Big Data News & Articles

Semantic Web technology is slowly changing the way people use the Internet, and Semtech 2012 is a prime showcase for the best minds in linked data, enterprise solutions and interactive Web experiences.

I really do like it when mainstream media pick up on trends that folks like us have been talking about for some time. To me, it validates its significance, even if some of the topics need to be simplified to appeal to the masses. However, sometimes it annoys me when those in the media get it wrong. Case in point: on Monday, Dennis Overbye for the New York Times wrote a seemingly harmless human interest story about big data.

Big data is changing online publishing. As a result of this growing phenomenon, publishers are now facing four key challenges and exploring new ways to tackle them.

General Motors caused a tremor last month when it pulled its paid banner ads from Facebook. Because the timing of the news was so close to the social networking site’s IPO, there wasn’t much talk about what the world’s largest automaker’s decision might signal about the effectiveness of ads on social media as a whole, or whether other brands are likely to reconsider their social spends.

But with Facebook’s stock hitting an all-time low yesterday (it closed at US$ 26.90, the lowest price since the stock began trading at US$ 38 on May 18), some say the tremor has turned into a full-blown earthquake. It comes as a shock to many that petabytes of big, personal data don’t easily translate to dollars.

Experience analytics solutions vendor ClickFox is focusing on providing a wide view of customer behavior and the business drivers propelling it with the newly released version 6.4 of its Customer Experience Analytics (CEA) behavior recognition engine.

Autonomy, with a mighty shove from its new owner HP, is the latest company to push its way into the Big Data space through the combination of Autonomy IDOL 10 and HP’s Converged Cloud.

Big Data is not indicative of having a bigger brain. In fact, it seems that the bigger your data, the more overwhelmed companies are about developing smarter strategies about how to handle accelerated data growth. Fortunately, IBM has launched a few updates aimed at helping a broader and more diverse set of enterprise customers manage and process growing volumes of data smarter and more efficiently.

When the New York Times writes about nanotargeting, you could say it’s kind of a big deal. But just because nanotargeting has received some impressive press doesn’t mean that everyone knows what it does or how to use it effectively.

IT giant EMC is looking to boost its cloud computing monitoring systems with the purchase of Watch4Net, a performance monitoring and management software company.

Big Data is generating some big ideas. According to AIIM’s new Industry Watch Report titled, “Big Data – Extracting value from your digital landfills,"  70% of business and technology professionals have a “killer application idea” for Big Data that could be used for competitive advantage, running the business smoothly or detecting non-compliance. So what’s stopping them? Lack of expertise, cost and the difficulty of connecting their datasets are just some of the issues. 26% of organizations indicate that they are still struggling to organize their content.

You say infographic, I say data visualization. Po-tay-to, po-tah-to, right? It seems that every day a new graphic representation of data shows up begging us to zoom in, scroll and otherwise engage, but how you get to the final result comes down to the using the right data and the right tool. We can’t help you with your data, but we can help you find the right tool. We compiled our list of the tools for creating infographics and data visuals. Today, we present our top five tools for creating infographics.

While most branding experts have come to agree that social media platforms such as Facebook are necessary customer relationship tools in the 21st century, many of them still have a hard time stating exactly why this is so. Quantifying the value Facebook provides branding efforts is not an easy task, but Polygraph Media is releasing a new application called Polygraph Reports aimed at making determining the hard value of Facebook branding efforts a little easier.

If EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci aimed to put its partners' collective mind at rest over the fate of Documentum, then Jeremy Burton, the company’s CMO, was there to outline where EMC is going with the cloud and Big Data.

Usually it’s the Monday of any given vendor conference that the big news gets released. In the case of EMC, it was the partner conference yesterday in Las Vegas (Sunday) that set the tone for a conference that looks set to be full of interesting nuggets. Two big things came out of it yesterday, both of them issues where many people wanted to see what EMC would say.

It’s the eve of Facebook’s IPO and everyone, and I mean everyone, is talking about it.