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 ...

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! ...

IBM is snapping up yet another business analytics player. After purchasing OpenPages last week, Big Blue is now laying down $1.7 billion in an all-cash deal to acquire Netezza. Netezza provides high-performance analytics in a data warehousing appliance that claims to handle complex analytic queries 10 to 100 times faster than traditional systems. Netezza appliances puts analytics into the hands of business ...

Hadoop and other tools can unlock critical insights from unfathomable volumes of corporate and external data In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics, and other actionable information to help decide on their next move. Those data sets, along with their associated tools, platforms, and a ...

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 ...