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  • Coding contest shows how big data can improve health care

    A recent coding competition in the Boston area brought together IT professionals, medical workers and others with an interest in health IT to show how data analytics can improve health care.

  • IDC: Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues

    The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from $US77 million in 2011 to $US812.8 million in 2016, a compound annual growth rate of 60.2 per cent, according to a new report released by analyst firm IDC.

  • Google's BigQuery offers infrastructure to crunch Big Data

    Few companies in the world have access to datasets as large as Google does, and, unsurprisingly, Google is one of the companies at the forefront of Big Data analytics. Now Google plans to share the wealth by giving others access to its data crunching infrastructure with its new Google BigQuery Service.

  • The big career shift: Big Data

    It is a 'great time' to be a data scientist, says Dr Rami Mukhtar, senior researcher, National ICT Australia (NICTA).

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    How to implement next-generation storage infrastructure for Big Data

    Everyone is talking about Big Data analytics and associated business intelligence marvels these days, but before organisations will be able to leverage the data, they'll have to figure out how to store it. Managing larger data stores--at the petabyte scale and larger--is fundamentally different from managing traditional large-scale data sets. Just ask Shutterfly.

  • Big Data in the real world isn't so easy

    General Motors' OnStar service, which provides drivers with remote vehicle diagnostics and responds to emergencies, already manages as much as 3 petabytes of data annually. OnStar CIO Jeffrey Liedel knows there is so much more that can be done to exploit that data-for the benefit of drivers and GM's business.

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    Five business analytics tech trends and how to exploit them

    Advances in analytic technologies and business intelligence are allowing CIOs to go big, go fast, go deep, go cheap and go mobile with business data.

  • How to get a hot job in big data

    Big data is reshaping business IT. Thanks to cheap storage, massive processing power, and tools like Hadoop, organizations are now able to mine terabytes of information and derive useful business intelligence from it. But the data revolution is also creating a new breed of hybrid business-IT jobs, ones that blend business knowledge and powerful IT tools to the benefit of tech-savvy line-of-business professionals -- and the possible detriment of IT pros oblivious to the big data trend.

  • Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012

    Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to BI (business intelligence) and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global recession, as companies looked to gain insights into their business and subsequently, more efficiency as well as new ideas.

  • Information glut costing Australia $3 billion a year: Survey

    Unstructured data coupled with IT outages could be costing the Australian economy up to $3 billion each year, according to storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS).

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