Big Data
Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment
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
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
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
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
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…
Google’s BigQuery vs. Hadoop: A Matchup
Google’s BigQuery vs. Hadoop: A Matchup (via slashdot) Ready to “Analyze terabytes of data with just a click of a button”? That’s the claim Google makes with its BigQuery platform. The accompanying BigQuery Webpage offers two case studies; one of them features a gaming company that found Hadoop too slow and costly for crunching massive amounts of… continue…
The Coming In-Memory Technology Battle
The Coming In-Memory Technology Battle (via slashdot) For a couple quarters there, it looked as if SAP had its competitive differentiator in the Big Data arena: in-memory technology. SAP’s HANA in-memory technology, which it claims will drastically speed up data analytics, has evolved into an integral part of the company’s product portfolio, baked… continue…
Oracle Updates BI Tools, But Does It Have the Right Data Strategy?
Oracle Updates Its BI Tools, But Does It Have the Right Data Strategy? (via slashdot) Oracle has announced updates to its business-analytics software, including its information-discovery and data integration tools. But is the company’s Big Data strategy enough to dent its rivals’ extensive, loudly marketed efforts? First, the updates: Oracle’s Endeca Information Discover 3.0 features… continue…
Twitter Adds Mobile-App Developer Tools
Twitter Adds Mobile-App Developer Tools (via slashdot) Twitter: It’s not just for 140-character Tweets anymore. Actually, that’s a bit of a stretch: displaying 140-character Tweets is all Twitter really does, when you come down to it. But a new set of tools will give developers the ability to deep-link mobile apps to Twitter Cards, the feature that… continue…
Opening Day? Analytics Tools to Predict the World Series Now
Billy Bean and Theo Epstein are right: Baseball isn’t all about skills, tactics and chewing tobacco bubble gum, it’s about numbers, and maybe even numbers first. It’s Big Data in the big leagues, baby. Which means if you’re trying to figure out how optimistic — or nervous — you should be about your team’s performance this season, analytics can help. For those of you who don’t want to crunch your numbers via nostalgic pencil and paper or Microsoft Excel, there… continue…
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