IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire i2, a maker of intelligence analytics tools for crime and fraud prevention. IBM has announced an agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. i2, with more than 4,500 customers in 150 countri ...

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows. The report is based on responses from 325 IT managers, business users and consultants at small, medium and large companies. Slightly more than a third of the respondents said they are currently running some ...

Hadoop, the data analytics-for-huge-data-sets invention of Apache Chairman Doug Cutting that found its original home at Yahoo, made some big news this week at the fifth annual Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. First, it was revealed that Hadoop officially—but not "spiritually"—will break away from Yahoo and be shepherded by a new VC-funded company called Hortonworks, named after the Dr. Seuss elephant ch ...

When your relational database takes longer to process your data than to collect it, it's time to call in big data technology, said panelists at Interop. Not everyone is sure whether they have big data or not, or whether they need a NoSQL system to handle it. One way to find out, said one adopter of a NoSQL approach, is to ask yourself whether it is taking you longer to process your data than it did to colle ...

Among the continued maturation of Cloud computing and increasing competition between tablet manufacturers, 2011 is expected to see higher use of multi-terabyte datasets for business intelligence and analytics, otherwise known as “big data”. According to statistics from IDC, data use is expected to grow by as much as 44 times, amounting to some 35.2 zettabytes (ZB - a billion terabytes) globally. However, th ...

Success in the Big Data era is about more than size. It's about getting insight from these huge data sets more quickly. As explored in our recent cover story, experienced practitioners are taking advantage of in-database analytics processing, breakthrough techniques such as MapReduce and innovative, new environments such as Hadoop to handle big data volumes and new data types with speed and ease. Success in ...