Big Data

Intel Touts High-End Xeon Chips For Big Data

The updated Intel Xeon E7 chip lineup offers up to 15 cores and a number of performance improvements

11 years ago

HP Was Aware Of Autonomy’s Accounting Practices – Report

HP may have been aware of certain key accounting practices by Autonomy before a whistleblower supposedly stepped forward

11 years ago

Open Data Institute Signs Up Five More International Partners

Osaka, Seoul, Sheffield, Philadelphia and Hawaii join the global movement to make better use of public sector data

11 years ago

HP Opens Portal For Vertica Big Data Developers

HP's Vertica Marketplace is a hub where developers, partners and customers can share tools created for the Vertica analytics platform

11 years ago

First UK Data Science Summer School To Open In August

The free five week course was developed by Pivigo Academy specifically for academics

11 years ago

IBM Technology Speeds Data Transfer

An analogue-to-digital converter developed by IBM could help improve Internet transfer speeds

11 years ago

Intel Software Suite Launch Targets Big Data Analytics

Intel builds upon its Hadoop distribution with the introduction of the Intel Data Platform for big data analytics

11 years ago

5 Myths of Dimensional Modelling

Data warehouses should be fast and accessible. Data modelling is the way to ensure this, says Ralph Kimball

11 years ago

Cloudera Offers Apache Spark For Hadoop Big Data

Creator of Hadoop Doug Cutting says the use of MapReduce engine for Big Data projects will decline, replaced by Apache…

11 years ago

Red Hat, Hortonworks Expand Hadoop Partnership

Hortonworks and Red Hat are to broaden their partnership with planned products including an HDP plug-in for Red Hat Storage

11 years ago

Microsoft Officially Brings Power BI Analytics To Office 365

Microsoft's business intelligence release brings big data analytics to one billion Office users

11 years ago

Government Invests £73m In UK Big Data

David Willetts has announced £73m of new funding for 55 projects related to data analytics, including the establishment of four…

11 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Big Data

Do you know all about Big Data and analytics? Try our quiz!

11 years ago

Twitter Starts Taking Applications For ‘Data Grants’

A few lucky research organisations will get free access to the platform's public and historical data

11 years ago

Learning Data Visualisation

To understand and communicate data, you must visualise it - for yourself and for other people - says Nathan Yau

11 years ago

Splunk Delivers Eclipse Plug-In

Splunk has added an Eclipse plug-in and updated its Python development kit as it seeks to drum up developer enthusiasm

11 years ago

Extreme Networks’ Purview Turns Net Management Into Big Data

Data capture from networks could drive business decisions, says Extreme Networks

11 years ago

Autonomy IDOL 10.5 Strengthens Ties With HP HAVEn Big Data Platform

HP Autonomy CTO Fernando Luicini explains closer integration with Hadoop, Vertica and ArcSight

11 years ago

Rackspace Brings Managed MongoDB ObjectRocket Service To Europe

The acquisition of ObjectRocket in 2013 is bearing fruit for Rackspace

11 years ago

Big Data: An Interdisciplinary Approach Is Crucial

To win at analytics, you need people versed in maths, technology and behavioural sciences, says Dhiraj Rajiram

11 years ago

Gartner: Businesses Must Rely On Predictive Metrics To Survive

Organisations are increasingly adopting technology that allows them to predict business disruptions using 'leading indicators', according to Gartner

11 years ago

MongoDB Targets Insurance Risk Management

MongoDB's database management system has a growing presence in big data decision making in the insurance industry, according to the…

11 years ago

Sharing Your Healthcare Data Is The Ethical Thing To Do

The NHS wants to share your healthcare data. Gayna Hart tells us that the scheme is safe - and it…

11 years ago

IBM Uses Big Data To Stop Hospital Infections

IBM is using big data techniques in an analytics system designed to help prevent infections spreading within hospitals

11 years ago

Apigee Buys InsightsOne For Big Data Analytics

Apigee has bolstered its big data credentials after adding InsightsOne to its API management capabilities

11 years ago

English GPs To Start Sharing Anonymised Patient Data

The Department of Health hopes the scheme, starting in March, will help inform better choices

11 years ago

DataSift Offers Access To Sina Weibo Data

The new service lets European businesses get an insight into the mind of a Chinese consumer

11 years ago

IBM Acquires Aspera For Fast Data Transfers

IBM is to acquire file-transfer specialist Aspera, to help with faster transfers of big data to the cloud

11 years ago

HP Announces Moonshot Servers For Telecoms, Web And Hosted Desktop

HP's latest Moonshot microservers address Big Data, telecoms and dynamic web applications

11 years ago

VMware Spin-off Pivotal To Invest £100m In Tech City

CEO Paul Maritz plants VMware-backed Big Data venture Pivotal in London's startup-ville

11 years ago