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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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HortonWorks: The Hadoop company everyone wants to be best friends with now

Posted March 28, 2013 - 3:45 pm

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it's been powered almost entirely by Hadoop.
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Big Data Success Is All in the Analysis

Posted March 25, 2013 - 3:41 pm

IT executives are starting to realize that there's little value in big data without robust analytics systems that can crunch the numbers and give key decision makers (read: their bosses) easy-to-digest information. With so few real solutions on the market, though, this is easier said than done.
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The government running Google? What could possibly go wrong?

Posted March 25, 2013 - 11:35 am

Are Google’s products and services becoming a critical infrastructure that the government should ensure survives?
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How smart crowds are solving big data problems

Posted March 22, 2013 - 3:33 pm

Businesses and government agencies are using data science crowdsourced sites, such as Kaggle, to solve real problems.
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The Weekly Hash - March 22, 2013

Posted March 22, 2013 - 9:22 am

Searching from the top of the world to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to bring you - and make fun of - this week’s top tech stories
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NoSQL showdown: MongoDB vs. Couchbase

Posted March 21, 2013 - 2:14 pm

MongoDB edges Couchbase Server with richer querying and indexing options, as well as superior ease-of-use
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Big Data: Not just for baseball anymore

Posted March 21, 2013 - 11:56 am

Basketball- and soccer and hockey and even mixed martial arts - are catching up to baseball in the use of Big Data and analytics
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Tableau applies business intelligence to cloud data

Posted March 21, 2013 - 9:02 am

Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software has updated its namesake software with additional tools for connecting to the sources of data in the cloud.
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Oracle's new software, cloud revenue dropped 2 percent in Q3

Posted March 20, 2013 - 4:56 pm

Oracle's total revenue dipped 1 percent and profits remained almost flat in its most recent quarter, as revenue from new software licenses and cloud services dropped by 2 percent.
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Data-driven companies outperform competitors financially

Posted March 20, 2013 - 11:12 am

Working with and making business decisions based on data is good for your company's bottom line.
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Big Security for Big Data

Posted March 19, 2013 - 10:00 pm

The multitude of devices, users, and generated traffic create a proliferation of data that is being created with incredible volume, velocity, and variety. As a result, organizations need a way to protect, utilize, and gain insight from "big data."
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Where cloud is going: Service as a service

Posted March 19, 2013 - 8:47 pm

As big players like Xerox expand their capabilities, businesses of all sizes will have more choices of cloud services
Microsoft boosts Dynamics CRM with marketing, social media analysis

Posted March 19, 2013 - 12:13 pm

Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM (customer relationship management) software market by linking its own Dynamics CRM application with new capabilities for marketing automation and social media analysis.
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MongoDB refines load balancing

Posted March 19, 2013 - 10:09 am

Following the tradition set by recent versions, the new release of the MongoDB NoSQL data store comes with a batch of new features designed to appeal to the enterprise market, including a new built-in search engine, more support for geospatial data and the ability to balance workloads across multiple servers more effectively.
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Twitter gives small businesses more advertising options

Posted March 18, 2013 - 8:17 pm

Twitter is beefing up its self-service ad platform to give smaller businesses more targeting and analytics tools to reach potential customers on the site.
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Big data roadblocks will slow driverless cars until 2040, analyst says

Posted March 18, 2013 - 9:43 am

IDC analyst focusing on autonomous vehicles says big data is one of the biggest barriers to adoption.
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