oday IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is helping the City of Dublin use Big Data to identify and solve the root causes of traffic congestion in its public transport network throughout the city, which means improved traffic flow and better mobility for commuters. Integrating data from a citywide network of sensors with geospatial data means that city officials are able to better monitor and manage traffic in rea ...

Cloudera on Tuesday announced the general release of its Impala query engine for Hadoop after six months of beta testing by more than 40 customers. It's the first so-called SQL-on-Hadoop product to reach general release. But with a bevy of such systems on the way -- including options from IBM (Big SQL), Hortonworks (Stinger), MapR (Drill), Pivotal (HAWQ) and Teradata (SQL-H) -- the question is whether Impal ...

My oxymoronish title aside, two esteemed professors at an Ivy League school say that while those in the marketing world continue to struggle with how to handle all the data they are accumulating, they may in fact be wasting their time and more than likely need to go on what they refer to as a “data diet.” The amount of data brands collect today from all the various channels: social media, email, mobile, and ...

Flash is now cheaper than most spinning disks -- and dramatically speeds up application and database performance, IBM says. What about Hana and Exadata? Everybody agrees that spinning disk drives will give way to solid state alternatives, but there's much more debate about what share of storage will eventually move to server DRAM, what share will move to flash-based storage options and just how soon disk dr ...

IBM is making a series of high-profile analytics announcements on Wednesday from its Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., a fitting location at the epicenter of big data activity. The themes of the announcements will sound familiar because they've been the subject of announcements by plenty of competitors in recent years, but IBM contends it's setting new standards of performance. There are two majo ...

Hadoop, the clear king of big-data analytics, is focused on batch processing. This model is sufficient for many cases (such as indexing the web), but other use models exist in which real-time information from highly dynamic sources is required. Solving this problem resulted in the introduction of Storm from Nathan Marz (now with Twitter by way of BackType). Storm operates not on static data but on streaming ...

With cloud, mobile, social and big data advances all happening at once and at lightning speed, how will shifts in technology impact the way businesses are run? According to Ginni Rometty, the first female CEO of IBM, it will change everything.Last night, speaking at an event organized by the nonprofit Council on Foreign Relations, Rometty predicted that data will be the basis of competitive advantage going ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karmasphere Integrates Its Big Data Analytics Suite With IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Software Karmasphere™, a Big Data Analytics company, today announced it is joining with IBM (NYSE:IBM) to help enterprise clients integrate and analyze traditional business data with a growing volume of unstructured data using Apache Hadoop-based software. Karmasphere has integrated its Big Data Analytics software including ...