Zillow: Two-thirds of employees are IT workers
Real estate site Zillow has roughly 150 employees today and 100 of them are information technology workers. It takes a lot of folks to maintain a database with data on 33 million homes--and counting.
Real estate site Zillow has roughly 150 employees today and 100 of them are information technology workers. It takes a lot of folks to maintain a database with data on 33 million homes--and counting.
Oracle's TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g Release 2 comes rivals like SAP are touting their in-memory capabilities.
Business units are funding big data projects separately. Big Data is a top three priority at Walmart and Intuit.
Hewlett-Packard is expected to report a solid fiscal third quarter, but worries have analysts questioning whether the company is ultimately about growth or an "IT superstore" that will live and die by cost cutting.HP on Tuesday is expected to report third quarter earnings of 90 cents a share on revenue of $27.
Teradata's latest additions to its unified data architecture aim to deeply integrate its data warehouse systems, Aster's discovery platform, Hadoop and best-of-breed hardware.
Customers whacked by JP Morgan Chase's information system debacle---the bank's online banking site was down for three days---finally got an apology, but it's still a little fuzzy about what exactly went wrong.
Sun Microsystems has made a lot of progress in recent quarters: It has become more efficient, stabilized spending, transitioned to new products and made smart acquisitions like MySQL in a quest to offer a complete software stack. But there is one lingering question: Can the company grow?
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Yahoo outlined how it's going to use data from its partnerships with Facebook and Twitter, its use of Hadoop in data warehousing and its analytics plan.
The SANS Institute report on the state of security circa 2007 is enough to make you want to pull your ethernet cord out. Is anything out there secure?