Is Big Data big enough for marketers?
Big Data has been gaining in prominence in recent times. For businesses that are experiencing difficulties in making Big Data work in reality, their first step should be to understand the challenges in decoding this Big Data. At Marketing Analytics ...
10 successful big data sandbox strategies
Being able to experiment with big data and queries in a safe and secure “sandbox” test environment is important to both IT and end business users as companies get going with big data. Nevertheless, setting up a big data sandbox ...
Big data and predictive analytics-When is enough data enough?
"Many predictive analytics applications turn out not to need all of the data," Berry said during his keynote talk at Predictive Analytics World. So the real task for data scientists et al. isn't figuring out how to analyze all the ...
MongoDB Raises $150M For NoSQL Database Technology With Salesforce
MongoDB has raised $150 million from T. Rowe Price Associates with new investors Altimeter Capital and Salesforce.com. Existing investors Intel Capital, NEA, Red Hat and Sequoia Capital also participated in the round. MongoDB has raised $231 million since the founders ...
Big Data for Telco Begins to Unleash Systems of Engagement
In our recently completed Q3 2013 Global State Of Enterprise Architecture Online Survey, big data for real-time analytics moved from the No. 3 most revolutionary technology to the No. 2 position, according to the 116 enterprise architects who participated. This ...
ForeScout and Splunk team on Big Data and security intelligence
ForeScout Technologies Inc., a leading provider of pervasive network security solutions for Fortune 1000 enterprises and government organisations, today announced a technology partnership with Splunk Inc., the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence.
In conjunction with the partnership, ForeScout has ...
Planning for scale with Enterprise NoSQL
All applications have inherent limits in what they can support. As organizations grow, so do their expectations on the apps they use. Development and operations teams need to plan for large scale from day one — not react to it ...
Big Data, Apple Driving Industry’s Biggest Salaries
Enterprises may still not know exactly what value they expect to glean from Big Data, but that hasn't stopped them from spending big money on Big Data skills like Hadoop and NoSQL. According to a 2013 Dice Tech Salary Survey, ...
NewSQL Vendor MemSQL Takes On MongoDB
Startup vendor MemSQL announced Wednesday a new release of its high-scale, in-memory database that adds JSON (Java Script Object Notation) support. The move is aimed at attracting developers who might otherwise choose the MongoDB NoSQL database.
MongoDB has the leading market ...
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 ...