Non-Stop Platform Backed by Global Team of Worldwide Experts San Ramon, CA – February 8, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced it has made its WANdisco Distro (WDD) available for free download. WDD is the first fully tested, production-ready version powered by Apach ...

SUMMARY: It’s no secret that mobile, big data and cloud computing are transforming IT. Sanjay Poonen, president of SAP’s mobile division, says companies need a single unified strategy to tackle them, not three separate ones. There is widespread agreement—across the globe and in every industry—that mobile, big data, and cloud computing are the three cornerstone issues of tomorrow’s business environment. In f ...

Research scientists, companies launching new products, and even governments are enthused about the potential of Big Data. Whether you buy into the idea that Big Data is something new and novel or just the latest term to reference new kinds of analytics, it is clear that innovators around the world are already delivering on new advances. Yet, at the same time that the tech and research communities are applau ...

As we roll into 2013, a general truth dawns unto us, as we peer into our dashboards with various financial and market graphs and numbers - the truth that the year 2013 would be the year of the “Big Data Analytics”. 2012 will be known as the year of the POCs’ in the Big Data space, where we, consulting companies and product companies as well, worked tirelessly to prove the concepts and validate the promises ...

I really like playing around with cutting edge technologies. One of them is GoodData CloudConnect, the tool for ETL and building GoodData projects. Since we released this new feature, I have dozens of ideas how the data from various sources can be easily transformed in the cloud. Recently, for example, I found myself wondering: “How about using the Google BigQuery API as a data source? What about visualizin ...

Agencies are struggling to keep pace with the growing staffing demands of managing large volumes of complex and variable data, known as big data.While the growth of federal data isn’t a new phenomenon, the variety of data from videos, emails and social media is forcing agencies to evaluate the skills needed to manage and make sense of the data, said Jeff Butler, a director at the Internal Revenue Service’s ...

The Harvard Business Review called it the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Now, SiSense and Microsoft are bringing all these sexy data scientists together at Big Data Date Night, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The event will include a keynote, lightning presentations from guest speakers, and networking opportunities for attendees. [button color="red" link="http://bigdatadatenight.eventbrite.com/" size= ...

William Shakespeare wrote: "What's past is prologue." Big Data surely builds on our rich past of using data to understand our world, our customers and ourselves. Now the world is flush and getting flusher in Big Data from cloud, mobile, and the Internet of things. What does it mean for enterprises? In a word: Opportunity. Firms have taken to Big Data. via What Should You Expect from Big Data in 2013? - Info ...

Big data market is expected to grow more than two-fold to USD 153.1 million (around Rs 840 crore) by 2014, over the last year, on the back of huge growth in volumes and diversity of data, a survey has said. Big Data technology allows businesses to manage large chunks of information and analyse to get business insights. Sectors adopting big data include telecom, healthcare, oil and gas which involve huge inf ...

All self-respecting executives of large businesses demand the best in attorneys and accountants. Would they manage without them? Would they buy do-it-yourself software and let untrained staff members fill in the blanks? Not on your life! So why do these same executives leave data analysis to just about anybody? We all know that we face serious legal and financial risks when doing business. Get some things w ...