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October 30, 2012 01:01 PM
HDInsight Server "dramatically" lowers the cost and complexity of deploying Hadoop, Microsoft exec says.
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October 30, 2012 12:30 PM
Obama campaign focuses on email, social strategies, while Romney uses behavioral marketing techniques, targets disenfranchised voters.
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October 24, 2012 09:06 AM
IBM adapting '70s-era technology for world's largest radio telescope, corporate big data operations.
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October 18, 2012 11:30 AM
IT spending will hit $34 billion by 2013 as companies upgrade and adapt existing infrastructures to meet the demands of big data, Gartner research predicts.
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October 12, 2012 12:18 PM
Companies must fight the growing gap between people who gather big data and those who can put it to practical use.
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October 01, 2012 03:17 PM
Facial recognition data is just one of the big data types raising new questions between federal agencies, private companies, and privacy watchdogs.
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October 01, 2012 02:24 PM
Big data's hottest job title, data scientist, remains rare in online postings. Job seekers can use other keywords to find 'hidden' big data jobs.
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September 28, 2012 01:04 PM
Big data growth forces more companies to adopt containerized data centers and other solutions to meet storage demands.
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September 27, 2012 04:29 PM
Quantcast File System uses less disk space than Hadoop and shines on key speed metrics, developers say.
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September 26, 2012 08:40 AM
Along with cloud computing, mobile, and social networking, big data will account for a growing percentage of IT spending, leaving little to maintain older systems, says IDC study.
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September 20, 2012 09:00 AM
Hype makes big data so hot every company wants to try it, but execs remain unsure why they need it or how to implement it.
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September 14, 2012 09:06 AM
Researchers successfully emulate short-term memory using rat brain cells. Could this advance have long-term implications on data storage?
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September 13, 2012 01:06 PM
The Army faces a technology control debate as some commanders ask to choose their own big data intelligence apps, looking to prevent more troop deaths from IEDs.
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September 12, 2012 09:06 AM
Analytics identify untapped pools of donations, not answers to nagging questions of national policy.
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September 11, 2012 09:06 AM
Not every big data project has a data scientist on board. Some startups are developing analysis tools to help non-specialists target the information they need.
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September 10, 2012 03:10 PM
Microsoft Research takes new approach to data compression, but so far it works only on Azure.
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September 10, 2012 09:06 AM
Recent gameday experiment shows that in sports and in business, even the most detailed big data analysis is worthless if the questions don't make sense.
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August 31, 2012 12:00 PM
It's not enough to sift and combine big data, you also have to store it in ways that work for business users. Attunity services try to simplify enterprise work with Amazon Web Services' S3 storage.
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August 29, 2012 01:30 PM
Acquire a competitor? Check. Round of VC funding? Check. Open source version of base product? Check. The former Citrusleaf hits several big data development trends at once.
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August 27, 2012 10:22 AM
Big data makes a company smart, open source makes it rich, Gartner report contends.
