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Big Data Professors Want Your Data Sets
April 29, 2013 09:58 AM Access to large, relevant data sets is the biggest problem facing business intelligence and data analytics instructors and students, new survey finds.
Graph Analytics: The Other Big Data
April 29, 2013 09:06 AM Dedicated graph analytics appliance from Cray subsidiary YarcData looks for hard-to-find relationships in big data.
Actian Acquires ParAccel, Fuel Behind Amazon RedShift
April 25, 2013 12:32 PM Actian adds a high-scale distributed database to a portfolio that already includes Vectorwise, Ingres, Pervasive and Versant.
EMC's Pivotal Plan: Brilliant Or Crazy?
April 25, 2013 09:35 AM Pivotal's ambitious plan promises next-generation cloud computing, big data, application-development and analytics capabilities. Can it succeed?
Chicago CIO Pursues Predictive Analytics Strategy
April 23, 2013 02:00 PM The city's IT team is using open source to build an analytics platform aimed at predicting and preventing big city problems.
Military Uses Big Data As Spy Tech
April 22, 2013 10:58 AM U.S. intelligence agencies use semantic analysis software to find potential security threats from massive volumes of incoming data.
Big Data For Mom-And-Pop Shops
April 22, 2013 10:57 AM Startup Tranzlogic brings big data-style analytics like those used by giant retailers to small and midsize merchants.
5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments
April 22, 2013 09:06 AM Big data project leaders still hunger for some key technology ingredients. Starting with SQL analysis, we examine the top five wants and the people working to solve those problems.
Splunk, DataSift Team Up For Big Data Analytics
April 19, 2013 11:30 AM DataSift now streams real-time social data to Splunk's analytics software for the enterprise.
Teradata Joins SQL-On-Hadoop Bandwagon
April 15, 2013 01:10 PM Teradata announces standard SQL access to Hadoop data, following in the footsteps of IBM, EMC and Cloudera. Hadoop is the winner.
Big Data Profile: D&B's Anthony Scriffignano
April 15, 2013 12:46 PM Prescriptive Analytics And Big Data: Next Big Thing?
April 15, 2013 11:47 AM Predictive analytics tells you what will happen; prescriptive analytics tells you what to do about it.
Big Data: Start Small, Think Big
April 15, 2013 10:31 AM A toe-in-the-water approach to big data makes more sense than jumping in with both feet, says CEO of IT management software firm ManageEngine.
IBM: Flash Storage Hits Tipping Point
April 12, 2013 09:06 AM Flash is now cheaper than most spinning disks -- and dramatically speeds up application and database performance, IBM says. What about Hana and Exadata?
Military Intelligence Tries To Tame Data 'Monster'
April 10, 2013 03:39 PM University workshop featuring experts in ontology, the study of the nature of existence, will try to answer how the military can extract useful information out of huge unorganized collection of intelligence data.
Healthcare Heavyweights Team To Compare Medical Devices
April 10, 2013 12:50 PM SharedClarity, a new company formed by insurer UnitedHealthcare and three big providers, will negotiate with device makers based on performance studies.
Military Plans Multi-Exabyte Storage Cloud
April 08, 2013 04:11 PM Defense Information Systems Agency will spend $45 million on a private storage cloud for intelligence and surveillance imagery.
Oracle BI, Endeca Upgrades Stress Self Service
April 08, 2013 03:36 PM Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite and Endeca upgrades offer new ways for business users to integrate, visualize and analyze data.
Don't Confuse Big Data With Storage
April 08, 2013 09:25 AM A large part of big data management is knowing what data to analyze, what to back up and what to dump, says disaster recovery expert.
Database Customers Hold A Strong Hand
April 08, 2013 08:00 AM Our 2013 State of Database Technology Survey shows IT teams finally gaining leverage thanks to cloud, virtualization, open source.
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Base: 417 respondents at organizations using or planning to deploy data analytics, BI or statistical analysis software
Data: InformationWeek 2013 Analytics, Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey of 541 business technology professionals, October 2012
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