Enterprises don’t need petabytes of data, a small army of data scientists, not even a big budget to get a meaningful start with Big Data — thanks to Hadoop.
Harness Big Data, the common refrain in many business and technology publications ...
Big Data is revolutionizing 21st-century business without anybody knowing what it actually means. Now computer scientists have come up with a definition they hope everyone can agree on.
One of the biggest new ideas in computing is “big data.” There is ...
It's an engrossing thought for an idle moment: if you had all the computing power in the world at your disposal, what task would you want accomplished? Would you put it to work on a cure for cancer? Or perhaps ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
In India, big data is giving rise to markedly improved decision making and is having a significant impact on companies competitive differentiation and ability to avert risk, said a study.
Almost 91% of Indian businesses surveyed reported that better uses of ...