For many people, “big data” may simply mean running analytics on a Hadoop cluster. But there’s a broad range of technologies and techniques that are enabling a new class of analytics applications. To take them on, companies need to reconsider Read More…
Commercial buildings have long been able to provide information on what makes them tick, but it was often ignored. Now software companies are applying analytics to building data to improve efficiency and head off potential maintenance problems. It’s another example Read More…
As more companies try to cut costs and increase capacity using cloud-based storage and compute services, the need for data management and related security measures to house and analyze permanent or temporary data stores represents a key challenge. Read More…
Creating predictive models requires an understanding of advanced statistics. Most people can’t do it, and those who can could use someone to do the grunt work. John Ball, CEO of predictive analytics company KXEN, said that’s where his company comes Read More…
Out in the North Sea, 110 miles east of the Scottish city of Aberdeen, lies the Forties Oil Field—the U.K.’s largest offshore oilfield, discovered as far back as 1970. Now operated by Houston-based Apache Corporation, output has doubled since Apache Read More…
A new crop of high-performing databases are entering the market to reach out to millions of data professionals who are fluent in SQL. These new databases use the interactive querying language, while changing how transactional data is stored, to address performance limitations of traditional relational databases. Read More…
Companies have been able to run data analytics applications in the cloud for some time, either by leasing dedicated space or using a utility-style rental model on shared equipment. Now, Internet companies and startups are building data warehousing offerings designed from the ground up to run on the cloud. Read More…
More than simply a trend, cloud computing is helping to transform human resources and the applications it supports. Cloud-based HR products and services are cropping up everywhere, promising to help companies cut costs, increase productivity and alleviate IT headaches. Workforce Read More…
Vint Cerf, celebrated “father of the Internet” now working at Google, sees a dynamic future for collaborative computing and large-scale data analytics via interconnected clouds. Cerf told a NIST gathering of researchers they should help drive the needed infrastructure advances. Read More…
For companies still hesitant about buying into big data and analytics, 2013 is the year to get off the sidelines or risk being left behind by your competitors. That’s was the opinion expressed by analysts Dan Vesset and Ashish Nadkarni, Read More…
