For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn’t necessarily useful data. All the analysis in the world isn’t helpful if, in the end, you can’t figure out what your data actually indicates. Gleaning information by interpreting and recognizing patterns in the data, and then deciding on a course of action, is sort of hard. […]
We’ve heard how Big Data is transforming various industries, and how it can affect the fortunes of big businesses, but very few actually specify how Big Data is transforming the world and people’s lives.To illustrate this, WhoIsHostingThis.com has created an infographic that explores the “Top 7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020″. Though the infographic is pertaining […]
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 […]
TweetThe theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP Bullhound predicted that some of the most exciting developments are in the fields of Predictive Analytics and Advanced Visualization.The “Exabyte […]
HP Restructures Big Data Analytics with Expanded Vertica Analytics PlatformCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — HP today announced enhancements to the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, enabling organizations to accelerate business value from a vastly expanded variety of data.Version 7 of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, also called HP Vertica Crane, dramatically simplifies the exploration and analysis of semistructured and “dark” data,(1) provides enhanced […]
I am excited to launch our new Data Science and Big Data Track. This is the first Data Science and Big Data curriculum built directly with industry pioneers. You can learn the latest techniques, tools, and concepts developed at the companies that made Big Data big.
Our first class in this track, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, is available immediately. This […]
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance, Adds Cloudera
November 13th, 2013
By: John Rath
Oracle gives a storage and Cloudera boost to its big data appliance, Alcatel-Lucent helps uncover mobile analytics, and CA ERwin bridges the big data gap in the enterprise.
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance
Oracle (ORCL) announced that Big Data Appliance X4-2 is now available, providing enterprises with a comprehensive and secure engineered […]
For all its vaunted importance to large companies, working with big data is kind of hard. Everybody sort of gets the point: Mine huge troves of data gathered over time through the course of normal business operations, and eventually you get to recognize patterns that turn into new insights that, in turn, can lead to changes that either make or […]
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 […]
We produced this list as an aid to the enterprise CTO seeking information on the most capable mission-enabling infrastructure technologies. This is a companion piece to our list of the top analytical technologists on our Analyst One website. Our methodologies are at the bottom of this list.We trust you will find this list interesting and informative. Have some new technologies […]
