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Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight

Posted April 25, 2013 - 12:25 pm

In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built.
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Big data beats mobile and cloud as expected growth driver

Posted April 24, 2013 - 2:30 pm

A new KPMG survey shows shifting priorities but also growing concern with long-term worries like security
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Business students to get HP-designed technical course for cloud, mobile, security issues

Posted April 23, 2013 - 9:19 pm

College business students need to gain a grasp of technical issues related to cloud computing, big data, security and other network issues they're likely to come across in their careers, so HP is now offering its first technical associate certification for them to cover these topics while in college.
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EMC tackles big data, cloud skills gap among IT business leaders

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:36 am

There's a shortage of executives and business leaders with the skills to manage big data and cloud teams. EMC is seeking to change that with a new series of courses.
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6 big data analytics use cases for healthcare IT

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:32 am

Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.
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Splice data scientist DNA into your existing team

Posted April 18, 2013 - 7:52 pm

Rather than trying to bring technologists up to speed on the business aspects that they may have little interest in, it might make more sense to train those who have business acumen or analytical abilities on tools that will enable them to gain greater insight into your data.
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Social data warehousing is worth the trouble

Posted April 18, 2013 - 11:18 am

Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.
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Don't have enough sources for breaking news? Try Wikipedia

Posted April 16, 2013 - 12:12 pm

The Wikipedia Live Monitor can identify breaking news stories almost as quickly - and more reliably - than social networks
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Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:25 am

The software program, called Savanna, will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service
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Try out your Hadoop app on the world's largest cluster

Posted April 12, 2013 - 3:43 pm

It isn't often that you can get access to a thousand-node network to test your latest Hadoop app, but thanks to the efforts of EMC's Greenplum unit and some additional computing vendors, you can. More amazingly, it is free of charge.
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Nebula - A turnkey private cloud brought to you by NASA

Posted April 12, 2013 - 8:00 am

What began as a NASA cloud computing project, and in partnership with Rackspace resulted in the OpenStack project, has now become a turnkey private cloud system for the enterprise. What this means is you can now buy an all-in-one solution to your organization's server needs and be up and running in no time.
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It is time to start doing something with all of that data: IBM

Posted April 11, 2013 - 6:31 pm

The data is there, but according to IBM business analytics and optimisation leader, Graham Kittle, it is what we do with it that counts.
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IRS's big data play built on shaky foundations

Posted April 11, 2013 - 10:04 am

The IRS is scaring taxpayers silly this season with boasts about its Big Data prowess and 'robo audits.' But recent reports suggest the agency is struggling to keep its IT operations afloat.
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Fake Twitter followers: One more thing Justin Bieber and Bill Gates have in common

Posted April 10, 2013 - 11:05 am

More followers on Twitter also means a higher percentage of your followers are probably fake accounts
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Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary, says French study

Posted April 9, 2013 - 6:54 pm

Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French government agencies.
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10 real-world big data deployments that will change our lives

Posted April 9, 2013 - 3:39 pm

The amount of data in the world is increasing exponentially, doubling every 18 months. Here are 10 real-world big data deployments you may not have realized were driven by big data.
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4 barriers stand between you and big data insight

Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:43 am

believing in the power of big data is one thing; leveraging big data for actionable insights is another.
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Who can tell me the significance of the ring?

Posted April 9, 2013 - 4:16 am

Who can tell me the significance of the ring?
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So you want to be a data scientist?

Posted April 8, 2013 - 11:15 am

Here's the scoop on one of the fastest growing and most talked-about roles in IT.
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MapR brings Hadoop support to Ubuntu

Posted April 4, 2013 - 10:45 am

Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has announced a new partnership with Canonical to package the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu.
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Does big data spell the end of business intelligence as we know it?

Posted April 2, 2013 - 1:54 pm

Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding.
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Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine

Posted April 2, 2013 - 11:21 am

Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical providers remain sluggish, with the industry slow to embrace the big-data movement.
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Dataguise introduces field-level encryption for Apache Hadoop database

Posted April 2, 2013 - 12:18 am

Dataguise says the latest version of its data-protection product enables users to encrypt sensitive data right down to specific fields within an open source Apache Hadoop database.
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Big cities deserve big databases -- and these places have 'em

Posted April 1, 2013 - 3:11 pm

Want to know how the sewer lines run in Philadelphia? Well, in case you change your mind, there's a database for that.
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5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

Posted April 1, 2013 - 10:47 am

Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay
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