A host of big companies have explained how they have benefitted from?Big Data in a research report?published this week. The Big Data in Big Companies report describes how around 20 large firms have deployed analytics software to benefit ...
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Improving users' experiences is no justification for using consumer information in big data projects, according to Europe's top data protection officials. The Article 29 Working Group, which includes the data protection supervisors from ...
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Few tech industry buzzwords have gotten as vigorous a workout as "big data," but while the hype remains plentiful, it is starting to give way to real-life successes as well as formal ways companies can develop big data strategies, according ...
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Business Technology Solutions (BizTech), a leading Business and IT Services firm and Oracle Platinum Partner, is pleased to announce the addition of Oracle E-Business Suite instance cloning onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its cloud ...
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IDC says Big Data market outstripping IT as a whole by sevenfold. IT systems management firm Kaseya said firms must be mindful of the complexities of handling Big Data projects, and also bear in mind the "worrying skills shortage" in the ...
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New York-based political statistician and author Nate Silver was a special guest speaker at IBM's Information On Demand conference. Big data, algorithms and sports analysis were among the topics of discussion. Conference MC Jason Silva ...
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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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With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena. The new design will feature a number of new features, including a ...
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Many global organisations have failed to implement a data management strategy but will have to as IT leaders need to support big data volumes, velocity and variety, according to a new Gartner report. In its Predicts 2013: Big Data and ...
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 ...
About 20 years ago, we were running our first data mining pilot at the large insurer I was working for at the time. I'm reminded of this project whenever I listen to the advice given in connection with big data projects. "Know what ...
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