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When big data invades your home
Big data buzz is all around us in the data center, in the cloud, and in the news but is it possible that someday we'll use big data at home too? Could be.
IBM taps Watson for commerce push
Fresh out of medical school, Big Blue's smart supercomputer pivots to marketing -- and takes up residence inside the customer service call center.
Ernst & Young: Volume of tech merger deals still declining
While large transformative deals dominated the technology M&A landscape in Q1, the average deal value appears to have dropped off.
Hortonworks releases its Hadoop for Windows distribution
Hortonworks has released its open-source implementation of its Hadoop implementation for Windows, paving the way for Microsoft to deliver its own Hadoop software and services.
Big Data for Brazilian dummies
Brazil's biggest current affairs magazine ran a cover story on the topic of Big Data. Why is that important to readers, after all?
Business intelligence is also security intelligence: RSA
If system logs weren't originally created for security, why isn't business data also being used? And can we automate defensive decisions where we can create self-defending networks?
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.