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' ...
How to tell if your database is outdated-5 warning signs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 ...
How to Manage Big Data with a Data Governance Policy
Companies, both large and small, learning to cope with big data are using a myriad of strategies from employing private and public cloud enabled technology to completely overhauling their view on support of data types, device types, and overall data ...