Google’s Calico-With Big Data You’ll Live Forever
Google’s latest business venture: Calico, or the “California Life Company,” aims to extend life by tackling aging and disease. How? Big-data analytics is the key.
On the one hand, could this be an early Google April fool?
On The Other Hand, Google ...
8 Keys To A Game-Changing Big Data Strategy
Is it time for your company to get into big data? Wrong question—you’re already in it. The real question is whether you will seize the opportunity or be overwhelmed by it.
The fact is that all businesses are on the big ...
Government Networks Unprepared for Cloud, Big Data Transitions
As federal agencies gear up for a series of major IT transitions, a majority of government network managers say that their government software systems lack the capacity that will be required to meet the additional load that cloud computing, big ...
IBM Buys Big Data Software Provider Daeja Image Systems
IBM announced it has acquireds Ltd., a leading provider of software that makes it easier for business and IT professionals to view large documents and images. Daeja is a privately held software company with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK. Financial ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...