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Big Data, where the data is only going to get bigger, MicroStrategy gives performance access to all kinds of high volume, high velocity and high variety big data sources. Being an analytic company for the past 20 years, we have the expertise in data comprehension helping industries make smarter decisions. Help us in fortifying our overall big data solution; join us for an exciting journey full of opportunities and a rewarding career!

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Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment

By nick kolakowski

May 15, 2013

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Posted In Big Data, Cloud Computing, Working in Tech

Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment (via slashdot) When the Google I/O 2013 conference kicks off May 15, the crowds of developers and Google-philes swarming San Francisco’s Moscone Center will find themselves involved in a massive Big Data experiment, courtesy of the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. “Since we love open source hardware… continue…

Why the Future Belongs to Big Data

By Don Willmott

May 4, 2013

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Posted In Big Data, Cloud Computing, Living in Tech

When it comes to buzzwords, Big Data is currently at the top of the technology heap. You may have your own definition, but Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers and Ambiga Dhiraj, the authors of Big Data, Big Analytics, describe it this way: Big Data goes beyond the traditional limits of data along three dimensions: volume, variety and velocity. The combination of these three dimensions makes the data more complex to ingest, process and visualize. It’s the wide variety of available data… continue…

Gartner: SSDs Simply Can’t Replace Hard Drives

By nick kolakowski

May 3, 2013

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Posted In Big Data, IT Architecture, Working in Tech

Gartner: SSDs Simply Can’t Replace Hard Drives (via slashdot) Hard-drive manufacturers can breathe a sigh of relief—solid-state disks (SSDs) won’t replace their “traditional” product lines anytime soon, according to a new Gartner report. Given the enormity of future capacity needs, it will be impossible for CIOs and IT managers to completely replace hard…

Oracle Invests in Ingestible Sensors

By nick kolakowski

May 3, 2013

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Posted In Big Data, Working in Tech

Oracle Invests in Ingestible Sensors (via slashdot) Oracle has made a “strategic minority investment” in digital-health firm Proteus, which builds ingestible sensors. In theory, ingestible sensors could play a key role in the expanding field of medical-data analytics, in which researchers and other healthcare experts use information gathered from… continue…

Using Big Data to Save the Planet

By nick kolakowski

May 2, 2013

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Using Big Data to Save the Planet (via slashdot) Big Data: tool of international diplomacy? The U.S. State Department’s Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) office is reportedly using an analytical toolset to drill deep into the reasons behind conflicts around the world. “We are about breaking and interrupting, stopping and preventing…

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