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  • The Weekly Hash - December 21, 2012

    Posted December 21, 2012 - 12:13 pm

    A silly review of tech stories from this past week, today featuring the Dead Sea Scrolls going online, SpongeBob violating kids privacy and a Linday Lohan-inspired NASA mission

  • IT departments battle for data analytics talent

    Posted December 12, 2012 - 12:18 pm

    Few areas of the IT job market have seen the growth and disparity in supply and demand that the data analytics field has experienced. As big data continues to get bigger and the analytics field continues to mature, it's becoming a core part of business and the decision-making process. Competition for top analytic talent is going to be fierce as more companies enter the hiring fray.

  • Making big data smaller

    Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:49 pm

    MIT researchers develop a new approach to working with big data: reduce it to a size that can be managed and analyzed with conventional tools

  • 7 steps to big data success

    Posted December 9, 2012 - 4:27 pm

    Big data might not be the answer to all of our prayers, but it does represent an opportunity for IT to have a seat at the table and directly drive stronger revenues, market penetration and share of voice in an ever more competitive global marketplace. Here are 7 steps to big data success.

  • Big data, cheap storage bring in-memory analytics into spotlight

    Posted December 6, 2012 - 2:34 pm

    In-memory analytics, like virtualization and the cloud, is an old idea that's been given new life. In this case, the combination of big data, inexpensive commodity storage and parallel processing make it possible to analyze terabytes of data without slowing systems to a crawl.

  • Business analytics software helps sales team close the deal

    Posted December 3, 2012 - 2:36 pm

    At this health-benefits-management company, easy-to-use software lets salespeople quickly crunch data to boost their win rate

  • Federal government's big data efforts lagging

    Posted November 29, 2012 - 5:29 pm

    Facing contracting budgets and soaring data volumes and varieties, the feds should take a cue from the private sector and embrace big data technologies to better serve constituents.

  • Amazon's Redshift brings cheaper big data analytics to small businesses

    Posted November 28, 2012 - 9:59 pm

    Redshift, a new collection of cloud-based data warehousing and analytics services, promises an inexpensive alternative to on-premises big data solutions

  • Amazon launches cloud database with analytics tools, lowers S3 pricing

    Posted November 28, 2012 - 7:04 pm

    At its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent, Amazon Web Services today launched its newest cloud-based service, called Redshift. Meant to be a petabyte-scale data warehouse, AWS officials say Redshift allows businesses to drop their data warehousing costs by 10 times compared to on-premise systems.

  • Piwik software installer rigged with back door following website compromise

    Posted November 27, 2012 - 8:53 pm

    An unknown attacker inserted malicious code into the latest version of the Piwik open-source Web analytics software after compromising the project's website on Monday.

  • Boundary helps CIOs sleep better with cloud analytics features

    Posted November 27, 2012 - 10:01 am

    Boundary has added analytics features to its cloud monitoring service to give enterprises a better idea of how applications running on public clouds are performing and warn them when something starts to go wrong.

  • EMC shows the power of big data analytics

    Posted November 16, 2012 - 4:03 pm

    Your company is doomed to fail if 'the biggest jerk at the table' makes all the decisions in spite of comprehensive data analysis. EMC and its customers know that, and it's not a lesson you want to learn the hard way.

  • How big data will separate haves from have-nots

    Posted November 6, 2012 - 2:56 pm

    Walt Hauck, the straight-talking CIO of Dun & Bradstreet, says big data represents a corporate turning point this decade no less disruptive and revolutionary than the Internet in the 1990s.

  • Big data leading to new breed of service provider

    Posted November 1, 2012 - 11:40 am

    Big data is giving rise to a new breed of services aimed at helping over-burdened IT departments take on the challenges of data analytics without investing in additional infrastructure. And vendors of all sizes are getting in on the action.

  • Video

    Intel explains Big Data with cows, cats and monkeys

    Posted November 1, 2012 - 9:50 am

    How big is Big Data? Intel tells us via a cat video.

  • Political IT: How campaigns mine the Web - part 2

    Posted October 31, 2012 - 3:14 pm

    Thanks to the Web, social media and an exploding culture of sharing pretty much anything online, advocacy groups and political campaigns have unparalleled access to vast amounts of new and very detailed psychographic data on voters interests, hobbies, lifestyles and political leanings. (See "What politicians know about you" in part 1 of this series.) Organizations are grappling with how to best exploit these vast troves of unstructured data without getting burned.

  • EMC to buy web intelligence provider Silver Tail Systems

    Posted October 30, 2012 - 3:41 pm

    EMC has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis.

  • Campaign 2012: Mining for voters

    Posted October 29, 2012 - 9:12 am

    Big data, analytics and mobile apps are enabling smaller political campaigns and advocacy groups to be more effective when it comes to winning over voters and raising money.

  • Q&A: What's needed to get a big data job?

    Posted October 24, 2012 - 9:41 pm

    The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating thousands of new jobs, as Michael Rappa projected when he created the first master's degree program in the U.S. that's devoted to data analytics.

  • Hadoop updates from Cloudera, MapR, Splunk

    Posted October 24, 2012 - 9:18 am

    As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded use.

  • Can the government handle big data analytics?

    Posted October 22, 2012 - 3:16 pm

    You name it, the government has a pile of data about it: genomics, energy use, the weather and more. Various open data and big data initiatives at the federal government aim to make this information available to anyone who wants it. Can the inherent complexity of big data analytics and the promise of open government coexist?

  • SAS extends analytics support for unstructured data

    Posted October 13, 2012 - 9:06 pm

    SAS Institute this week unveiled tools it says it easier for its enterprise customers to use the company's business analytics software to analyze data stored in Hadoop environments.

  • How to use big data to stop customer churn

    Posted September 27, 2012 - 12:28 pm

    Your customer service representative answers a call from an irate customer. "This darn thing I bought just doesn't work!" he exclaims. "I've tried and tried to get help from your service folks, but they're always late and they can't fix it either. I've had it with you guys. I want my money back!"

  • Big data analytics computing requires a 'maverick fabric' network

    Posted September 25, 2012 - 5:34 pm

    The high-performance computing (HPC) scientific/academic sector is accustomed to using commodity server and storage clusters to deliver massive processing power, but comparable large-scale cluster deployments are now found in the high-end enterprise as well.

  • Social data doesn't have to be big data to be useful

    Posted September 25, 2012 - 12:48 pm

    Mention 'social data' or 'sentiment' these days and a conversation about big data is sure to follow, but you don't necessarily need a Hadoop cluster to leverage unstructured data--sometimes all you need is Twitter's native Search API.
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