Big Data News & Articles

Earlier on we took a look at HP’s upgrade to its Marketing Performance Suite, which combined technologies from Autonomy and HP. Another set of announcements from today’s proceedings at HPDiscover in Frankfurt cover HP’s future take on Big Data and how it is going to tackle it.

Could the key to better government lie in its mountains of already free and available data? 

With less than a month until we celebrate a new year, we can't help but look ahead with some curiosity about what 2013 will mean for mobile, social business and the enterprise overall. We looked into our crystal ball and consulted some well known sources for some insight into what we could experience going forward. And then we represented it visually!

What's up with EMC's Big Data spin machine? First, rumors of a new PaaS business unit plaster the Web, then EMC Greenplum announces purchase of MoreVRP via... a Blog Post? -- Really?

Based in part on the release of its Enterprise 5 big data and analytics tool, Splunk reported a strong third quarter with revenues up nearly 70% over the previous year.

The fact that IBM has just announced that it is opening a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio is interesting in its own right -- the fact that this is the second such center in a month points to a strategy that should put IBM as the top dog in the analytics space within the time it takes one group of students to graduate.

The explosion of Big Data in the past few years has added a fourth “V” to the traditional “three Vs” of Big Data -- Volume, Velocity and Veracity. That fourth V is “Value.”

Earlier in the week Amazon slashed its storage prices on S3. In response, Google -- which just upgraded its cloud services -- slashed its storage prices not once, but twice, reducing the overall costs by 30% in one week.

Amazon announced two more EC2 instance types at its first ever partner conference reInvent this week, and also showed off a new analytics tool called AWS Data Pipeline.

What comes first -- social activity or customer relationships? Can you have one without the other? This month's Tweet Jam participants dissected the issues related to Social CRMs, the strategies that drive them and the very essence that makes companies successfully social. In our last Tweet Jam of 2012, this was probably our most comprehensive -- leaving us all with much to ponder as we prepare for the new year.

Two back-to-back morning keynote sessions at the first day of the Gilbane Conference in Boston featured a wide variety of presenters speaking on an array of information and content management topics. Following is a roundup of the key points each keynote speaker made.

As the US slowly shakes off the bed heads after Thanksgiving weekend, Norwegian Web content management vendor eZ has just announced the release of a major upgrade to its platform in the shape of v5, or ‘Kilimanjaro’, which it says take a leap into customer experience management. 

Companies use business intelligence to analyze key data on their hard assets, but why don't they do a better job of looking at the data they have on the people that work for them? Oracle surveyed 400 companies in UK, France, Germany and Australia to find out. 

Rick Devenuti stepped into a mess when he first took the helm at EMC’s Information Intelligence Group (IIG), commonly known as Documentum (2010). When I asked him if he knew what he had gotten himself into, he gave a theoretical response, “Does anybody ever know?”

That's right, stop pasting data into Excel spreadsheets, Dachis says its new Collaborative Reporting will offer more time for decision making.