GigaOm, By Derrick Harris, Sep. 14, 2013

The infrastructure layer of big data is largely solved, which means startups that want to make a difference might need to look up at applications and analytics. So says veteran entrepreneur, investor and founding Vertica Systems CEO Andy Palmer, who was a guest on Structure Show podcast this week, opining about all things startup.

Andy Palmer list of trends and startups:

Data integration/curation

• Trifacta (Read our profile here.)
• Data Tamer (Note: Palmer is a co-founder.)
• Paxata

Analytics

• R Studio
• WibiData (Read our latest coverage here.)
• Recorded Future
• Nutonian

Visualization

• D3.js
• Fathom Information Design
• Processing

Database as a service

• Cloudant (Note: Palmer is on the board.)
• Amazon DynamoDB (According to Palmer, "It's [already] one of the most successful services in the AWS portfolio.")
• Amazon Redshift
• Anything document oriented (e.g., any MongoDB service)

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