and guide you through this new and often confusing concept. You'll learn what it is, why it matters, and how to choose and implement solutions that work. Effectively managing big data is an issue of growing importance to businesses, not-for-profit organizations, government, and IT professionals Authors are experts in information management, big data, and a variety of solutions Explains big data in detail and discusses how to select and implement a solution, security concerns to consider, data storage and presentation issues, analytics, and much more Provides essential information in a no-nonsense, easy-to-understand style that is empowering Big Data For Dummies cuts through the confusion and helps you take charge of big data solutions for your organization.

Find the right big data solution for your business ororganizationBig data management is one of the major challenges facingbusiness, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data setssuch as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patternsmonitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quicklyoutpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If youneed to develop or manage big data solutions, you'll appreciate howthese four experts define, explain, and guide you through this newand often confusing concept. You'll learn what it is, why itmatters, and how to choose and implement solutions that work.* Effectively managing big data is an issue of growing importanceto businesses, not-for-profit organizations, government, and ITprofessionals* Authors are experts in information management, big data, and avariety of solutions* Explains big data in detail and discusses how to select andimplement a solution, security concerns to consider, data storageand presentation issues, analytics, and much more* Provides essential information in a no-nonsenseeasy-to-understand style that is empoweringBig Data For Dummies cuts through the confusion and helpsyou take charge of big data solutions for your organization.

Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Big Data 7Chapter 1: Grasping the Fundamentals of Big Data 9Chapter 2: Examining Big Data Types 25Chapter 3: Old Meets New: Distributed Computing 37Part II: Technology Foundations for Big Data 45Chapter 4: Digging into Big Data Technology Components 47Chapter 5: Virtualization and How It Supports DistributedComputing 61Chapter 6: Examining the Cloud and Big Data 71Part III: Big Data Management 83Chapter 7: Operational Databases 85Chapter 8: MapReduce Fundamentals 101Chapter 9: Exploring the World of Hadoop 111Chapter 10: The Hadoop Foundation and Ecosystem 121Chapter 11: Appliances and Big Data Warehouses 129Part IV: Analytics and Big Data 139Chapter 12: Defi ning Big Data Analytics 141Chapter 13: Understanding Text Analytics and Big Data 153Chapter 14: Customized Approaches for Analysis of Big Data167Part V: Big Data Implementation 179Chapter 15: Integrating Data Sources 181Chapter 16: Dealing with Real-Time Data Streams and ComplexEvent Processing 193Chapter 17: Operationalizing Big Data 201Chapter 18: Applying Big Data within Your Organization 211Chapter 19: Security and Governance for Big Data Environments225Part VI: Big Data Solutions in the Real World 235Chapter 20: The Importance of Big Data to Business 237Chapter 21: Analyzing Data in Motion: A Real-World View 245Chapter 22: Improving Business Processes with Big DataAnalytics: A Real-World View 255Part VII: The Part of Tens 263Chapter 23: Ten Big Data Best Practices 265Chapter 24: Ten Great Big Data Resources 271Chapter 25: Ten Big Data Do's and Don'ts 275Glossary 279Index 295