How Big Data Can Help You Make Money

Making money with big data is not difficult if you already have a business in place. Numerous businesses have become more profitable, efficient, and productive when using big data. Since 91 percent of businesses use big data to make money, ...

5 Big Data Apps with Effective Use Cases

Even if your organization is compelled to become more data-driven, many don’t know how to transform themselves out of the use-your-gut mentality and into a data-first one. The easiest way? Take shortcuts by refusing to reinvent the wheel and following the ...

Altiscale Hadoop-as-a-Service Delivers Apache Hive 0.13

Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions, has announced the availability of Apache Hiveâ„¢ 0.13 on its HaaS platform, just weeks since its general software release to the industry. For data scientists and businesses that rely on insights ...

5 Areas Where Big Data is Doing Well

It's not often that an IT innovation is as disruptive as Big-Data. The tecnology has brought a paradigm shift in our approach, storage, usage and monetization of data assets. Every path-breaking innovation has its share of hype, expectations and "Big ...

5 Big Data Use Cases To Watch

We hear a lot about big data's ability to deliver usable insights -- but what does this mean exactly? It's often unclear how enterprises are using big-data technologies beyond proof-of-concept projects. Some of this might be a byproduct of corporate secrecy. ...