Big Data

DataTorrent, A Big Data Platform Built On Hadoop, Can Process A …

DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time.According to Phu Hoang, co-founder of the company, who was one of the first engineers at Yahoo! hired in 1996, the product can process more than a billion data events per second. Prior to […]

HP Intros Big Data-Based IT Service Management SaaS and …

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HP Launches Big Data-Based IT Service Management Solutions
by Jason Verge on June 3, 2014

HP has introduced service management offerings that leverage big data generated in customer IT ecosystems. The announcement included a Software-as-a-Service service desk offering called Service Anywhere and Propel, a solution for building enterprise service catalogs, enabling IT organizations […]

Big Data trends intensify storage business boom – DigiTimes

Big Data trends intensify storage business boomStaff writer, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Tuesday 3 June 2014]The cumulative amount of data produced worldwide is predicted to reach 40ZB by 2020, which is 50 times more than that of 2010 according to preliminary estimates. That means the amount of storage data will double once every two years, and the era of the unprecedented digital […]

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Big Data and TV shows (Video) | Re …

Netflix has more than 48 million subscribers, and it knows a ton about all of them: What they watch, when they watch, when they stop watching.Netflix uses all of that data to help it pick and fund shows, like “House of Cards”, and to help promote different shows to different people. But it insists that it won’t use all of […]

Practical Big Data – Survey Magazine

Five Reasons Why Big Researchers Should Lead in Big DataBig Data is getting bigger. The Information Age is chugging on, creating vast swathes of rich data on all facets of private and business life. In its wake, the world is coming to terms with what this means in terms of potential and practicality. This new world offers so much opportunity, […]

How big data is providing pearls of wisdom for Tasmanian oyster …

It takes human senses to appreciate the wonders of Australia’s natural environment. But it is machine intelligence that may prove critical to our ability to manage it.Numerous projects around Australia are now using advanced data analytics techniques (also known as big data) to better understand and manage the complexity of natural systems. Modern analytical techniques – particularly the capability to […]

Big Data for Executives 2014: Day 2 Highlights – KDnuggets

Highlights from the presentations by Big Data experts from McKinsey Solutions, SAP, Techfetch, Weather Analytics on Day 2 of Big Data for Executives 2014. By Anmol Rajpurohit (@hey_anmol), May 29, 2014.Big Data for Executives 2014 was a two-day event organized by Global Big Data Conference on May 5-6, 2014 specifically for the decision-making executives, and it addressed various questions […]

Substantial Upside For Big Data Vendor Teradata Corp. – Teradata …

SummaryTeradata has attractive valuation with low risk of permanent capital loss.

The company has a moat surrounding its business due to high customer switching costs.

There is no indication that […]

How big data is helping to prevent suicides

Big data isn’t just about finding more effective ways to market and advertise — it’s also about making the world a better place.One of the industries in which big data is having its greatest impact is health care. So many improvements are being made with better results in hospitals and healthcare facilities across the world. One area, however, that continues […]