As 2013 winds down, it’s only natural for people to make personal New Year’s resolutions for 2014. It’s also a perfect time for technology industry predictions. This is the first installation in our multi-part “Technology Predictions for 2014″ series in which industry providers—from Big Data to cloud to mobile—share their predictions about the hot tech trends that will take center […]
In his latest appearance on theCUBE at last week’s Discover summit in Barcelona, Colin Mahony, VP and GM of HP Vertica, shared how the database maker fits into Hewlett-Packard’s analytics strategy.After being acquired by HP in March 2011, Vertica gained access to hardware, service expertise and channel resources that enabled it to expand into global markets, Mahoney tells hosts John […]
Growing Big Data adoption is driving new use cases for gathering, processing and communicating information, as Hewlett-Packard demonstrated this week at its Barcelona conference. The technology titan took the wrapper off HP Earth Insights, a highly specialized analytics solution that lets ecologists work faster and more efficiently.The offering runs a custom dashboarding solution called the Wildlife Picture Index Analytics System […]
My friends on Wall Street and Sand Hill Road will likely place a number of bets on big data security analytics in 2014. Good strategy as this market category should get loads of hype and visibility while vendor sales managers build a very healthy sales pipelines by March. Yup, there should be plenty of opportunities for big data security […]
Verint Systems, Inc. (VRNT), the software applications provider, is up 39% year-to-date. The share price formed a base above $25 during 2011 and 2012 and is now heading towards the $50 level. Verint is in the Enterprise Intelligence and Communications Intelligence business, Big Data.VRNT data by YChartsUnlike its peer, Splunk Inc (SPLK), Verint is priced reasonably. I estimate that it […]
When it comes to Big Data, it’s “one thing to be able to query it, but it’s another thing to be able to actually ask that data meaningful questions,” according to Revolution Analytics head of marketing and community David Smith. The executive dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent Big Data NYC 2013 summit to discuss how his firm is helping […]
Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. It’s built on Apache Lucene search engine library and provides full text search capabilities, multi-language support, a query language, support for geolocation, context aware did-you-mean suggestions, autocomplete and search snippets.Elasticsearch supports RESTful API using JSON over HTTP for all of its operations, whether it’s search, analytics […]
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The whole point of investing in Big Data is to drive the development of a new generation of data-driven applications. The challenge most organizations will face is that once they build those applications they will need to have a robust set of APIs through which to share the information those applications create.While it’s still early days in terms of the […]
