Teradata Aster gets graph database, HDFS-compatible file store
When Teradata bought Aster Data in 2011, it set out on a quest to bring (then) esoteric Big Data technology to the relational database faithful. Specifically, Aster's SQL-MapReduce facility allowed specialists to write MapReduce code that would be executed not ...
Has Hadoop Entered the Mainstream?
After all the hype around Apache Hadoop, we are starting to see some successful implementations that highlight its benefits. However, we do not yet see the kind of enterprise adoption typically associated with a technology that promises to manage high ...
Making a business case for Hadoop
How will it fit in traditional enterprise IT environments?
Apache Hadoop is an open source technology that offers a radically cheaper alternative to the processing and storage of large amounts of unstructured data.
But for all of its potential benefits, Hadoop can ...
Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage.
Tape has been around since the dawn of electronic computers and is still used for many types of long-term storage, but it hasn’t played ...
IBM launches research lab for big data applications
The world has a lot of Big Data, or massive amounts of information stored across giant data centers. Now it’s time to make use of it. That’s why IBM Research has created its new Accelerated Discovery Lab. The aim is ...
How the cloud fits into the big data technology stack
What is the technology stack that makes big data go? And how does it work with cloud computing? Here’s how three successful companies – SoftLayer, Cloudant and Rosetta Stone – work at different layers of the big data technology stack.
Bare ...
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 Success Means Investing in Talent and Tech
With all signs pointing to greater big data spending by businesses, the question is: Do you want to get the most out of your investment? To do so, experts say businesses shouldn't just invest on big data technologies, but on ...
The Top 5 Big Data Use Cases Your CEO Will Love
One of the biggest questions surrounding ‘analytics’ and ‘big data’ is how do you actually use it to add value? Big data is still such a foggy term that it attracts many myths ranging from ‘big data is not useful ...
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 ...