Big Data

New AWS Test Drives – Big Data, Security, Microsoft, and More

The AWS Test Drives give you direct and easy access to a wide variety of enterprise solution stacks, all hosted on the AWS Cloud. These labs are available to you to run for a half-day evaluation period at no charge. Each test drive includes a guided video tour and a lab manual, so you will be up and running in […]

QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More Useful – Wired …

QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More UsefulNovember 12, 2013, 5:06 pmBy Lawrence BiemillerNew York University is teaming up with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington on a five-year effort to help researchers take advantage of ever-increasing amounts of information by improving both data management and data analysis. The project, slated to cost […]

Big grant for big data at UW | Brier Dudley's blog | Seattle Times

The University of Washington is one of three schools across the country sharing a major grant to spread ”big data” analysis skills beyond computer science and apply them to other fields.The UW’s share of the five-year, $38 million grant will build up the school’s eScience Institute and Center for Statistics and Social Sciences. It is funding five data scientists, four postdoctoral data […]

Who's Getting Rich In The Big Data Gold Rush? – ReadWrite

We’re in the midst of a Big Data Gold Rush, with VCs throwing cash at anyone and everyone with a Big Data idea. But as Cowen & Co. analyst Peter Goldmacher posits, the Big Data financial opportunity has three phases, with Big Data users, not vendors, standing to make the most money in Big Data’s third and final phase.
Big Data’s […]

Futurelytics Gets $800K From Index And More So That Small …

Big data analytics has given large enterprises a way of analysing historical and real-time data to monitor their business’ performance, and to better predict what might happen next. Now, a startup out of central Europe called Futurelytics is hoping to be one of the leaders in the third piece of the big data puzzle: prescriptive analytics, or how to use […]

ShermansTravel Adopts Big Data, Taps Lotame | Lotame

Tyler Loechner of MediaPost shared the news of our new partnership with ShermansTravel today. Click here to see the original on Mediapost or read below.  ShermansTravel Media has selected Lotame as their data management platform (DMP). The partnership comes at a time when travel marketers are increasingly adopting Big Data and programmatic targeting. ShermansTravel will use the platform to manage its […]