Sports analytics: How 'Moneyball' meets big data (gallery)
Bill James and Billy Beane have led the way for sports teams to make strategic decisions based on analyzing data rather than watching the actual games or players.
Big on Data
Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew Brust
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
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Health sciences M&A: IMS acquires Appature
Merger combines long-standing curated Big Data resources with recent-vintage cloud-based Big Data analytics platform to help life sciences companies market in a new era.
Microsoft's big data strategy: Democratize, in-memory, and the cloud
Microsoft wants to enable everyone to work with big data, using Excel, SQL Server, and current skill sets. With a solid stack, albeit one vulnerable in predictive analytics and mobility, can Microsoft become the McDonald's of big data "insights?"
New Hadoop distributions proliferate
Hortonworks, Intel, and EMC/Greenplum have each introduced new Hadoop distributions, just as the Strata Big Data jamboree kicks off in Santa Clara, California.
Red Hat's Big Data strategy: A full stack approach
Open source vendor Red Hat announces a Big Data strategy that spans the full enterprise software stack, both in the public cloud and on-premise.
Gartner releases 2013 BI Magic Quadrant
As a follow-up to the data warehouse Magic Quadrant, here's a roundup of Gartner's annual Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant report.
Gartner releases 2013 data warehouse Magic Quadrant
In Gartner's data warehouse report, Teradata maintains its lead, Microsoft's on the upswing, and megatrends include the logical data warehouse, in-memory technology and Big Data integration.
SiSense and Microsoft bring big-data analytics to the Windows Azure cloud
Microsoft is still entering the Big Data Arena. SiSense has fewer than 50 employees. But the two companies' partnership has serious ramifications for cloud analytics.
Service Providers’ Big Date with Big Data
After years of struggling to capture and manage growing data volumes, service providers across the globe are realizing that Big Data is a great business opportunity.
VoltDB hits proverbial version 3.0
VoltDB's 3.0 release brings fit, finish, and an emboldening of the NewSQL manifesto.