Big Data News & Articles

Smart people use behavior-based data. They make decisions based on what people actually do.

IBM has just announced that it has inked an IT deal with the government of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia the details of which offer a very good explanation as to why most countries around the world want a Big Blue set up inside their borders.

It seems a little fitting to talk about the validity of demographic targeting the day after an election in which demography played a key role in deciding the outcome. No matter what side of the aisle you sit or which key issues you support, you belong to a specific demographic that pollsters and statisticians have spent a great deal of time (and money) on trying to figure out what you stand for and the likelihood that it will influence other areas of your life.

Business analytics provider Pentaho has released faster big data analytics and BI tools for the iPad with its Pentaho 4.8 suite.

Splunk has announced the release of Splunk Enterprise 5, introducing improvements to the company's big data collection and analytics software.

Enterprise software solution-based company Attunity has announced that its cloud service CloudBeam has moved from a Private Beta into Public Beta and incorporates two data movement services: upload to cloud and replication between cloud regions.

Any enterprise manager, or CIO, who thinks they may be able to avoid Big Data solutions, or managing Big Data, should probably read the recent research from IBM, which shows that not only has Big Data analysis become a core part of business decision making, but that for 63% of enterprises surveyed, Big Data analysis is giving them a competitive edge.

Earlier this month we told you about PrivacyFix, a browser extension that helps put the user in control of their own online privacy. Recently, we learned about another app that not only lets you control your privacy but shows you the data that is being sold to advertisers about you and evaluate its value.

Sitecore's Senior VP of Product Marketing, Darren Guarnaccia provided an updated Roadmap for Sitecore's stable of product offerings during the Sitecore Symposium 2012 North America in Las Vegas. There's quite a few interesting improvements and additions that will be of interest to both business and technical users.

The promise of big data is that it contains big information, big insights. But data and information are not the same. Data is only as valuable as the information and insight we can extract from it, because it’s the information and insight that help us make better decisions.

If you listen to some big data pundits, you might get the impression that Hadoop can do almost anything. Heck, I let Hadoop babysit my kids last weekend. There is, however, couple of tiny things the big data powerhouse has not been able to conquer -- SQL syntax and real-time queries. Cloudera is trying to close that gap.

Following Microsoft’s big data strategy is a bit like watching the US presidential election. We’ve endured months of shifting opinions, surprise partnerships, secrets and leaked information. Now the Seattle giant is capitalizing on the attention from this week’s Strata and Hadoop World to reveal a bit more about its big data play.

SAP delivers efficient processing of massive data sets with real-time insights.

IBM has several announcements from its Information on Demand 2012 conference in Las Vegas this week, and as the name of the event implies, many are big data and BI oriented.

Live from O’Reilly Strata Conference and Hadoop World: MapR M7 brings enterprise-grade reliability and performance to HBase, adding integrated snapshots, mirroring, instant recovery, and delivering consistent, low latency.