By grouping several big data, software development, and cloud efforts under a single operation, VMware and parent company EMC have developers and devops in mind, analysts say. The vendors' Pivotal Initiative, announced Dec. 4, is about ...
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COLUMBUS, OH, December 18, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Big data may not be a term often discussed outside the CIO's office today, but according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology services with a focus on big data and ...
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RESTON, VA, November 28, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Software AG today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, in its recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise ...
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Simplify360 unveils its much awaited Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE). ACOE showcases the strength of Simplify360 platform about the next-gen big data analytics developed by the company. Simplify360, the leading Social Media ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). At the launch at BCU yesterday, the university's vice ...
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Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
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Record group EMI is honing its marketing efforts by joining its data sources through Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It has reportedly gained insights into how individual artists’ albums, tracks, ringtones and merchandise sell in different ...
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The government could save up to £33bn a year by applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a new report from think tank the Policy Exchange. The Policy Exchange estimated up to £22bn could be found by ...
Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
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Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
For all the promise that big data holds, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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IT professionals in the UK, EU and the US agree that BI users are a deep source of exasperation. A survey commissioned by BI dashboards supplier LogiXML found an IT pro population united in grief across the Atlantic. According to the ...
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British American Tobacco has deployed automatic data extraction tools on its SAP environment to free up auditor time. David Barkhausen, senior IT auditor at British American Tobacco (BAT), spoke on the extraction of SAP data for audit ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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