Big Data News & Articles

Huge data flows can yield virtual gold mines of insights, predictions and other analysis, but what happens when the text-based data is in multiple languages? To address Big Data’s Big Language problem, customer engagement provider SDL has announced that its cloud-based BeGlobal machine translation (MT) solution can now integrate with text analytics processing, boosting the ability to track customer sentiment and business trends in multiple languages. 

Are we are on the verge of an analytics revolution? Big data is shifting the way organizations make decisions because of the unique insights it offers into the previously hidden patterns of human behavior.

Mobile technology is a great “release valve” for what Vibes CEO and Mobile Marketing Association Chairman Jack Philbin described as the “balloon” of Big Data during the session “The New Mobile Playbook – Turning Big Data into Big Dollars,” at the Adobe Summit.

Got a case of the SIEM? Could be if your Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) strategy is taking longer to deploy or you're struggling with managing its complexity. A new report from eIQnetworks, which offers simplified security, risk and compliance solutions, reflects responses from 191 IT decision makers and shows that 44 percent said that it took a few weeks to more than a month to deploy their latest SIEM product.

There will be some interesting regional differences in enterprise software spending over this year and next, according to Gartner, but ultimately for the US and Europe things are not looking good. Growth over the next 18 months will be static, or even negative, with cloud computing and customer relationship technologies the areas that will do best.

A disconnect exists between digital marketing and IT that's fueled in part by software promising IT-free solutions. But the truth isn't that simple.

Everyone is doing big data, or least it would appear so from the forums, blog posts and media articles currently appearing on the Web. But big data solutions are expensive and require investment in human resources and technology, which not every enterprise has the resources to do. So how widespread is big data adoption? Open source integration specialist, Talend went to the market to find out and came back with some interesting results.

The Chief Marketing Officer Myth
Despite what many say, the CMO is not becoming the dominant enterprise software buyer -- the CIO will keep this crown.

Marketing automation platforms help marketers develop 1:1 relationships at broadcast scale. Here's a look at how 5 successful marketing automation strategies.

Intranet Governance is Key
As Intranets grow in complexity, the importance of Intranet governance is gaining popularity.

Big Data for Everyone
It's been quite a week for big data with Hadoop headlines galore. Check out news from Intel, EMC and Cloudera. These are groundbreaking approaches to once mind-numbing tasks.

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• Mar 08 -- SXSW Interactive Austin 2013
• Mar 20 -- Content Strategies Summit
• Mar 20 -- SharePoint Conference for Business Users
• Apr 18 -- Forrester's Forum for Marketing Leadership Professionals Los Angeles
• Apr 29 -- Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit San Diego

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• Director of Cultural Capital in California at Mozilla
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What good is the best Hadoop solution if it becomes unavailable when Enterprises users most need it? Not much, is the obvious answer. For Enterprises who use, or plan to use, Hadoop for mission critical applications that presents a real problem.

In case you've been sleeping under a rock, yesterday afternoon Intel announced that it has developed its own distribution of Apache Hadoop, The Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop. What’s different about it, as compared to other Hadoop vendors (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, EMC’s Pivotal HD, HP’s, IBM’s and WANdisco’s -- did I miss any?), is that it’s built from the silicon up which should give it an edge in delivering performance and scalability. 

Give a dozen Fortune 100 CIO’s a few scotches (or truth serum if they don’t drink), then ask them how many Big Data Apps they’re running. The likely answer will be “not a one.” 

Every Hadoop vendor wants to be king of the Enterprise. Why? Because that’s where the money is.

The earth may rattle and jaws may drop in Silicon Valley this afternoon when EMC Greenplum introduces Pivotal HD, the world’s most powerful Hadoop distribution in history. (The latter according to EMC Greenplum).

Further evidence that big data is going mainstream is the announcement from Hortonworks that its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDPW) is available in beta, making it the first Apache Hadoop distribution that is available for both Windows and Linux.

Exponential growth of customer data, and the difficulties most marketers have in keeping up with that growth, are creating a situation where marketers are “data-rich and insight-poor.” Findings of a new survey from Infogroup Targeting Solutions and Yesmail Interactive indicate that during 2013, marketers plan to increase spending and hiring to help keep pace with the explosion of customer data and turn it into actionable insight.