IT firms widen base with big data
Amid subdued demand for traditional information technology (IT) services offerings, Indian IT services players are betting on big data, as this is high on clients' agenda. Most IT services companies are enhancing their capabilities, either by creating platforms to process ...
SAP inks Hadoop deals with Intel and Hortonworks
SAP has partnered with Intel and Hortonworks to resell the two companies' Hadoop offerings, as the enterprise software giant tentatively gets involved with the new fashionable data platform.
The announcement was made on Wednesday at Techcrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, and ...
NSA’s big data efforts need transparency, privacy
Recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive data collection programs illustrates the need for a new privacy debate about the implications of big data, some privacy advocates said Tuesday.
The increasing uses of big data in all kinds of ...
9 Truths Lead To Big Data’s Future
Now and then I find myself thinking about the big principles of big data; that is, not about Hadoop vs. relational databases or Mahout vs. Weka, but rather about fundamental wisdom that frames our vision of "the new currency" of ...
Tableau and Syncsort Partner to Collapse Data Silos into Hadoop
Tableau and Syncsort announced this week that they have entered a strategic partnership to make siloed information more consumable for data-driven enterprises.
Syncsort sells ETL software that helps organizations import data from mainframes and other legacy platforms into Hadoop. Tableau in ...
Is Little Data The Next Big Data?
Is personal quantification the next evolution of the Big Data revolution? And is our addiction to analytics leading us astray?
Three weeks ago, at approximately 10:32pm, Nike made me hit my dog in the face. Now before the ASPCA starts calling, ...
Big Data Consolidation Upswing Will Place Premium on Predictive Analytics
While Big Data is hardly a new topic, the generation and storage of data resulting from the social, mobile, and local and machine-to-machine convergence trend continues unabated, justifying further investigation. That is why I'm joining my colleagues at Mooreland Partners ...
How Netflix could use Big Data to make twice as much money off you
How much would you pay for a Netflix subscription?
For some people, paying $8 a month for Netflix is a steal. Others aren’t so willing to open their wallets. Both types of consumers represent a kind of lost opportunity for Netflix ...
Univa, MapR Partner Over Enterprise-Grade Hadoop Management
Data center automation company Univa is working with MapR Technologies to integrate its Grid Engine. The partnership will allow customers to run mixed workloads for enterprise reporting and analytics using the MapR Distribution for Hadoop with the policy control management ...
See if the R language fits in your big data toolkit
SAS is a data processing and statistical analysis language that was invented by Anthony J. Barr in the 1960s. It later became the mainstay product of the SAS Institute, which was incorporated in 1976 by Barr, Jim Goodnight, John Sall, ...