Monday, December 10, 2012
IBM develops nanophotonics chip for mass market CPUs that can process optical data directly could be available in the "next few years," according to the company
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
HP upgrades BI portfolio, adds Hadoop support The company also announced a series of analytics platforms tailored to specific industries, including telecom companies and marketing organizations
Monday, December 03, 2012
Canada lags in big data analytics, report says Q&A: SAS Americas EVP Carl Farrell addresses a recent IDC Canada survey that puts Canadian companies a considerable distance behind in terms of investment in and strategy for big data analytics
Friday, November 30, 2012
Big data: Talk or action? An unscientific survey of international chief information officers shows a variety of attitudes towards the concept, ranging from cost worries to approval
Friday, November 16, 2012
HP releases new server optimized for big data The server is built to support data-intensive computing, the company says
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Big data and the legal profession: the jury is in Lawyers are now able to use predictive analytics to determine outcomes in the same way other businesses are
Friday, October 26, 2012
How to exploit big data It's tempting to think that data speaks for itself. But as this case study shows, often analytics staff has to talk to other staff to be able to leverage data in the organization 
Friday, October 26, 2012
Python simplifies big data Language can become the lingua franca for mixed teams of big data experts
Monday, October 22, 2012
IBM's big data strategy blazes forward Company says its on-premise and cloud-based analytics software is now faster, easier to use, and better equipped to tackle both structured and unstructured data
Friday, October 19, 2012
The shifting sands of unstructured data The technology that can find meaning in unstructured data can take two very different forms
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The special breed of data scientist The reason for the shortage of qualified data scientists is the rare combination of qualities needed for the job
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Big data could helps airlines take flight What do you get when you combine data from social media Web sites and weather forecasts? A better way to predict hurricanes and snow storms, thinks one company
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
IBM adds to PureSystems line PureData integrated systems are optimized for transactional, operational or big data analytics customers, with claims they can be deployed in as little as 24 hours
Thursday, September 20, 2012
A hiring policy based on big data? You can lie with statistics, but some companies still find them more reliable than human intuition in their hiring process
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The cost of keeping Hadoop open-source Hortonworks is building its Hadoop distributions completely in open-source. Could its rivals take advantage?