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Articles tagged "Big data"
Tue, 11 June 2013
Fri, 7 June 2013
How Cloud Computing Democratizes Big Data
Financial firms have been crunching Big Data for years - with the help of cloud computing, now it's everyone else's turn.
Wed, 29 May 2013
The Real Reason Hadoop Is Such A Big Deal In Big Data
Why has Hadoop been such a major force in the Big Data scene? What makes this software so damn special?
Fri, 24 May 2013
Hadoop 2.0: Brace Yourself For This Summer's Big Data Breakthrough
Hadoop has long been held back by its MapReduce limitations. But that's all about to change.
Thu, 23 May 2013
Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works
You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without talking about Hadoop. But what is Hadoop, and what makes it so…
Mon, 20 May 2013
Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid
The bigger the data set, the bigger the chance for completely misreading the data, particularly with regards to so-called Black Swan…
Fri, 17 May 2013
Google Sensors Are Data Mining I/O Attendees - And They Like It!
The thousands of attendees at the Google I/O developers conference this week are unwitting guinea pigs for the company's latest Big Data…
Tue, 14 May 2013
What Are The Feds Hiding? Let's Ask The Declassification Engine
The Declassification Engine was designed to peer through the "black bars" of redacted government documents in order to reveal what the…
Mon, 13 May 2013
Big Data May Be A Pretty Small Problem
Data analysis is all the rage, but there is currently a strong debate on how big a data set a business actually needs and how much they…
Fri, 10 May 2013
Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics
While Hadoop vendors like to point to the technology's capabilities in Big Data analytics, the reality is that today's Hadoop adoption is…
Mon, 29 April 2013
The Rising Costs Of Misunderstanding Big Data
The bigger our data sets, the harder it becomes to sift through them to find objective truth, and the higher the costs of getting it…
Fri, 12 April 2013
Tax Time Tip: 3 Ways The IRS Is Tracking You Online
The IRS's data-mining capabilities are bigger and more extensive than ever. Did you double-check your math before filing your return?
Thu, 4 April 2013
Show Us The Data: Time For Companies To Reveal What They Know About Us
It's a good start, but California's Right To Know Act is really just the beginning of what's needed to protect digital privacy.
Fri, 29 March 2013
Nate Silver Gets Real About Big Data
Nate Silver, one of the world's foremost statisticians and someone who makes a living on data, has some advice for those getting drunk on…
Thu, 28 March 2013
What The Donglegate Fixation Made You Miss At Pycon
While all the news around PyCon surrounded some juvenile sexual innuendo and ensuing controversy, the real story of PyCon is how Python is…
Thu, 14 March 2013
IBM Wants Your CEO To Embrace The Future — And It Will Do All The Hard Work
IBM launches its Customer Experience Lab on March 14, aiming to bring "Big Data" technologies to the business executives who can't see…
Tue, 12 March 2013
Attacking Big Data Old-School Style With VMware's SQLFire
As companies look for new ways to make data accessible and provide a consistent view of that information, it's important to have tools…
Proprietary Hadoop Is A Losing Strategy
EMC has a shiny new Hadoop distribution, which boasts improved performance and ease of use. Despite these apparent advantages, EMC has baked…
Mon, 11 March 2013
New eBay Metrics Could Help Save Millions in Data Center Costs
eBay's Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) dashboard leads to small software changes that saved the company $2 million in equipment costs…
Fri, 8 March 2013
12 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Online Security
Guaranteed you didn't know everything on this list - and you probably won't agree with all the points, either.
Thu, 28 February 2013
How Big Data Can Boost Weather Forecasting
Thanks to the rapid spread of sensors and satellites, and to the increase in computer number-crunching speeds, it’s now possible to…
Wed, 27 February 2013
Cloud-Based GemFire Makes It Easier To Work With Big Data
Today's critical challenge is how can companies properly manage Big Data.
Data: Once A Differentiator, Now a Commodity?
Data has become an increasingly important competitive differentiator as software and hardware commoditzes. But if Big Data technologies…
How The Mobile Enterprise Puts Business Leaders On The Hot Seat
Mobility should be evaluated in the context of the other major technology shifts around it today, namely cloud computing, data analytics and…
