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How to Avoid Big Data Spending Pitfalls
The Big Data hype machine is in full swing. While the promise is great, Big Data projects also can be an expensive trap if you fail to prove the...
IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues
The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from US$77 million in 2011...
Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics
Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing...
How to Use Hadoop to Overcome Storage Limitations
Big data is all about storing and accessing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, where to put that data and how to access it...
7 top tools for taming big data
Top-flight reporting, analysis, visualization, integration, and development tools that help you harness Hadoop
Big Data in the Real World Isn't So Easy
The pundits make it sound so simple. But CIOs wrestling with overwhelming amounts of unwieldy data know that 'big data' is a big challenge...
IBM acquires Varicent Software
Adding to its already considerable line of analysis software and expertise, IBM announced Friday that it has acquired business intelligence software...
SAP lays out plans to become big player in databases, mobile
SAP made a series of announcements on Tuesday as part of its bid to become a high-profile player in the database market alongside the likes of Oracle...
SAP goes after SAS, IBM with predictive analytics software
SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application, BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis...
CIOs Overcome Shortage of Business Analytics Talent
Business intelligence, analytics and big data are all the rage. But those enterprise endeavors require staffers with solid business knowledge,...
Oracle set to update analytics strategy, go after SAP customers
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd is scheduled to reveal new details about the vendor's BI (business intelligence) and analytics strategy, including new...
IBM: Puzzles provide clues to better analysis
Today's large-scale data analysis may be a high-tech undertaking, but smart data scientists can improve their craft by observing how simple...
IBM: Puzzles provide clues to better analysis
Today's large-scale data analysis may be a high-tech undertaking, but smart data scientists can improve their craft by observing how simple...
Google's BigQuery brings big data to the cloud
While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing...
IBM unveils new analysis packages
IBM has unveiled three packages of services and software to help organizations analyze their data for profit and improved efficiency.
How to get a hot job in big data
The big data revolution is creating a new breed of business-IT jobs -- and threatening to destabilize dyed-in-the-wool IT careers
Can Your Apps Handle an 1,800 Percent Spike in Traffic?
Business customers and users are demanding ever-better performance from websites and applications. However, the majority of CIOs are uncertain they...
No unified stack soon for big data
Despite the growing interest in big data platforms, it may be some time before organizations will be able to deploy a standardized big data software...
Supersize me: Hadoop upgrade will handle even bigger data
Apache aims to have the upcoming 0.23 release this year be able to run on 6,000-node clusters
Spring Java developers get Hadoop integration
VMware's Spring Hadoop offers link between Spring development framework and Hadoop distributed processing platform