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Pivotal's 2 New Big Data Advancements: GemFire XD and Data …

Pivotal continues to churn out new, important solutions that are helping companies make better use of big data. This week, we have 2 major announcements that will help Hadoop distributions deal with real-time transactional data more effectively and to provision any kind of big data sets, including data from Hadoop, MPP, flat files or a legacy database. The new solutions […]

Topsy | Can social sentiment predict the success of the new iPhone?

Speculation is flying this week as Apple gears up to make its much-anticipated announcement on Tuesday, September 10. Will iPhones come in new colors? Will there be a low-cost version? Will it scan your fingerprints?
We won’t know for sure until tomorrow. But for Apple shareholders, those questions are minor details compared to the real issue: Will the new iPhone sell?
This […]

Why big data means job growth for non-data professionals …

Big data is everywhere, being generated by people using transactional tools, social media and collaboration tools, as well as pouring in from applications, log files and machines. Recognizing its potential to analyze and predict trends, enterprises want at this data. The problem is, there just aren’t enough skilled professionals adept at transforming this data into business insights — and we’re […]

StockTwits Review – The Twitter Of Stock Investing, Only Better …

>>” alt=”StockTwits – Just ask what’s going on and you’ll get an answer in seconds >>>” src=”http://www.naation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/StockTwits-aapl-Share-Ideas-Learn-from-Passionate-Investors-Traders.png” width=”640″ height=”513″/>StockTwits – Just ask what’s going on and you’ll get an answer in seconds >>>StockTwits is a short messaging social network just like Twitter, but totally adapted to the needs of stock investors and traders to manage the minute by minute flow […]

BigData-Startups | T-Mobile USA cuts downs churn rate by 50% in …

Print PDFTelecom organisations are known from collecting massive amounts of data. Everything that customers are doing is registered: how long and when people call, direct messaging peaks, internet usage and so on. These are just some of the metrics being captured and if you have 33 million customers, as T-Mobile USA does, we are talking serious big data. Strangely enough, […]