7 Big Data Trends for 2014
As the year 2013 is almost over, it is good to have a look back at the trends that I discussed for 2013 and look forward to the Big Data trends of 2014. It can be said that 2013 was ...
Why Santa needs Big Data
Now, Hadoop! Now, SQL! Now, NOSQL, and Opensource! On, Cloud technology! On, Apps! On, SaaS, and Infrastructure!
Back in the days before databases, automated production lines, and GPS, one man had one of the best, if not THE best system in ...
7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives
We know that big data is changing the way we live and work. It is changing societies and changing businesses. On this platform we have included many best practices that show concrete example of how this is happening. To illustrate ...
IBM’s Predictions: 6 Big Data Trends In 2014
A big data expert shares predictions based on feedback from IBM's enterprise clients. Is it time to update your strategy?
Businesses next year will sharpen their focus on big data and place a greater emphasis on analytics projects, data-related security and ...
Top 10 big data stories of 2013
Big data. Anyone sick of it yet? Not the technology: the pulling together and cross-matching of disparate data on a massive scale is arguably producing more social, commercial and political change than any other innovation over the last couple of ...
HP’s Earth Insights deploys big data tech against eco threats
HP has turned its Vertica big data technology to the task of helping ecologists detect risks to threatened species.
The company announced HP Earth Insights on Tuesday, a joint project with non-governmental organisation Conservation International designed to speed up the analysis ...
Pivotal partners with Capgemimi on Big Data
IT consultancy joins Pivotal party to help both firms make sense of big data.
EMC’s “billion dollar start-up” Pivotal has teamed with IT consultancy Capgemini to support the development of its big data offerings.
The firms said the partnership would bring together ...
6 Issues To Consider When Planning A Big Data Project
Big data should be about solving specific problems, not just jumping on the technology bandwagon. Here are six issues to consider as you plan or refine big data projects.
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These comments come from the recent Gartner Symposium ...
Five ways to handle Big Data in R
Big data was one of the biggest topics on this year’s useR conference in Albacete and it is definitely one of today’s hottest buzzwords. But what defines “Big Data”? And on the practical side: How can big data be tackled ...
Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub
Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization’s data, not just data undergoing Hadoop MapReduce ...