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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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 02 May 12 06:55

  • 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).

    Written by Divina Paredes • 06 April 12 00:39
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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.

    Written by Thor Olavsrud • 17 April 12 09:50

  • 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
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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

  • 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.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 24 Dec. 11 03:01

  • 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).

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 29 Nov. 11 08:10

  • 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.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 16 Nov. 11 10:41

  • 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.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 14 Nov. 11 15:12

  • 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.

    Written by David Taber • 10 Nov. 11 08:49

  • 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.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 03 Nov. 11 07:09

  • 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.

    Written by Chloe Herrick • 25 Oct. 11 08:20

  • 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.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 18 Oct. 11 21:04

  • 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.

    Written by Tim Lohman • 05 Oct. 11 09:10

  • 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.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan • 04 Oct. 11 08:19

  • Oracle pushes appliance message to software crowd

    One thing became clear at Oracle's OpenWorld conference on Monday: The vendor is intent on drilling the benefits of its hardware-plus-software systems into a customer base that largely remains invested only in Oracle's applications, databases and middleware.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 Oct. 11 06:07

  • Oracle rolls out 'Big Data' appliance

    Oracle unveiled the Big Data Appliance, the newest addition to its line of products that combine software and hardware, during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus • 04 Oct. 11 03:48
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