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IT Life: Finding Health With Big Data
Flying doctor Mark Ratnarajah pilots a big data site for health service consumers
Intel Uses Wearables And Big Data To Help Study Parkinson’s
Intel announces a partnership with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, uses smartwatches to track symptoms of the incurable disease
Teradata Acquires Two Hadoop-Related Start-Ups
Revelytix and Hadapt will become part of Teradata’s R&D arm
Hortonworks, HP Tighten Relationship With £30m Investment
Hewlett-Packard makes a significant investment in the Hadoop distribution vendor Hortonworks
IT Life: How Databases Will Change The World
Open source databases that meet business challenges will produce great changes, says Patrik Saller
IBM Agrees Deal With Apple To Develop iOS Apps And Sell iPhones And iPads
IBM and Apple promise to redefine mobility by bringing enterprise tools and custom apps to iOS, along with a new sales and support agreement
Tata Invites Motorsport Fans To Find New Uses For F1 Data
The first of three challenges in the F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize is revealed, with the hope it can help the sport solve big data challenges
MapR Gets $110 Million To Improve Its Hadoop Distribution
The company closes its largest ever financing round, led by Google Capital
HP Autonomy Shareholder Lawsuit Settlement ‘Imminent’
HP is to settle shareholder claims against it over the Autonomy acquisition, with shareholders' attorneys to help pursue ex-Autonomy staff
Meg Whitman Buffs Up HP’s Past And Future
In HP's 75th year, Meg Whitman sported HP's 1977 wearable computer and promised a turnaround
Actian Integrates Hadoop With SQL
Actian distributes its database into Hadoop for faster Big Data work that can be carried out using widely-available SQL skills
IBM’s Watson Technology To Power New Elastic Storage Products
The algorithms that helped Watson win Jeopardy! will be used to simplify storage management
British Rowing Hopes Analytics Will Power Team GB To Olympic Glory
British Rowing agrees analytics partnership with SAS to boost the sport at elite and grass roots level
4 Ways To Keep Your Decision Scientists Happy
Data Scientists are hot property, but Decision Scientists are what you need to nurture, says Deepinder Dhingra
EMC World: vSphere Becomes The First Hypervisor To Virtualise SAP’s HANA
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger kicks off EMC World with a pitch for software defined data centres, and news that SAP's HANA in-memory database will run on vSphere
Research Proves Wearable Tech Increases Employee Productivity
Rackspace says the main challenge now is harvesting data generated by employees’ devices for analytics
Cisco Announces Managed Security Service
Cisco's Managed Threat Defence service will remotely monitor enterprise networks and identify threats based on Hadoop 2.0-based predictive analytics
IT Life: I’ve Been Doing Big Data For Ten Years!
Tendü Yogurtcu was working on Big Data before you heard of it. She likes open source and rates imagination over knowledge
Big Data: Marching Toward A Knowledge-Driven Society
Praveen Mandal from SGI explains the steps we will need to take to exploit the potential of Big Data and the Internet of Things
Altosoft Updates Insight Product With Predictive Analytics
Insight 5.0 adds greater scalability and process-based predictive analytics
Teradata Supercharges Analytics With Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750
The new hardware offers eight times more memory, three times more flash and 40 percent more processing power
Tim Harford: Don’t Be Quick To Trust Infographics
Sometimes, an infographic is just a more convincing way to lie, warns ‘undercover economist’ Tim Harford
HP Autonomy Pushes On With On Demand Service
An online version of HP Autonomy IDOL can give IBM's Watson a run for its money, says Robert Youngjohns
Teradata Universe: “Data Enables The New Economy”
The future will belong to companies that make data-driven decisions and value the trust of their customers, says Hermann Wimmer from Teradata
Google Adds GeoJSON Support For Mapping
Google has added support for the GeoJSON data format to the JavaScript Maps API, allowing developers to create richer maps
1010data Upgrades Big Data Discovery Tools
The company is also planning a QuickApps visual editor for users who want to create their own data-analytics applications
Intel Ditches Hadoop Distribution And Partners With Cloudera
Intel is to discontinue its own Hadoop distribution and instead partner Cloudera with a “significant investment”
NoSQL Vendor MarkLogic Announces Record Year
Says the growth in NoSQL database market will only accelerate
Viewsy: Tracking Movement Of Customers Without Threatening Their Privacy
London-based Viewsy, the winner of the Code_n competition, talks about its plans for the future