Why NoSQL is important for mobile app developers
Chatting with Bob Wiederhold, CEO with Couchbase was just like a blast from the past for GoMo News. We began to talk about databases when he started to explain why his company, Couchbase, had decided to move into the mobile ...
Big Data Is Too Big for Scientists to Handle Alone
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a National Science Foundation grant. There was no formal organization, no employees, no detailed science ...
How big data will solve your email problem
Over 150 billion email messages are currently being sent every day from about 3.5 billion email accounts worldwide. So, it’s easy to understand why we miss important messages as we struggle to keep up with the surge. For some, the ...
10 ways to prevent loss of big data enthusiasm
Companies are finding that it's a lot more challenging to implement big data than they thought it would be! And some are losing enthusiasm.
What are ten things you can do to prevent a loss of momentum in your big data ...
Get A Return On Your Big Data Investments
The hunger for collecting information into what is commonly called Big Data has become a goal in itself, far removed from the original reasons for retaining transaction data from a variety of business processes. Enterprises have worked hard to collect, ...
Cloud computing and the rise of big data
Cloud computing democratizes big data – any enterprise can now work with unstructured data at a huge scale.
At first glance, it isn’t obvious why the unstructured data methods of the new big data world are even necessary. Even if new ...
Data Visualization-Drawing Actionable Big Data Insights
“So much data, so little time.” That’s how a lot of companies feel about the explosion of Big Data. After all, the thought of capturing, analyzing and somehow getting insights from mountains of disparate data can be overwhelming. And not ...
Scientists must spearhead ethical use of big data
The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional erning the bond between science and society.
Most breakthrough technologies have dual uses. Think of atomic energy ...
Fedora Linux 20 Gears Up to Be a Big Data Server
The open source Fedora Linux distribution is out this week with the first alpha development build of its Fedora 20 release, along with a long list of proposed changes.
One of the key additions set to land in Fedora 20 is ...
Big-Data as Disease Detective
IBM announced earlier today that some of its research scientists are now collaborating with Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, San Francisco, to combat illness and infectious diseases in real-time with smarter data tools for public health.
The focus ...