Big data is no longer just the domain of big companies. As the perception of big data moves from futuristic hype to real-world opportunity, the promise of improved decision making, increased operational efficiency and new revenue streams has more organizations actively engaging in data analysis projects than ever before. That no longer only means more enterprise organizations, either. Midmarket companies […]
Couchbase, provider of a NoSQL database for storing and delivering several kinds of data at scale, announced today a substantial $60 million funding round, one that could help the startup’s technology become more widely used.With roots in the open-source CouchDB database, Couchbase stores data in JSON documents. This has caught on as an alternative to the relational style of databases that […]
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]]>Big data is coming to the rescue in stopping fraud in wire transfers, according to Western Union’s chief information officer.David Thompson, CIO and executive vice president of global operations and technology, said in a fireside chat at VentureBeat’s DataBeat 2014 conference that the company has to tap massive databases to sort through customer information and figure out the […]
Our thanks to The Why Files for permission to republish this post.Data can be a drag. Whether you work in weather, satellite surveillance, astronomy, or particle physics, data is stacking up. Even as hard disks get larger and cheaper, some say DNA, the information reservoir of life, could offer a dramatically better storage mechanism.Because DNA contains four letters—A, C, G, […]
