Everyone is talking about the amazing insights big data can deliver, but simply having massive collections of data isn’t enough. Having big data without the ability to process it efficiently and properly is like having a warehouse full of ingredients but no ovens in which to create delicious products.Big data should earn its keep, and it can’t do that in […]
A large unstructured big volume data set; too complex to be handled by commonly used database management systems like RDBMS or DBMS is BIG Data. The size of the data stored in the world has exploded as it is constantly being gathered by various sources and these keep increasing too. The capacity of the world to store data doubles every […]
How Zynga uses Big Data to ensure new game success | #HPBigData2014 Rose Meadows | August 22ndREAD MOREIn gaming, analysis is critical and needs to take place in real-time. You would think the pressure of real-time analytics would cause stress for something as complex as video gaming, but that’s not the case with Zynga. At Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica Big Data […]
Prediction: First billion dollar Big Data company will be a practitioner | #HPBigData2014 Rose Meadows | August 21stREAD MOREWith increasing attention on the business side of tech innovation, the world seems to be awaiting the rise of the first billion-dollar Big Data company. A recent $50 million dollar investment from Hewlett-Packard (HP) put Hortonworks a step forward in its goal […]
For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords across all industries.Big data is the term used to describe the process of analyzing complex set of data sets to discover information that could help make better decisions or find certain patterns that were previously unknown.For example, Amazon is able to recommend products based on your previous buying patterns. […]
NZ stocks rise, Fletcher, Trade Me gainPublished: 7:29PM Wednesday August 20, 2014 Source: BusinessDeskEmail this article
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New Zealand shares rose as Fletcher Building and Trade Me Group beat full-year profit guidance.Energy companies fell on weaker political polls ahead of next month’s election.The NZX 50 Index rose 26.126 points, or […]
Gartner’s Hype Cycle: Big Data’s on the slippery slope Mike Wheatley | August 19thREAD MOREGartner has just released its annual Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and it shows some interesting moves for two of the most important enterprise technologies – Big Data and the cloud. Organizations that make use of these technologies might therefore need to brace themselves as their […]
Most ‘big data’ marketing is a waste of time, and here’s whyUsing big data to look at past trends is not the best way to work out what your customers want, argues Peter Swan of the UNSW Australia Business School in this cross-posting from The Conversation.A passer-by happens upon a drunk searching for a lost wallet under a streetlight. With nothing in […]
Mark Lennihan/APYale Professor Robert J. Shiller has a new piece examining the market up at The New York Times in which he notes that stocks are indeed expensive:The United States stock market looks very expensive right now. The CAPE ratio, a stock-price measure I helped develop — is hovering at a worrisome level.I wrote with some concern about the high […]
Big Data has reached the point at which performance matters as much as the technology, according to Chris Selland, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica group. Conversations and experiences at the HP Vertica conference underscore to Selland that the Big Data marketplace is shifting towards placing greater emphasis on enterprise-class performance. He discussed these changes with […]
