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  • Massachusetts to tackle big data with MIT, Intel

    By Nick Barber | 30 May, 2012 22:38

    With several big data initiatives announced Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Governor Deval Patrick said he wants to make the state a hub for big data research.

  • Microsoft beats data-sorting record with new approach

    By Joab Jackson | 23 May, 2012 04:56

    Besting a record set by Yahoo in 2009, the research arm of Microsoft have deployed a new technique for quickly sorting large amounts of data, called Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS).

  • Tibco adds Hadoop support to its Spotfire in-memory analytics

    By Chris Kanaracus | 07 May, 2012 14:06

    Tibco has brought its Spotfire in-memory analytics software into the burgeoning ecosystem around Hadoop, an open-source framework for processing large sets of information, the company announced Tuesday.

  • SAP goes after SAS, IBM with predictive analytics software

    By Chris Kanaracus | 04 April, 2012 01:52

    SAP is hoping to stake out some turf in the predictive analytics software market with a new application, BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis software, which was announced Tuesday.

  • IBM releases DB2 version 10, the first big upgrade in four years

    By Joab Jackson | 03 April, 2012 14:07

    Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse software.

  • Apache promotes Sqoop as Top Level Project

    By Joab Jackson | 03 April, 2012 02:55

    As more organizations deploy Hadoop to analyze vast reams of information, they may find they need to transfer large amounts of data between Hadoop and their existing databases, data warehouses and other data stores. Now the volunteer developers behind a new connector designed to speed this data exchange have gotten the full support from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

  • IBM to develop telescope data analysis system

    By Joab Jackson | 02 April, 2012 14:05

    IBM is developing new data management and analysis technologies for what will be the world's largest radio telescope. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), due to become operational in 2024, will produce so much data that even tomorrow's off-the-shelf computers will have difficulty processing all of it, the company predicted.

  • IBM: Puzzles provide clues to better analysis

    By Joab Jackson | 23 March, 2012 08:14

    Today's large-scale data analysis may be a high-tech undertaking, but smart data scientists can improve their craft by observing how simple low-tech picture puzzles are solved, said an IBM scientist at the GigaOm conference.

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  • The big promise of big data

    By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

    For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

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