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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.

    Written by Fred O'Connor • 25 May 12 15:03

  • Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

    About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan • 18 May 12 07:45

  • How to avoid Big Data spending pitfalls

    Big Data is a powerful lure, promising to turn the massive and ever-increasing volumes of data inside an organization into a pool of intelligence that promises deep, actionable insight into every aspect of a business. However, that lure can lead you into an expensive trap if you don't plan carefully.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 09 May 12 01:36

  • 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.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 08 May 12 05:33

  • SAS Institute Eyes the Big Data Market

    COMPANY: SAS Institute

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 01 May 12 06:53

  • How to use Hadoop to overcome storage limitations

    Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today's enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can strain storage technologies -- a case in point is the push for big data analytics, an initiative that brings business intelligence (BI) capabilities to large data sets.

    Written by Frank J. Ohlhorst • 19 April 12 05:29

  • 7 top tools for taming big data

    The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people around the office will wonder what can be done with it. Perhaps there are some insights in those log files? Perhaps a bit of statistical analysis will find some nuggets of gold buried in all of that noise? Maybe we can find enough change buried in the couch cushions of these files to give us all a raise?

    Written by Peter Wayner • 18 April 12 20:11

  • 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.

    Written by Elana Varon • 17 April 12 04:10

  • Information Builders gives its BI platform more cloud-like capabilities

    Information Builders has added a range of improvements to its WebFocus BI (business intelligence) platform that will make it more appealing to ISVs and other providers that want to offer it as a cloud service, the company announced Tuesday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 02 April 12 23:02
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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.

    Written by David F. Carr • 24 March 12 05:21

  • 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.

    Written by Dan Tynan • 19 March 12 21:24

  • Can your apps handle an 1800 percent spike in traffic?

    As Super Bowl XLVI approached this year, Cars.com was facing a thorny issue. For the third year in a row it was running a big-budget ad during the game. In 2010 and 2011 the high-profile ads drew huge numbers of car shoppers to its site--a definite win--but the spike also slowed performance to a crawl.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 17 March 12 09:00

  • No unified stack soon for big data

    Despite the growing interest in big data platforms, it may be some time before organizations will be able to deploy a standardized big data software stack, concluded a panel of speakers Wednesday during a virtual panel hosted by GigaOm.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 16 March 12 05:04
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    Study: Salaries poised to rise for workers with mobile, cloud, UI skills

    IT workers who have experience with five popular technologies may see significant salary increases this year, according to a study from IT staffing firm Bluewolf.

    Written by Fred O'Connor • 07 March 12 08:01

  • Software AG plans to combine BigMemory and Business Events by year-end

    By year-end, Software AG plans to offer real-time data analytics with a combination of BigMemory, the in-memory system for Java apps it obtained through its acquisition of Terracotta, and WebMethods Business Events, its complex event processing tool.

    Written by Peter Sayer • 06 March 12 10:30

  • Supersize me: Hadoop upgrade will handle even bigger data

    With a planned upgrade to its Hadoop distributed data processing technology, the Apache Software Foundation intends for the platform to run across much larger clusters and take on larger workloads, an Apache official said Thursday.

    Written by Paul Krill • 02 March 12 22:15

  • Spring Java developers get Hadoop integration

    VMware on Wednesday is introducing its Spring Hadoop software, which is intended to make it easier for Java developers utilizing the Spring Framework to leverage Apache Hadoop data processing capabilities.

    Written by Paul Krill • 01 March 12 00:21

  • Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing

    Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core functionality, not sold separately.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 01 Feb. 12 12:26

  • Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees

    Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 28 Jan. 12 08:08

  • Net Optics acquires nMetric, targets network intelligence

    In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.

    Written by Colin Neagle • 24 Jan. 12 07:40
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