This is just amazing – the kind of growth we have seen at BigDataCloud, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the help & support from all of you, BigDataCloud readers/members. Thanks to all of you for making it happen! For the meetup on this Thursday, September 8th, for the first time, we are having an industry track. We would be looking at various Big Data solutions as practiced in sprawling indus ...

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 ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to const ...

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 ...

We are witnessing stupendous demand for Big Data & Cloud professionals while on the other hand, data centric professionals, who are scarce to begin with, don’t have a dedicated job board to go to. Thus supporting this need of both employers and professionals, we decided to open up a job board on BigDataCloud.com. Employers can post their Big Data & Cloud jobs while professionals can upload their resumes. Fo ...

Download a full-length movie on your computer and you'll need about 700 megabytes of space. Now multiply that digital mass by 2.7 trillion. That's roughly how much digital data the world will spit out this year -- a mind-boggling pile of real-time information, which, when processed and analyzed, holds the key to faster service at retailers, better customer care at banks and speedier diagnosis when you visit ...

The Evolving Role of the Enterprise Data Warehouse in the Era of Big Data Analytics A white paper by Dr. Ralph Kimball The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) community has entered a new realm of meeting new and growing business requirements in the era of “Big Data.” A few of the common challenges include: extreme integration, semi- and un-structured data sources, petabytes of behavioral and image data accessed ...

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 ...

As Big Data and real-time insights are becoming significant for enterprises around the world, we can see a lot of developments going around in this domain. Recently, IBM unveiled new software and services to help clients more effectively gain competitive insight, optimize infrastructure and better manage resources to address Internet-scale data. The company has announced a whopping investment of $100 millio ...