Big Data provides Big Opportunities for Innovation
According to Wikipedia, Big Data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using regular database management tools. Many organisations are now using advanced methods to analyse large data ...
Improving the Big Data Toolkit
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software world. And Hadoop, the bedrock software of the fast-growing Big Data business, is ...
Big data-Does size really matter?
Big data is becoming one big complex. It is the business world’s newest iteration of “keeping up with the Joneses.” The fervor for the latest and most expensive collection systems, infrastructure, and PhD-wielding data scientists is rising with the signature ...
Google taps big data for universal translator
Google Translate is currently best known for being a quick and dirty way to render Web pages or short text snippets in another language. But according to Der Spiegel, the next step for the core technology behind that service is ...
Zettaset working toward Big Data encryption for Hadoop
Zettaset, which makes management and security software for Hadoop, says it plans to add encryption capabilities by year end.
Eric Murray, security architect at Zettaset, says the firm’s Orchestrator suite for managing Hadoop clusters is being enhanced to include a way ...
Strategy and Application Are Both Key with Big Data
Anyone who spends time sifting through industry publications – regarding just about any major sector – can't go too long without stumbling upon some content regarding big data. The intensity of the laser-focused attention on big data has reached a ...
Putting the R Into Hadoop
With the amount of data being fed into Hadoop these days, it’s natural for customers to want to do some statistical analysis upon it. Revolution Analytics, which distributes a commercial version of the R statistical environment, says it has lowered ...
Use big data to fight cybercrime
 While organizations don't always need to understand how an attack works from an in-depth technical perspective, they do need to understand how the attacks get past their defenses. A successful CISO will arm himself with analytics and learn from others' ...
How to tell if your database is outdated-5 warning signs
A company's database is an important component of business intelligence and helps to integrate the various departments within the enterprise. For years, companies relied on databases with ETL (extract, transform, load) processing to extract, clean and integrate data into the ...
5 Myths and Truths About Big Data
"Big data" has become a catchall term for the vast amount of information generated by our digital lifestyles, and the analytics techniques for dealing with it all to improve marketing, products, and business intelligence. It's become very fashionable to decry ...