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)
Marketing, Big Data Tech IPOs Get Rousing Market Welcome – E-Commerce Times
E-Commerce Times Marketo and Tableau Software are having strong launches as public companies, indicating investors are excited about the growth in enterprise software markets that target niches such as Big Data and marketing automation. Tableau Software, which designs … (more)
Alteryx Raises $12 Million to Put Big Data Analytics in the Hands of All …
Sacramento Bee “Alteryx is enabling our customers to Humanize Big Data and answer the critical business questions that can accelerate their growth,” said Dean Stoecker, chairman and chief executive officer at Alteryx. “But to find these answers, business analysts … (more)
Software AG’s Terracotta backs symposium on big data’s potential for the …
Al-Bawaba Terracotta Inc., a leading developer of in-memory technology and a wholly-owned subsidiary of enterprise software specialist Software AG, lent its full support to the Big Data Symposium held today (May 20, 2013) at the Habtoor Grand in Dubai. (more)
Critics of big data have overlooked the speed factor
The Guardian (blog) Big data is among the computing neologisms du jour, and a technology conference in 2013 is rarely considered complete without a smattering of uses, typically accompanied by further volume-related qualifiers (tsunamis of big data being by far the worst … (more)
IBM Analytics Help Arad Group Manage Big Data for Water Meter Solutions
Stockhouse Big Data and analytics technology helps clients harness the explosion of data coming from a growing number of resources — including data collected from utility meter readings and sensors. Arad Group is working with IBM to integrate the latest … (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 Enables Companies and Researchers to Look into the …
Forget Big Brother. Companies and countries are discovering that algorithms programmed to scour vast quantities of data can be much more powerful. They can … (more)
Avnet, HP team up on big data practice – SearchITChannel.com – TechTarget
TechTarget With the worldwide big data technology and services market forecast to grow at a 31.7% compound annual growth rate and revenues projected to reach $23.8 billion in 2016, according to recent IDC research, Avnet Technology Solutions and Hewlett-Packard … (more)
Digital Marketing Briefs: Big Data with Lattice Engines, Live Video
Marketing … CMSWire Lattice Engines, a Big Data solutions provider has released its new Big Data analytics platform: salesPRISM. Lattice has found that a lot of other analytics and Big Data solutions only provide information from a single, specified time frame, but … (more)
Glassbeam Inc. Named Lightning Round Winner for Big Data Track for
TiEcon … San Francisco Chronicle Glassbeam Inc., the leading provider of Big Data applications for machine data analytics, announced today that it has been named one of the Lightning Round winners for Big Data track of TiEcon 2013. Lightning Round winners are recognized for their … (more)
GUEST COMMENT: Big Data and marketing attribution reveal the bigger picture
InternetRetailing.net Big Data is a term applied to describe data sets whose size exceeds the ability of software tools to capture, manage and process information within a reasonable time frame. The size of Big Data can range from a few dozen terabytes to multiple petabytes … (more)
HP teams up with SAP to release Kraken in-memory big data system
V3.co.uk Designed for real-time data analysis, the Kraken systems will target the retail, finance and government sectors as big data analysis systems for platforms such as CRM and inventory management. Built with HP hardware, the system runs on 16 Intel Xeon … (more)
Survey: Big Data, Cloud Drive White Hot Use of In-Memory Databases
Integration Developers Cloud and big data projects are driving a white hot adoption of in-memory databases, according to a survey just released by Evans Data Corp. a leading dev researcher. The number of devs using in-memory DBs is up 40 percent since just last fall and the … (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)
EMC urges colleges to create ‘Big Data’ courses
Irish Examiner Jason Ward, EMC’s Director for Ireland, Scotland and UK North, said IT analysts Gartner have predicted that, by 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support ‘Big Data’. Mr Ward said: “There is a challenge – a shortage of talent … (more)
Google+ Redesign | Big Data and Photos | SmartData Collective
By Todd Nevins
Data analytics and design are being integrated together with the Google+ redesign, but will it be enough for us to add another social network into our lives? (more)