In-memory analytics, and databases, are reaching a disruptive tipping point. Why? Why now? How can enterprise IT put them to use effectively? If you are looking for the coolest IT trend for 2012, and a hot topic within that, it is an easy bet that ‘Big Data’ and ‘In-memory Analytics/DBs’ respectively could vie for the honors. By the same token, with any such attention and momentum comes a level of skepticis ...

Forrester published its first-ever Wave report for the emerging Hadoop market late last week and the results were surprising, both in terms of the "leaders wave" assessment and the absence of big vendors, including Microsoft, Oracle, and Teradata. The first surprise in "The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions, Q1 2012" report is that it includes such a wide variety of vendors. In the "leaders" wave ...

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 ...

A decade ago, the open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack began to transform web startup economics. As new open-source webservers, databases, and web-friendly programming languages liberated developers from proprietary software and big iron hardware, startup costs plummeted. This lowered the barrier to entry, changed the startup funding game, and led to the emergence of the current Angel/S ...

New innovations and new technologies are accumulating more data than ever before. Enterprises are becoming more data centric, lending to different types of applications, tools, networks and infrastructures to manage the massive volume of data. And it’s not limited to corporations, but to individuals as well. For example, you get in the car to head to your office, track your route, taking photos and marking ...

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 ...

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 ...

German software vendor Software AG has bought San Francisco-based Java-performance expert Terracotta with the goal of creating a cloud application platform to rival those from Software AG competitors such as Oracle, VMware and IBM. Unlike many competitive efforts, however, Software AG will rely heavily on the open source products that Terracotta has built and bought over the past several years. We’ve covere ...

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 ...