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). Further reading Paypal: Big data is a scam Businesses ...
Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
Tags: Big data analytics, parallel programming framework, social media data
Informatica Corporation has unveiled enterprise-class XML mapping (XMap) and HParser Capabilities to assist insurance organizations to represent opportunities and challenges around ACORD insurance standards and manage big data effectively. ...
Tags: Informatica Corporation, XML mapping, HParser Capabilities, insurance
The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide will map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them towards making the right buying decision. On a three week cycle the publication ...
Tags: Computer, Products, readership
Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
Tags: Gov-cloud, Amazon Web Services, security, cloud services
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published a data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. It explains the issues surrounding the anonymisation of personal data and its disclosure,along with ...
Tags: ICO, publishes, anonymisation of data, privacy rights
SAP is urging businesses to rethink core business values to become more consumer-centric using mobile, social, cloud and business intelligence (BI). Addressing delegates via a video link at the opening of SAP TechEd Madrid, Bill ...
Tags: SAP, cloud strategy, an e-learning platform, Hagermann Snabe
Financial services is tipping over into an embrace of big data, according to a survey. More than half of the respondents to a big data in financial services survey, conducted among delegates registered for a conference in Canary Wharf next ...
Tags: Financial services, big data, risk and operational management
IDG News Service - There's been a lot of talk from about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way. Red ...
Tags: IDG, News Service, hardware vendors
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust(CHUFT)has reported savings of about£45,000 and saved 115 more lives since implementing a suite of QlikView applications last year. In 2010,the trust had a problem with its ...
Tags: Colchester Hospital University, NHS Trust, CHUFT, Department of Health
The appetite for outsourcing among IT professionals is growing due to the uptake of cloud services and infrastructure-on-demand, says research. On average organisations say more than a quarter of their IT budgets are spent on outsourcing ...
Tags: IT professionals, cloud services, private and public cloud
Open source"big data"technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. For ...
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 ...
Tags: EMC, Lenovo, data center, storage services, servers
CIOs are avid for advanced analytics offered by in-memory and in-database analytics, and open source big data technologies, like Hadoop. But take up of advanced analytics, chiefly forward-looking in nature, remains low, despite its ...