See if the R language fits in your big data toolkit
SAS is a data processing and statistical analysis language that was invented by Anthony J. Barr in the 1960s. It ...
Twitter open sources Storm-Hadoop hybrid called Summingbird
Twitter has open sourced a system that aims to mitigate the tradeoffs between batch processing and stream processing by combining ...
HP Makes Big Data Plans for Intel Avoton Processors
HP, in partnership with Intel, significantly expanded the capabilities of its forthcoming line of Project Moonshot servers by adding support ...
6 Basic Mistakes Marketers Make About Big Data
Sure, we're all suffering from big data fatigue. But try to forget that for a moment. The real “eureka” behind ...
Cassandra 2.0-The next generation of big data
In 2008, Facebook gave big data users a gift. The social network released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data ...
Big data is just one of the CMO’s weapons
Big Data is only part of the CMO’s new armoury. It’s what you do with that information next that has ...
How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
Gartner’s definition of big data dates back from 2001, when Doug Laney defined big data as increasing volume (amount of ...
Why Businesses That Neglect Big Data Will Be Left Behind
One of the great concerns of social scientists in the 21st century has been the digital divide, a stratification of ...
Think small for big data services
If there is one consistent theme of the big data bubble, it is that most organisations do not have the ...
Internet of Things gives rise to era of big data
As businesses across the globe collect more and more data, the "Internet of Things" is increasingly looking like a reality. ...