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SAS Makes Triple Play
May 01, 2013 09:06 AM SAS broadens High-Performance Analytics portfolio, unites formerly siloed marketing applications and adds cloud deployment flexibility.
NewsiT Uses Big Data Tools To Verify Tweets
April 30, 2013 11:02 AM Journalist and entrepreneur develops analytics platform to give companies confidence when crowd-sourcing news from social media feeds.
Big Data Will Stymie Local Government
April 30, 2013 10:48 AM State and local agencies have only a fraction of the computing resources and personnel needed to handle expected data volumes, survey finds.
Cloudera Impala Brings SQL Querying To Hadoop
April 30, 2013 09:15 AM Cloudera's SQL-on-Hadoop tool hits general release, but will it satisfy demands for faster, easier exploration of big data?
IBM Crunches Internet Of Things Data
April 29, 2013 01:26 PM IBM MessageSight appliance connects sensors, mobile devices for machine-to-machine data capture and real-time analysis.
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.
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.
By The Numbers
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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