Learn how to leverage Big Data on a shoestring ...

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - May 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Many small- to mid-sized businesses are positioned to benefit greatly from the goldmine of essential business intelligence offered by Big Data, but hesitate because of an assumption that costs for real-time Big Data acquisition, warehousing and analysis will inevitably be prohibitive.

This is not the case, as revealed in Lars Nielsen's Low Cost BIG DATA for Small- to Mid-Sized Firms and Lean Start-Ups.

In this concise 6000-word Executive Summary, leading industry consultant and bestselling author Lars Nielsen surveys and introduces a range of affordable Big Data approaches geared for organizations on tight budgets.

Nielsen objectively analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, thus supplying information-rubrics to help professionals decide which might be best for their operations.

The information contained in this summary represents what Nielsen would normally impart over the course of a consulting hour (a $300 consulting hour) to a small-business client looking to get started leveraging Big Data.

CONTENTS: Introduction * Big Data Briefly Defined * Hadoop *RedShift, Elastic MapReduce and Other Assets from Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Some Praise, Some Criticism * Oracle's NoSQL Database for Free – Perks and Pitfalls * Microsoft's BizSpark Program – An “Affordable” Solution for Lean Start-Ups – But Also an “Adjustable-Rate-Mortgage” Fat Bomb * Google BigQuery – Pretty Good Overall, and Priced Right, But With a Few Limitations * Big Data Resources from Intuit, and Privacy Concerns * Wrapping It Up

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lars Nielsen has more than thirty years experience as a consultant and IT developer/administrator for a range of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books include The Little Book of Cloud Computing, A Simple Introduction to Data Science, Computing: A Business History and The Little Book of Cloud Computing Security, all published by New Street Communications.

Published by New Street Communications, LLC exclusively for the Amazon Kindle eReader environment.

Published May 2013.

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