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 ...
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 ...
Big data getting big for India Inc
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 ...
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 ...
Using machine learning to make sense of IT’s big data
Business’ IT infrastructure is not something customers see. And more and more often, the businesses don’t “see” it either as they outsource the management of servers and services to third-party partners. This works well until a server outage disrupts a ...
The Wide Range of Different Big Data Technologies
Many of the latest big data technologies are developed by big data startups from around the world that have found a way to deal with the vast amounts of data. They have developed disruptive big data technology that can be ...
Math matters-how big data is building the future of everything
New materials lead to new innovations. Gorilla Glass is a big selling point for smartphones. Kevlar saves lives and has worked its way into consumer products. Lithium-ion batteries have enabled a host of energy-storage applications, from planes to cars to ...
Cloudera and Syncsort partner to offload mainframe data to Hadoop
Software vendor Syncsort has partnered with Cloudera, provider of one of the most popular distributions of Apache Hadoop, to create a solution for customers who want to apply Hadoop-based analytics to data that sits on mainframes.
According to Syncsort, mainframes host ...
Big Data Developers Fear Government Snooping
The level of concern within the developer community prompted by the recent government snooping revelations has been revealed in a new survey. It revealed that nearly four out of 10 (or 39 percent of) developers working with big data applications ...
Splunk Is a Big Winner in Big Data
Wedbush conducted a Big Data roundtable with 10 software and Internet companies that have significant initiatives in high-volume unstructured data, real-time data, and next-generation analytics.
Big Data may be overhyped as a technology trend, but we believe the large majority of ...