We’ve been hearing a great deal about the power of Big Data over the last couple of years. The hype says that as we gather more data, we will be able to get better answers to business problems, but the data levels we have seen so far could pale in comparison to what happens when we start adding sensors to the world. […]
RALEIGH, N.C. – To make the most money coming out of a North Carolina university, study nuclear engineering and you’ll earn almost $90,000 a year. To make the least, study dramatic theater and earn $10,400.Amid the sluggish economic recovery, many families are wondering how best to make their increasingly expensive investment in college pay off. North Carolina’s public universities and […]
With all the current hype, be careful not to fall for any of these Big Data myths.Much of the conversation about Big Data surrounds the topic of its actual collection, but unless both your internal and external users can easily consume data, it is worthless.I was talking with Michel Guillet of Juice Analytics, a provider of products and services that make […]
This week in DevOps shows big data and and DevOps are two of the latest IT trends to intersect–and just as with BI and big data, they unlock new potential for organizations when leveraged together.XpoLog continues to build log analytics software for applications on a variety of infrastructures in DevOps and production support using Hadoop. GigaSpaces Technologies continues to innovate […]
Of course, Google has been busy. In the past few years, researchers have cooked up a complex and powerful new data-warehousing system called Mesa.Mesa was born out of Google’s core business: Internet advertising. To serve its advertising customers and internal needs, Google collects detailed information about a given ad, and it has to record and process that data in real […]
The Internet of Things is coming—are you ready? As Big Think reported recently in our interview with leading economist Jeremy Rifkin, the Internet of Things will connect everyone and everything in a seamless network. How will it intersect with Big Data?Chris Curran, the Chief Technologist of PwC, spoke to Big Think about this great technological shift:
Most of the data we […]
Red Hat last month released the latest version of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, their object and block storage product based on the upstream open source Ceph project. It’s notable not only as the first release since Red Hat acquired the two-year-old startup, Inktank, in April, but also for two key features that help open up a new market for Ceph.While Ceph […]
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from Aviva, Canadian Imperial Bank, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and University Health Network on day 2 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 7, 2014.As many organizations are now working with unmanageably large data sets, the importance of using and maintaining an analytics platform which […]
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July 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Twitter buys Madbits, WalmartLabs buys Luvocracy, Zillow buys Trulia, Apple buys Booklamp, Yahoo buys Flurry, Salesforce buys RelateIQ, Couchbase, GE, Databricks, and more. By Gregory Piatetsky, Aug 7, […]
California is currently in the grips of a major drought, one of the worst of this generation. The region’s lack of precipitation has not only hindered California’s agricultural industry, it’s also turned our forests into tinder. But researchers at the University of California San Diego have a potential solution: just wire up all the trees to the Internet of Things.Wildfires […]
