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CIO Tough Love: Agility Demands Increasing
May 23, 2013 12:27 PM IT leaders, brace yourself for pain as you push for agility. Business needs are emerging so rapidly that tools don't exist to support them, said CIOs at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.
Big Data Tool Mimics Human Problem Solving Technique
May 21, 2013 09:06 AM Case-based reasoning compares real-time information with past cases to provide companies with the best course of action, says Norwegian firm Verdande, maker of CBR product Edge.
Internet Of Things Wake-Up Call For Enterprises
May 13, 2013 02:00 PM Organizations need to plan for the new generation of Internet-enabled devices that may be located anywhere in the world.
Big Data Firm Chronicles Your Online, Offline Lives
May 07, 2013 10:45 AM Startup Versium Analytics assembles detailed profiles of consumers and businesses to help marketers hone their pitches.
Data Hoarding: How To Stop
May 06, 2013 10:36 AM Hoarding information, or storing enterprise data in the wrong places, can open your company to legal liability. But culture change won't be easy.
How Foreign Names Trip Up Terrorism Databases
May 03, 2013 09:56 AM In last month's Boston Marathon bombing, the key suspect's name, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had multiple spellings on U.S. intelligence watch lists. How can we beat this problem?
MapR Brings Search To Hadoop
May 01, 2013 02:07 PM MapR brings new power to HBase, taps LucidWorks to integrate Apache Lucene/Solr search into M7 Hadoop distribution.
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.
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.
Slideshows
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.
Big Data's Surprising Uses: From Lady Gaga To CIA
December 17, 2012 09:06 AM As big data analytics rapidly become mainstream, the technology shows promise in many unexpected places. Check out who's tapping into big data.
13 Big Data Vendors To Watch In 2013
December 11, 2012 09:06 AM From Amazon to Splunk, here's a look at the big data innovators that are now pushing Hadoop, NoSQL and big data analytics to the next level.
Big Data Talent War: 10 Analytics Job Trends
March 28, 2012 09:05 AM A gap is emerging among data-savvy professionals, with big-data-analysis and predictive skills trumping routine business-intelligence and information-management talents.
12 Hadoop Vendors To Watch In 2012
January 24, 2012 08:00 AM Promising low cost and unheard of scalability, Hadoop has been called the next-generation platform for data processing. Check out the vendors taking Hadoop to the next level.
Commentary
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Doug Henschen7 Insights On Hiring Data Gurus
Our newest salary survey shows analytics and data-management professionals are in big demand. Whether you are hiring or job hunting, consider these pointers for your search.
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Michael FitzgeraldWhat's Excel's Place In Big Data Age?
Microsoft has its own opinion. But do CIOs want to make Excel the analytics engine for the masses?
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Doug Henschen6 Big Data Advances: Some Might Be Giants
In a full week for big data news, EMC, Intel and Revolution Analytics announcements stand out.
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Doug HenschenActian Builds Mini Big Data Empire
Company behind Vectorwise and Ingres databases acquires Pervasive and Versant to add customers and expand software footprint into data integration.
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Doug HenschenHow To Fill Big Data Talent Gaps Fast
Consider training current employees or recruiting from our list of analytics master's degree programs.
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Doug HenschenBig Data Revolution Will Be Led By Revolutionaries
Why "old-guard" vendors didn't make our list of big data vendors to watch in 2013.
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Jennifer PriestleyBig Data Education: 3 Steps Universities Must Take
How can universities help meet the growing demand for data scientists? Consider this advice from a professor working in the trenches with tomorrow's analytics pros.
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Rajan ChandrasData Governance: No Single Solution
The problem isn't a shortage of products. It's a shortage of clarity and vision.
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Paul CerratoIBM Watson Finally Graduates Medical School
Partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center suggests IBM's supercomputer is ready to help oncologists manage their most challenging cases.
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Fritz NelsonMemo To Oracle, SAP: Listen To P&G's Language
Oracle and SAP keep fighting a war of words over whose technology is bigger and better. They could learn a lot from Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini's big data work.
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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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