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Money, money: Box, others bask in hot VC market
Recent investments by venture capitalists in cloud, big data and converged infrastructure companies show not only the healthy interest among...
Big data's biggest challenges
IT pros from social media, healthcare and insurance industries share their big-data success stories and lessons learned.
Startup offers hefty storage with pay-per-use pricing
The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licenses and...
SDN networks transform Big Data into information capital
SDN has huge potential to build the intelligent adaptive network for Big Data analytics. Due to the separation of the control and data plane, SDN...
How to use Hadoop to mine business value from new types of data
Apache Hadoop has emerged as the leading technology for helping companies mine big data. And while every organization is different, their big data...
Obama Administration-led data-classification overhaul to bring benefits, costs, disruption
The Obama Administration's push to overhaul how the feds share sensitive -- but not "classified" -- information is expected to come to fruition next...
Gartner: 64% of organizations looking at Big Data projects this year
Gartner Monday said its survey of 720 companies asked about their plans to invest in Big Data gathering and analysis show that almost two-thirds are...
How to use visualization tools to derive data intelligence from unstructured data
Visualization tools can support data from multiple sources and join or overlay the results, providing companies with a way to extract meaningful...
Computer scientists take hats off to sports bookies
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University say plowing through millions of tweets to gauge fan sentiment probably isn't going to help you make...
Lessons from numbers guru Nate Silver about working with big data
There's a big misconception about big data, renowned statistician and blogger Nate Silver says. It's not enough to just have access to massive...
Big Data jumps to the cloud
Kevin Walker's sales team was buried under information. Internal records, news reports, third-party data sources.
Hadoop + GPU: Boost performance of your big data project by 50x-200x?
Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of...
New York Turns to Big Data to Solve Big Tree Problem
Trees probably aren't the first thing you think of when someone mentions New York City, but the city has a lot of them. Pruning and maintaining...
Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps
The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers...
A sensible approach to big data
Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety...
To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry
Experts within and outside government IT stress the role the private sector must play in helping cash-strapped federal agencies find order in their...
Big data is a big but young market
A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big...
How Big Data Can Improve Marketing and Customer Service
Big data is poised to help marketers reach and engage customers and prospects in ways that businesses are only now starting to understand....
It's not the size of your data, it's how you use it
Data -- whether it is defined as "big" or "little" -- exists everywhere, and effective use of it does not have to be confined only to the largest...
25 must-have technologies for SMBs
Running a small business isn't easy. I know. I run one. As a freelance writer, I’ve learned that you need to run your writing career as if you were...
Big data's biggest challenges
