• Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

  By Joab Jackson | 16 May, 2013 22:13

  Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

• More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver

  By Sharon Machlis | 08 May, 2013 19:57

  Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most well-known faces of data analysis after his FiveThirtyEight blog accurately predicted 2012 presidential election results in all 50 states.

• Getting the most out of flash storage

  By Mohit Bhatnagar, senior director, flash product strategy, NetApp | 08 May, 2013 15:25

  As powerful and beneficial as flash storage can be, many organizations are overspending on capacity they don't need, deploying flash in the wrong places, and inefficiently spending on flash applications that are not appropriate for their real business objectives.

• Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 April, 2013 13:04

  Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as Amazon's Redshift service.

• Oracle's new software, Cloud revenue dropped 2 per cent in Q3

  By Martyn Williams | 20 March, 2013 20:56

  Oracle's total revenue dipped 1 per cent and profits remained almost flat in its most recent quarter, as revenue from new software licenses and cloud services dropped by 2 per cent.

• 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.

• How-to: Get started with MySQL

  By Paul Venezia | 15 November, 2012 11:13

  An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MySQL database server, along with phpMyAdmin, on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu

• What Open Source Hadoop Coming to Windows Means to IT

  By Paul Rubens | 13 May, 2013 14:21

  Hadoop is nearly synonymous with the analysis of big data. The Hortonworks Data Platform on Windows is significant as it means that companies lacking Linux expertise will finally be able to benefit from the big data analysis platform, which has been out of the reach of Windows shops.

• 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

  By Bob Violino | 01 April, 2013 10:08

  Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay

• How to Use Big Data to Make Faster and Better Business Decisions

  By Thor Olavsrud | 11 January, 2013 14:21

  Big Data is clearly a disruptive technology, but using it successfully is as much art as it is science. The key is integrating Big Data with traditional BI to create a data ecosystem that allows you to generate new insights while executing on what you already know.

• How to Get a Grip on Data With 'Information Superiority'

  By Thor Olavsrud | 03 January, 2013 17:43

  To make more efficient use of data and improve data protection, take a holistic approach to information governance-one that focuses attention on the most sensitive data while removing impediments to sharing.

• 4 smokin' hot startups: The next tech boom

  By Trent Gegax | 14 December, 2012 11:20

  Social networks are dead, and smart VC money is pouring into enterprise startups like Shoutlet, Asana, Narrative Science, and Delphix

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