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 ...
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 ...
Adobe Analytics Update Offers Real-Time Analysis
Adobe has released a major update of its Adobe Analytics software, which adds advanced analytics capabilities such as new anomaly detection as well as improved real-time reporting capabilities, data visualizations, mobile app insights and video metrics.
A major component of the ...
Sepaton launches super-duper big data-slurping deduper
Sepaton has updated its 16-node deduping disk-to-disk backup mill with hybrid dedupe methods and has planned a capacity jump to 16 petabytes.
The S2100-ES2 generation is being followed by this new VirtuoSO product, which keeps the clustered node limit of 16 ...
Extreme Big Data- Beyond Zettabytes And Yottabytes
If we’re going to talk about big data—and it’s one of the most important discussions in business today—we better all speak the same language. In the hierarchy of big data, there are petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, and yottabytes. After that, things ...