blogs.hbr.org (blog) Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley. From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. And … (more)
Should Big Data Businesses Be Forced to Prevent Hacking?
Xconomy We live in a world where, thanks to the combination of technologies such as Hadoop and NoSQL with big data service providers, companies can now store and analyze most, if not all, of their data. (Previously companies could store and analyze only a … (more)
Big Data software startup MapR Technologies raises $30M
Silicon Valley Business Journal MapR Technologies, a startup that sells versions of open source Hadoop software used in Big data analysis, disclosed on Monday that it has raised $30 million in venture funds. The San Jose company led by CEO John Schroeder said in a press release that … (more)
Tech Makes Big Data Useful — Lots Of Data Analysts Still Needed — SAS
Forbes Although technology companies like Teradata and SAS are making data easier to use, business will need well-educated analysts for years to come, according to Jerry Oglesby, senior director for global academic and certification programs at SAS, the … (more)
McKenney’s and Splunk Bring Big Data Spotlight … – Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: Splunk Inc. , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that McKenney’s Inc., in a speech at the … (more)
Bigger Ideas Need Big Data | Inside Investing
By Eben Esterhuizen, CFA
Editor’s note: to coincide with the launch of our future of finance project, we are showcasing the thinking of a select group that is actively working to build next-generation financial products and services. This series will run all week, and we … (more)
Windows Azure Adds Support For PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop …
By Alex Williams
Windows Azure has added new support for a number of services including PhoneGap, Dropbox and Hadoop. According to a blog post by Scott Guthrie, a corporat.. (more)
Finding a mission for Big Data | TechRepublic
By Mary Shacklett
Today governments at all levels, financial services companies, healthcare providers and utility and telecommunications companies are all starting to g. (more)
Windows Azure: New Hadoop service + HTML5/JS (CORS …
By ScottGu
NET Portable Library support; Web Sites: Mercurial Source Control + Dropbox Deployment support; HDInsight: New service that enables you to easily deploy and manage Hadoop Clusters on Azure. All of these improvements are now … (more)
Big Data Brokers: They Know Everything About You and Sell it to the …
By Lois Beckett – Pro Publica
Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you’re pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you … (more)
Tagrem Obtains Certified Assuria Education Partner Status
PR Web Providing a complete vulnerability and log management solution specific to … Our Vulnerability Scanning and Log Management Educational Program will help … (more)
Data science code of conduct, Evgeny Morozov | mathbabe
By Cathy O’Neil, mathbabe
First, a proposed Data Science Code of Professional Conduct. I don’t know anything about the guys at Rose Business Technologies who wrote it except that they’re from Boulder Colorado and have had lots of fancy consulting gigs. But I am … (more)
KEYW plans to double revenue in face of sequester
CapitalGazette.com Joe Gottlieb, CEO of Sensage Inc., which was acquired by KEYW last year, said Project G received a positive response during a recent information security … (more)
Security Implications Of Big Data Strategies
Dark Reading When trying to get a handle on big data, it’s helpful to consider it more an idea than a specific size or technology. In its simplest terms, the big data phenomenon is driven by the intersection of three trends: mountains of data that contain valuable … (more)
9 Strategies for Leveraging Big Data in the Healthcare Industry
HIT Consultant iHT2 report identifies strategies for leveraging big data in the healthcare industry necessary to generate real insights that can benefit the health system. The health care industry can potentially realize $300 billion in annual value by leveraging big … (more)
In battle for Hadoop, MapR raises $30M
GigaOM There’s a lot of positioning within the Hadoop community over who has the most contributors to Apache Hadoop and whose distribution is the most open source. Depending on the source, MapR might be singled out as the antithesis of what Hadoop should be … (more)
Data Scientist jobs – Dice.com
We have two locations for the Data Scientist position.One is in Hartford,CT and the other being Sunnyvale,CA.Consultant should be interested in working for any … (more)
4 Steps to Turning Big Data into Business Impact
Forbes If information architecture (Big Data or small) talent is not present in your organization, then it will serve you well to hire external consultants to design the information flow and then your internal team can execute against that. Having said that … (more)
Hadoop distie MapR trousers another $30m to take on big data rivals
Register MapR Technologies, one of the commercializers of the Hadoop big data muncher, has pocketed another $30m to help it ramp up its business and keep it on track for what the company hopes will be an initial public offering.. While Cloudera was out of the … (more)