Big data is mostly a buzzword created by analysts and the press with the most literal examples of big data being restricted to machine data, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has claimed. Goodnight made the comments during the opening keynote of his ...
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Truven Health Analytics has upgraded its Health Unify population health management solution with healthcare data warehousing, analytic methodologies and decision-support capabilities to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs for clinical ...
IT contracting is being favoured over permanent hiring in the current market but some senior roles are moving back in-house, a recruitment expert says. Hays IT senior regional director Peter Noblet said permanent roles were steady but ...
US-based non-standard auto insurance products provider, Personable Insurance has selected iPartners' Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Solution to support its rapid growth. Selection is based on the solution's ease-of-use and quick ...
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Teradata, the analytic data solutions company, announced that the Germany-based EHI Retail institute has presented UK retailer Shop Direct Group with the "Best Enterprise Solution" award for retail technology in Europe. The recognition was ...
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Amazon has officially launched the Redshift cloud data warehousing services to save the enterprise storage market. This service is integrated directly into Amazon's other services, such as S3 and DynamoDB, the service will be provided in ...
After much time spent negotiating with investors who failed to find a rescue plan for integrator and reseller 2e2, the firm entered administration, and now its customers are looking to jump ship. Hundreds of jobs on the line as 2e2 ...
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Minneapolis-based mutual holding company Constellation has been launched to help the physician-owned medical liability companies collaborate for common benefit. Originally established by Midwest medical liability company (MMIC), ...
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QuantiSense, the leading provider of retail analytics and decision orchestration solutions, announced that Reitmans CIO, Diane Randolph, and QuantiSense CEO, Jeff Buck, will be speaking together at the National Retail Federation’s ...
High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making a foray into the data warehousing segment with the launch of Redshift, a cloud-based data warehouse service. It announced the Redshift service, along with Amazon S3 price cuts, at its first ever user ...
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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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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 ...
Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace today announced new capabilities for database hosting and management. A NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS) from a ...
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Oracle on Monday gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced Sunday by CEO Larry Ellison . The key feature of 12c, which is set ...
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