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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).
Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group saves $200,000 on data warehousing costs

The Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group (ALH) has saved $200,000 a year after moving its data warehousing from Oracle to Microsoft.
AE Smith looks to business analytics for competitive edge

Australia’s largest privately owned mechanical services contractor has rolled out business analytics software across its business to increase its competitive edge.
Strategies for pruning data in the Cloud

Year after year, the cost of disk space has plummeted. Since you can pick up a terabyte for $50, it's often seemed a false economy to be careful with storage.
Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.
IBM Information on Demand 2011: In pictures

This year's conference, held at Mandalay Bay Resort, will focus on information management, business analytics and enterprise content management.
Jazz Montreux Festival plans 1.2PB archive for 40 years of music

Forty years worth of performances at Europe's most prestigious jazz festival will soon be stored in a digital archive that will be shared through with students and in cafés around the world.
OpenWorld 2011: Exadata underpinning Oracle Cloud play

Oracle is banking that when organisations across the Asia Pacific turn to new infrastructure to support their move to private cloud or launch of public cloud services, bigger equals better.
Oracle's Big Data Appliance taps growing enterprise need, analysts say

Oracle's new Big Data Appliance, officially introduced at the OpenWorld2011 conference in San Francisco, should appeal to enterprises looking for more efficient ways to capture, organise and analyse vast amounts of unstructured data.

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Big data - Part 2

A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.
Big data - Part 1
PostgreSQL devs lift open source database to enterprise heights
Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 3
Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 2
Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 1
NSW kicks off data centre reform - Part 1
Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 3
Google Apps vs Microsoft BPOS, Office 365 - Part 1
In-memory computing

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