8 years ago047Dive Brief:
Big Data and business analytics revenues worldwide will grow from $130.1 billion in 2016 to more than $203 billion in 2020, according to a new IDC report.
The banking, discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, federal/central government and professional services industries are driving the majority of the growth,...
8 years ago054Just about every player in the Big Data and analytics game was in New York last week at the Strata + Hadoop World conference, to showcase their latest technologies.
Over 7,000 people attended the event where keynote speakers, including White House chief data scientist DJ Patil, laid out their visions for where machine learning,...
8 years ago051Big data is in many ways still a wild frontier, requiring wily smarts and road-tested persistence on the part of those hoping to find insight in all the petabytes. On Tuesday, IBM announced a new platform it hopes will make things easier.
Dubbed Project DataWorks, the new cloud-based platform is the first to integrate all types of...
8 years ago047As the internet social turf wars continue to mature, the land grab is becoming much better understood. With a few companies controlling 95 percent of the social data, the internet is more closed and much more controlled than ever before.
The term (and concept behind) big data has been thrown around a lot over the past 15 months. What...
8 years ago039The June 2016 big data market report indicates that global spending on big data technology is expected to surpass $46 Billion by the end of 2016. Besides profiling 150 leading ecosystem players in the Big Data arena, this report also covers 56 comprehensive vertical market case studies.
Complete report on global Big Data market spread...
8 years ago044IBM fancies itself a cognitive computing enabler. So it’s ditching most of the vestiges from its legacy computer business and, for better or for worse, going all in.
The 105-year-old Armonk, N.Y., company made news two weeks ago when it announced it would supply the brains behind a self-driving bus project planned for Washington...
8 years ago052Lillian Pierson, founder of Data Mania, presents her view on the convergence of IoT, cloud, and big data technologies, with an example from the healthcare industry.
Have you heard of medical radio-telemetry? Up until very recently, it’s been the closest thing that the medical field has had to remote, cloud-based intel on the human...
8 years ago045According to SAS, there is a misconception when it comes to the Internet of Things that the more data an organisation has the better, which often results in a surplus of unusable information.
When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), IoT Domain Lead at SAS Kevin Kalish has said that focusing on collecting big data often results...
8 years ago049Cray has always been associated with speed and power and its latest computing beast called the Cray Urika-GX system has been designed specifically for big data workloads.
What’s more, it runs on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform and supports open source big data processing tools like Hadoop and Spark.
Cray recognizes that...
8 years ago047In its new "Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide," research firm IDC forecasts revenues in the market will increase more than 50 percent over its five-year forecast period.
Worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow from nearly $122 billion in 2015 to $187 billion in 2019, according to the...
8 years ago041eBay announced today that it is acquiring Expertmaker, a Swedish company that specializes in analysis of big data with a machine-learning twist.
Expertmaker was founded in 2006; in its own words, the company’s “genetics-inspired multi-AI approach, extracts hidden value in your data.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. So...
8 years ago051In this special guest feature, Brian Irwin, VP of Strategy at SHYFT Analytics, takes a look at the three market dynamics driving life sciences organizations to evaluate new data analytics strategies and technologies as they transform into value-based care delivery models. He leads strategic account development and partnership initiatives...
8 years ago043Big business has been investing big in Big Data initiatives. But, to what end? A recently released Big Data executive survey, published by my firm, reports that nearly two-thirds of participating executives indicate that a Big Data initiative is in production at their firms. Yet, many of these investments have yet to produce tangible...