Big Data Analytics: Thinking Outside of Hadoop
Srinivasan Sundara Rajan | September 13, 2012
Source: Cloud Computing
In the recent release of '2012 Hype Cycle Of Emerging Technologies,' research analyst Gartner evaluated several technologies to come up with a list of technologies that will dominate the future. "Big Data" related technologies form a significant portion of the list...
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Google’s Real Time Big Data Tool Cloned By Apache Drill
Klint Finley | August 17, 2012
Source: Tech Crunch
Google, as you might expect, has massive amounts of data and it’s built many tools to handle it. Stuff like MapReduce and GoogleFS, which spawned the open source Apache Hadoop, and BigTable, which spawned Apache HBase....
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Database management outsourcing on the rise
Admire Moyo | August 16, 2012
Source: ITWeb
Outsourcing database management skills is a growing trend that will certainly keep escalating over the coming years in the South African market. So says Johan Lamberts, MD of Ascent Technology, commenting on the findings of the ITWeb-Ascent...
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BIG Data Analytics Pipeline
Ricky Ho | August 13, 2012
Source: Ricky Ho
"Big Data Analytics" has recently been one of the hottest buzzwords. It is a combination of "Big Data" and "Deep Analysis". The former is a phenomenon of Web2.0 where a lot of transaction...
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Breaking: Hadoop Community Votes To Upgrade Hadoop Core with YARN
John Furrier | August 3, 2012
Source: SiliconANGLE
The Hadoop community voted last night to upgrade the core Hadoop software by upgrading YARN to a full blown Apache sub-project for Hadoop along with HDFS and MapReduce...
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NIH makes big deal of big data
Anthony Brino | January 14, 2013
Source: Healthcare IT News
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is putting a fresh emphasis on health informatics, with Director Francis Collins, MD, creating a new advisory position and recruiting an associate director for Data Science...
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Mobility and Big Data: Why They Need Each Other to Thrive
Scott Snyder | January 7, 2013
Source: Xconomy
Mobile devices and apps will generate seven exabytes of data by 2015, a number that will continue to double and perhaps triple each year. Not only are huge volumes of data/content being communicated through mobile networks...
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Why big data might be more about automation than insights
Derrick Harris | January 2, 2013
Source: GIGAOM
Big data technologies are like manufacturing robots: they let people do what they’re already trying to do, only faster than before and at a much greater scale. But as with any other product, that analyzed data is nothing...
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First Steps to Creating a Cloud Computing Strategy for 2013
Louis Columbus | December 18, 2012
Source: Forbes
2013 will be one of the most pivotal years for cloud computing because trust in these technologies is on the line. Expectations are high regarding these technologies’ ability to deliver business value while reducing operating costs ...
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GE CEO Immelt embraces software; VC Andreessen embraces hardware
Staff | November 29, 2012
Source: Yahoo! Finance
General Electric (GE), famous for branded hardware from lightbulbs to turbines, is pushing hard into software, chief executive Jeffrey Immelt said at the Minds and Machines conference on Thursday ...
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What Your CEO Is Reading: Steam Engines Meet
Big Data
Tom Loftus | March 8, 2013
Source: Wall Street Journal
Can’t sleep? Blame the industrial revolution; Big Data in the age of the steam engine; inside Facebook’s innovation culture ...
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The Limits Of Big Data Marketing
Greg Satell | March 6, 2013
Source: Forbes
Insight used to be considered a personal quality and one that was essential to be a successful marketer. While other corporate functions, such as finance and logistics, were driven by cold, rational calculation, marketers were supposed to thrive at the human side of business ...
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Big Data in the Big Apple
Viktor Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier | March 6, 2013
Source: Slate
Mike Flowers was a lawyer in the Manhattan district attorney’s office in the early 2000s, prosecuting everything from homicides to Wall Street crimes, then made the shift to a plush corporate law firm. After a boring year behind a desk, he decided to leave that job too ...
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EMC Greenplum Brings SQL to Hadoop
Ben Woo | February 28, 2013
Source: Forbes
Back in January, I wrote a blog post on how we, as an industry will need to combat the Big Data skills shortage. One of the ways I suggested was to bring traditional capabilities, methods and approaches to Big Data (namely Hadoop)...
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RSA's Art Coviello Points to Big Data as Transformative Solution to Security Challenges
Staff | February 26, 2013
Source: Yahoo! Finance
The convergence of Big Data with mobility, cloud, and a social media-driven society have created unparalleled opportunities alongside an equally evolving threat landscape. Big Data analytics and velocity lead to intelligence-driven security models that can learn and evolve from continuously changing threats...
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Successful Businesses Have a Big Data Strategy, SAS Study Finds
Staff | September 12, 2012
Source: CIOInsight
According to a recent survey sponsored by SAS, businesses with a big data strategy are likely to be more successful than those without one. There is a strong correlation between successful businesses and a well-defined data strategy...
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Jaspersoft Big Data Survey Highlights Global Adoption Trends and Use Cases
Staff | August 14, 2012
Source: Jaspersoft
Jaspersoft, the world’s most widely used business intelligence (BI) platform, today shared results from a survey of more than 600 Jaspersoft community members on enterprise use of Big Data in corporate decision-making. The company’s global survey...
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Big Data Survey Highlights Potential, Challenges
Angela Guess | August 17, 2012
Source: Dataversity
RainStor has completed a new survey which provides greater insight on how large enterprises are adopting technology to better manage and analyze Big Data. Sponsored by RainStor, the results comprise responses from senior-level executives...
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Big Data Startups on the Rise with Sizeable Investments and Innovations; SpaceCurve, ParStream & SAP
Kathryn Buford | August 16, 2012
Source: SiliconANGLE
In light of Realtime’s recent $100 million dollar investmentto re-invent the worldwide web, its no secret that Big Data investors have deep pockets and huge ambitions. The possibilities for leveraging massive amounts of data in innovative ways...
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The Deciding Factor: Big Data & Decision Making
Staff | June 4, 2012
Source: Capgemini
Big Data represents a fundamental shift in business decision making. Organizations are used to analyzing internal data– sales, shipments, inventory. Now they are increasingly analyzing external data too, gaining new insights into customers...
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A Comprehensive List of Big Data Statistics
Staff | August 1, 2012
Source: Wikibon
The team at Wikibon is pretty excited about the future of Big Data. From Big Data infographics to revenue forecasts and funding reports, to our own Big Data Manifesto, the market is literally exploding with innovation and development...
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Public Cloud Services Forecast, Worldwide, 2Q11 Update
The migration to public cloud services is one of the hottest topics in IT, and forecast spending in this area, at an annual average growth rate of 18%, is growing more than four times faster than spending on overall IT. However, to put this growth in context, by 2016, at little more than $200 billion, the level of spending on public cloud services will be less than 5% of the total spent on IT overall.
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Can Data Science Save the US Economy?
Saroj Kar | August 3, 2012
Source: SiliconANGLE
In times of global economic crisis, there is an unstable situation in the labor market. Innovation is considered a savior in our current economic uncertainty, as nations shift their prominence in a worldwide marketplace...
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PayPal's Mok Oh On What Is A Data Scientist?
Dan Woods | July 25, 2012
Source: Forbes
Mok Oh is the Chief Scientist of PayPal, a division of eBay. Oh is charged with ensuring that PayPal makes effective use of data, exploring big data for predictive indications about future buying trends in its customers...
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Dealing with data
Theo Bloom | July 13, 2012
Source: PLoS
PLoS Biology aspires to drive openness in data use and re-use, not just open access to the literature. We are pleased to announce a partnership with Dryad that helps our authors make their data re-useable and accessible by providing a home for data linked to publications...
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Big Data Talk 007: The Data Scientist
Staff | July 12, 2012
Source: Big Data Insight Group
When it comes to performing big data analytics, people are quick to point to the data scientist as the integral piece of the puzzle. However, it is a role which many struggle to fill. Dominic Pollard asks why this is and what can be done to bridge the skills gap....
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With A Little Help From My Friends
Jim Golden | July 10, 2012
Source: Forbes
One of the fun parts about being a consultant is sitting down with different healthcare stakeholders and talking big data experiences, opportunities and challenges. Sometimes these conversations go really well...
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