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 ...

In the past year, big data has emerged as one of the most closely watched trends in IT. Organizations today are generating more data in a single day than that the entire Internet was generated as recently as 2000. The explosion of “big data”–much of it in complex and unstructured formats–has presented companies with a tremendous opportunity to leverage their data for better business insights through analyti ...

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 ...

The Cassandra SF 2011 summit on July 11th 2011 promises to be a ‘must-go’ event for any one working with “Big Data”. The Cassandra community has grown so much in the last year, that now the organizers have a larger venue, with two rooms set aside for presentations, multiple rooms set aside for Birds of a Feather talks, committer meetups, and other small discussions. The agenda includes: Use Cases: Everyone ...

We have an excellent round of speakers & topics for Big Data Cloud’s Monthly June 3rd Meetup: Session 1: Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands for big data using AWS Topics Covered: The tradeoffs of storage on S3, EBS, and HDFS Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands Latencies, Prices, and stretchy clusters From: 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm Speaker: Paul Baclace Bio: Paul is a veteran Software Engineer of 9+ s ...

On the same day that IBM passed Microsoft in market cap, Big Blue showed how it will ride the growth of big data to continue its momentum. IBM announced a new $100 million investment for future data analytics along with new services and software aimed at helping improve data analysis and new services for IT professionals. The news, shared at an event at its Watson Research Center, highlights the work IBM ha ...

Yes, we are at the end of another year and so, let’s just do the ritual and go over the predictions lists (your mom and pop’s list included!) that are out there on the blogosphere. Well, we did so and found out some very interesting things – worth mentioning on this blog! Among the top 10 predictions for 2001 made by IDC, “Big Data Analytics” happens to be one of them. It’s comes to as a no surprise to us! ...

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It’s ironic how all of a sudden Vertica is changing its focus from being a column-only database to claiming to be an Analytic Platform. If you’ve used an Analytic Platform you know it’s more than just bolting in a layer of analytic functions on top of a database. But that’s how Vertica claims it’s now a full-blown analytic platform when in fact their analytics capability is rather thin. For instance, their ...