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Tableau IPO: Q&A with CEO Chabot
Data discovery rock star Tableau goes public on the NYSE, with ticker symbol "DATA." But will Tableau now grow or plateau?
Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on innovation, OpenStack, Hadoop
As computing systems become commoditized, the "profit pools are going to evaporate" for enterprise software vendors, said Whitehurst.
Google I/O 2013: Turning BigQuery analytics into marketing strategies
Google product managers describe how digital photo company Shutterfly is a case study example of turning big data into business without massive hardware and software investments.
HP, SAP unveil 'Project Kraken' single server test for big data
The joint collaboration project from Hewlett-Packard and SAP effectively triples the amount of memory on a single server designed for processing big data.
Dell targets finance, architecture with new Precision workstations
Dell stressed its uber-small, entry-level workstations will offer higher performance for "desktop PC prices."
Data scientists: Hype or help?
Scale matters. Massive data — especially streaming data — requires its own ecosystem. It's not just small data made bigger.
Google presses algorithm, cloud advantage vs. Apple, rivals
Whether it's photo editing enhancements, voice search or new mapping tools, the efforts boil down to machine learning and cloud infrastructure --- Google's primary core competency. Can rivals keep up?
Singapore plans DaaS pilot to develop data industry
The data-as-a-service program is meant to kickstart the development of a nationwide delivery platform of public and private sector datasets, which would in turn spur more innovative applications to be created.
Children's research centre boosts storage for DNA big data
New storage infrastructure means more patients will be able to benefit from next-generation DNA sequencing, according to Murdoch Childrens Research Institute associate director professor Andrew Sinclair.
Dell takes SharePlex to Hadoop and beyond
Dell Software's SharePlex replication tool for Oracle now works with Hadoop, or anything else that can talk to a JMS queue.
McLaren CIO: How we're working with big data
The F1 auto racing pioneer does a lot more with data than you'd expect.
Here's what is really worrying CIOs, right now
Wondering what issues are really setting the CIO agenda and keeping tech chiefs up at night? Here's a list from CIOs themselves - and yes, BYOD and cloud are on there.
Singapore to develop social analytics for biz
A call-for-collaboration (CFC) has been launched inviting companies to develop and deploy social analytics for business enterprises for targeted sectors such as tourism, retail, and food and beverage.
India IT infrastructure spend to reach $2.3B
Big data, cloud, social, and mobility are finding business use cases and bringing a paradigm shift in the way IT impacts organizations, pushing India's spending in IT infrastructure to US$2.3 billion by 2014.
Twitter buys up another data-focused startup: Lucky Sort
Twitter has some more new big data and visualization tools headed its way with another startup purchase.