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• 6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

  By Brian Eastwood | 23 April, 2013 13:20

  Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.

• Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight

  By Allen Bernard | 06 December, 2012 14:05

  In-memory analytics, like virtualization and the cloud, is an old idea that's been given new life. In this case, the combination of big data, inexpensive commodity storage and parallel processing make it possible to analyze terabytes of data without slowing systems to a crawl.