IBM Unveils New POWER8 Systems, Built for Big Data | Data Center …

IBM unveiled new Power Systems servers Wednesday, leveraging POWER8 technology for a new era of big data and open innovation. Through the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM also released detailed technical specifications for its POWER8 processor, inviting collaborators and competitors alike to innovate on the processor and server platform.The new scale-out IBM Power Systems servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment, three-plus years of development and […]

Active Archiving with Big Data – Cisco Blog

Historical data is now an essential tool for businesses as they struggle to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, manage risk and perform predictive analytics that help improve business outcomes. While recent data is readily accessible in operational systems and some summarized historical data available in the data warehouse, the traditional practice of archiving older, detail-level data on tape makes analysis […]

Planning professor-turned-entrepreneur to help SF tackle urban …

BERKELEY — Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.His high-tech startup “Synthicity” has been chosen from a field of nearly 200 applicants as one of San Francisco’s six new […]

Big data at school: Open learning | The Economist

Here is my mini list of critical education skills for the 21st Century:-Fluency in English, one European language AND Mandarin(the last language will enable you to write your own ticket internationally with any Mega Global Conglomerate)-BA in a STEM Field-Expertise in Statistics and Familiarity with Scientific Literature-Know the difference between healthy skepticism of an internet article and naivity.-Ability to Mine […]

Datameer Update Brings Instant Visualization To Big Data Analytics …

Datameer’s latest update has an interesting twist, literally. As you can see by the GIF above, as you work with data in Datameer’s analytics tool, when you click a button, the screen turns revealing a visualization of the data on-screen in real time.If you see a mistake, explained Datameer CEO Stefan Groschupf, you can turn it again, adjust your data and then […]

Why Focusing on Valuable Data—not Big Data—can Help Boost …

Big Data has been all the rage. But fast data, even if it is small, can be more valuable than complicated masses of information.Here’s why: All the focus on “bigger is better” has overlooked the fact that most Big Data segments have not been validated with a business application or value.Instead, for marketers looking to make an impact by the […]

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Big Data Startup Frrole Raises $245K Angel Round, As …

Frrole, a big data startup that specializes in Twitter-based analytics, has raised $245K in Angel funding from investors including Sharad Sharma (former head of Yahoo! R&D centre in india), Google’s India MD Rajan Anandan and Eka Software founder Manav Garg.Based in Bangalore, the startup raised this capital on LetsVenture, a crowd funding platform launched last year to help Indian startups […]

Next The Economist explains: The backlash against big data

“BOLLOCKS”, says a Cambridge professor. “Hubris,” write researchers at Harvard. “Big data is bullshit,” proclaims Obama’s reelection chief number-cruncher. A few years ago almost no one had heard of “big data”. Today it’s hard to avoid—and as a result, the digerati love to condemn it. Wired, Time, Harvard Business Review and other publications are falling over themselves to dance on […]

Previous The Economist explains: The backlash against big data

“BOLLOCKS”, says a Cambridge professor. “Hubris,” write researchers at Harvard. “Big data is bullshit,” proclaims Obama’s reelection chief number-cruncher. A few years ago almost no one had heard of “big data”. Today it’s hard to avoid—and as a result, the digerati love to condemn it. Wired, Time, Harvard Business Review and other publications are falling over themselves to dance on […]