A sensible approach to big data

Network World Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social … (more)

Making Hadoop Elephants Drink From Silverlake

IT Jungle In last week’s issue, I talked generally about big data and the use of tools like the Hadoop big data muncher created by Yahoo to emulate the very early unstructured data processing and related file system created by Google to power its search engine. (more)

Linfox crunches big data to keep trucks on time

iT News Logistics giant Linfox is embarking on a big data-crunching exercise that will give its control centres the ability to predict hazards and help drivers navigate around them. The company is using a SAP HANA in-memory analytics database engine to crawl … (more)

Big Data Collides with Market Research

Innovation Excellence (blog) Wikibon.org also cites an IDC study forecasting the big data market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion globally in 2015. The multi-billion dollar question is this: with players such as IBM, Accenture, SAP, and Microsoft … (more)

Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk

CSO But it was data that solved the problem — Big Data analytics. Fite said BT had effective tools to investigate the crimes, but wasn’t using them to full advantage. It had multiple sensor networks that could tell when people were on tracks or on cables … (more)