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 ...

IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this turned out to be accurate. Irrespective of the numbers in the survey results, one thing is clear. Enterprises are embra ...

Discover how MapReduce and cloud computing are ideal for dealing with lots of data At times, you need to be able to access more physical and virtual resources to achieve complex compute-intensive results, but setting up a grid system within an organization can face resource, logistical, and technical hurdles; even some political ones. Cloud computing comes to the rescue in this case. It also combines perfec ...

Millions of tweets run through Twitter. It's the poster child for big data on the Web. To get data out of Twitter and use it to track sentiment requires tools with considerable processing and computational capabilities. BigSheets is a tool created by IBM that takes terabytes or even petabytes of Web data and turns it into information that provides business intelligence. The tool can be used for structured o ...

We wonder if Ray Ozzie ever thought that he would someday looking from Microsoft's executive suite to see IBM release his Lotus Notes creation into the cloud. That's what IBM did today. Lotus Notes is now as much a cloud platform as it has ever been with a set of new features that have traditionally only been available on-premise. Before we dive into the details of the news, let's look at Lotus Notes from a ...

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 ...

SMBs in India may soon have a cloud over their horizons—but a good cloud this time around! Hewlett Packard India and Bharti Enterprises are engaging in detailed discussions to jointly offer cloud-computing services to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). They will begin with tier-II and tier-III cities. Both companies bring unique strengths to the deal, and these strengths will benefit users. HP will co ...