IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
The money keeps pouring into the thing called the Internet of Things. IBM joined a growing list of technology giants this week in announcing plans to invest $3 billion over the next four years to...
View ArticleBig Data ‘Center of Gravity’ Shifting to Cloud
As practitioners of big data analytics seek to bring computing power closer to the data rather than the other way around, the cloud is emerging as the preferred platform for increasingly sophisticated...
View ArticleIn-Memory Platform Targets Real-Time Data
Querying real-time data on a massive scale remains a huge infrastructure hurdle that is increasingly being addressed by in-memory data grids. Hazelcast Inc., an in-memory computing vendor and partner...
View ArticleIBM Bluemix Adds Apache Kafka Messaging
Cloud vendors continue to add a range of open-source development tools to their platforms. The latest example comes from IBM, which has steadily been building up the toolbox on its Bluemix development...
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Using Automated Data Analytics and IoT to Enhance Shop Floor Productivity
Data from networked devices — the Internet of Things (IoT) — is beginning to flow from the manufacturing floor to the data center. This IoT data provides an easier, better, and more automated way to...
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Spreading Spark Enterprise-wide
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to 100X faster than...
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Data Analytics Drives New Fan-Team Relationship for NBA’s Orlando Magic
Short of shooting three-pointers and grabbing rebounds, advanced data analytics has taken on a pivotal role for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association, driving nearly every aspect of...
View ArticleCloud Platforms Help Wrangle Trader Data
A new data-as-a-service platform targeting high-frequency traders adds momentum to the growing trend toward combining cloud-based computing with precise market data. In this case, a widely used...
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The Emerging ‘Internet of Machines,’ FPGAs, and the Discovery of Knowledge We...
The advanced scale computing landscape of the future will have a broader diversity of processors, a focus on matching processors to application domains, and the use of machine learning techniques that...
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Big Data at Netflix: Testing, Testing, Testing…
Netflix is a company riding, you could say driving, the streaming internet video wave. Much of that wave is founded on Open Source big data analytics in the cloud at scale – at extreme scale. Five...
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Nielsen and Intel Migrate HPC Efficiency and Data Analytics to Big Data
Nielsen has collaborated with Intel to migrate important pieces of HPC technology into Nielsen’s big-data analytic workflows including MPI, mature numerical libraries from NAG (the Numerical Algorithms...
View ArticleMapR Rolls Hadoop Migration ‘Easy Button’
MapR Technologies Inc. rolled out a migration service for its Hadoop distribution that targets what it says is growing demand for moving big data production installations to its converged data...
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An Insider’s Guide to Building a Cloud-based FinServ Big Data Analytics...
Even if you’ve never lived through a data analytics development project at a financial services organization, you know it’s a complicated undertaking. But you may not know just how multifaceted, how...
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Machine Data Analytics for DevOps: Five Tips
As more organizations adopt a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery approach, in which software is developed in shorter cycles and deployed into production at higher velocity, they need a new...
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Cray Courts the Enterprise with Pre-Configured Analytics Urika-GX
Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) continued its courtship of the advanced scale enterprise market with today's launch of the Urika-GX, a system that integrates Cray supercomputing technologies with an agile big data...
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New IBM Data Analytics Software Targets Workload Management, Spark Adoption
IBM announced additions today to the infrastructure layer of its high performance data analytics software portfolio, including “cognitive features,” such as scheduling and resource management, and...
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New Data Analytics Benchmark Puts Stopwatch to Hadoop-based Systems
Ladies and gentlemen, start your clusters. A new data analytics and machine learning benchmark has been released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) measuring real-world performance...
View ArticleSIEM Gains as Consumer Security Software Fades
Security information and event management (SIEM) software fueled a robust global security software market in 2015 even as sales of consumer security software declined sharply last year, according to...
View ArticleEnterprises Embrace Machine Learning
Machine learning technology is poised to move from niche data analytics applications to mainstream enterprise big data campaigns over the next two years, a recent vendor survey suggests. SoftServe, a...
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HPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ends the seven-year...
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