Can You Put a Price on Big Data?
The internet era has changed the economic and political landscape completely. The power of big data has revolutionised most business processes and now allows for decisions and analytical judgments to be made with more certainty than ever before.
In order for ...
Making Hadoop Simple On-premises and in the Cloud
An increasing number of enterprises are either currently using or are planning to use cloud deployment models to expand their IT infrastructure for big data. We find that organizations are looking for an open and flexible platform that enables them ...
MapReduce for C: Run Native Code in Hadoop
Google announced the release of MapReduce for C (MR4C), an open source framework that allows you to run native code in Hadoop.
MR4C was originally developed at Skybox Imaging to facilitate large scale satellite image processing and geospatial data science. We ...
3 Big data trends for business intelligence
Big data has given businesses a window into valuable streams of information from customer purchasing habits to inventory status. However, internal data streams give only a limited picture, especially with the growth of digital business.
Three trends Gartner has identified describe ...
MongoDB 3.0 NoSQL database integrates WiredTiger engine and Ops Manager tool
MongoDB has announced the latest release of the NoSQL database, incorporating the WiredTiger storage engine for greater performance, and introducing Ops Manager, a new application for managing MongoDB deployments.
MongoDB 3.0 is set to be generally available in March, when the ...
13th Conference in Master Data Management: Governed + Integrated
22-24 April 2015–Barcelona, Spain
This marcus evans event will focus core topic of actually governing data integrity across multiple company units globally and of actually making sure the pull for MDM is coming from the business itself, rather than pushing MDM to the business. ...
Could Microsoft Cosmos Challenge Hadoop?
A new Microsoft data crunching framework is set to launch on the company’s Azure cloud, according to a report from Redmond pundit Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet. Dubbed Cosmos, it’s a potential competitor to both Hadoop and eventually Google’s homegrown ...
11 Telecom Operators Sharing Case Studies and Perspectives Monetising Big Data in Telecoms World Summit 2015
Senior Directors from 11 telecom operators namely Aircel, Bedigital, Bharti Airtel, Celcom, Digi, Globe Telecom, Indosat, StarHub, True Corporation, Vodafone & XL Axiata will be sharing case studies and perspectives on how to monetise internal and external big data at ...
Apache Flink: Possible replacement for Hadoop?
Earlier this week, Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest Top Level Project (TLP), Flink.
Flink is just one of the many data processing tools that have emerged since the Java-based distributed computing platform Hadoop has increased adoption in the enterprise space.
Flink is ...
5 Trends in Big Data revealed
Even if the term big data is overused to encompass more about the digital world than it should, there is no denying it’s relevance to today’s enterprises.
Companies have been forced to re-examine their data management strategies to make the most ...