San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Introduction of the expressor Enterprise Edition Brings Affordable Big Data Solutions to the Data Integration Market, further Solidifies expressor’s Price/Performance Leadership, and Addresses Needs of Demanding Data-centric Applications. (more)
arcplan Enterprise 7.2 Ready for Big Data
Enterprise Apps Today The new release from arcplan supports in-memory appliances used to analyze Big Data from SAP and Kognitio and also offers enhanced multi-tenancy to provide a foundation for cloud-based business intelligence. arcplan, a provider of business intelligence … (more)
Informatica World 2012 to Showcase How Companies Can Maximize Return on Big
Data MarketWatch (press release) The theme of this year’s conference is Maximizing Return on Big Data. Data integration industry veteran, Abbasi, will discuss thetransformation of the IT industry and the rise of bigdata. Abbasi will explore how the IT world is being reshaped bythe … (more)
TIBCO Delivers Breakthrough Software to Analyze Big Data in Motion
MarketWatch (press release) PALO ALTO, CA, Apr 09, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) today unveiled an industry-first technology for “big data” analysis that helps companies mine real-time digital, social and event streams together with business … (more)
IT contractors look for ‘big data’ opportunities
Washington Post The term with the most buzz these days for information technology contractors is =93big data,=94 or large chunks of information too huge to be easily managed by typical computer programs. The Obama administration announced late last month a new big data … (more)
UC Berkeley Tackles Big Data
The Bay Citizen No, it is not a tsunami, it is Big Data, the incomprehensibly large amount of raw, often real-time data that keeps piling up faster and faster from scientific research, social media, smartphones =97 virtually any activity that leaves a digital trace. (more)
Hadoop 2.0: MapReduce in its place, HDFS all grown-up
ZDNet (blog)By Andrew Brust | April 6, 2012, 6:00am PDT What are some of the cool
things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revampedMapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA)implementation of the Hadoop Distributed File …(more)
Crossing the Chasm Into Big Data
1to1 MediaWelcome to the world of Big Data. Those marketers who have already crossedthe big data chasm as early adopters are succeeding at this effort, andthey are reaping the rewards in the form of new and recurring revenuestreams. By making an investment in …(more)
Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for
Big …Environmental LeaderIt is testing out Hadoop for big data analytics. So far, the company’sin-house server infrastructure is 60 percent virtual, with another 40percent on physical servers for legacy applications that can’t be supportedon a virtual infrastructure.(more)
2000 public sector jobs could be created through ‘big data’ – Public …
Public sector could save billions and create thousands of jobs if it canmake use of big data over the next five years, says report.(more)
Data as seeds of content – O’Reilly Radar
Despite the attention big data has received in the media and among thetechnology community, it is surprising that we are still shortchanging thefull capabilities of what data can do for us. At times, we get caught up inthe excitement of the …(more)
High Scalability – High Scalability – Big Data Counting: How to count …
Big Data Counting: How to count a billion distinct objects using only 1.5KBof Memory. Date Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 9:15AM. This is a guest post byMatt Abrams (@abramsm), from Clearspring, discussing how they are able toaccurately …(more)
Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data From Industry and Academia Panel
Smart Data CollectiveAfter government executives announced 0ver $200 million in Big Datainitiatives last week, a panel of thought leaders from industry andacademia moderated by New York Times technology and innovation reporterSteve Lohr discussed the current state and …(more)
Using Big Data to Identify Anomalies
GovInfoSecurity.comWhen Current Analysis’ Bernt Ostergaard thinks about big data, it’semploying the massive amount of information to help secure informationsystems. “Big data not only allows you to collect the data, but also relateit to security events that you’re …(more)
Oracle Big Data – Financial Analyst Webcast
SYS-CON Media (press release)Please join Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, as he provides anupdate on Oracle’s Big Data offerings, including Oracle Big Data Appliance.Following a brief presentation, a question & answer session will be heldwith Kash Rangan from Bank of …(more)
Big data: analytics’ pot of gold
IT PROBut research by economists suggests that big data could do more, anddeliver a significant boost to the economy over the next five years. Thereis little point in IT building sophisticated new analytics tools, if thebusiness lacks the skills needed to …(more)
Fujitsu Technology Puts Big Data to Use in Minutes
MarketWatch (press release)Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has developed new paralleldistributed data processing technology that enables pools of big data aswell as continuous inflows of new data to be efficiently processed and putto use within minutes.(more)
Siemens PLM Introduces Big Data
Today’s Energy SolutionsHitachi Ltd. and Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. have reached a basic agreementon the assignment of… Centrosolar Canada’s newest photovoltaic moduledesigned specifically for the solar market to… Hitachi Ltd. has agreed tocollaborate with …(more)