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 ...
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 ...
3 Ways to Move SQL into Hadoop Faster
Despite the increasing interest in unstructured data, much of the world's information still lives in some form of relational database. Firing up your first Hadoop cluster often means moving data from existing SQL tables, maybe hosted in SQL Server, MySQL ...
Big Data Security Analytics FAQ
While big data security analytics content varies from discussion to discussion, I consistently come across a lot of misunderstanding around the topic as a whole. This is understandable since “big data” is really a marketing term that the industry has ...
Big Data, Apple Driving Industry’s Biggest Salaries
Enterprises may still not know exactly what value they expect to glean from Big Data, but that hasn't stopped them from spending big money on Big Data skills like Hadoop and NoSQL. According to a 2013 Dice Tech Salary Survey, ...
5 Insights Your Traditional Data Won’t Tell You
The traditional relational database has been the mainstay of IT for decades. It offered a reliable way to store and search for structured data and an easy way to compare different categories of information. While the relational database works great ...
Big data deployments remain low among firms
More organizations may be investing in big data projects but few have actually deployed such initiatives. According to a Gartner study released Tuesday, 64 percent of businesses said they were investing or planning to invest in big data technology, up ...
3 key differences between big data and analytics
Organizations around the world and across various industries are employing the philosophies of big data in order to gain more insight into their business and improve processes. However, it is not rare for many executives to wonder if big data ...
3 Roadblocks To Big Data ROI
Most organizations that implement big data platforms expect to derive significant value from their investment. But nearly half of these firms aren't achieving the level of value or return on investment (ROI) that they had expected.
According to a new study ...