REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 11, 2013 — More than 75 percent of midsize to large businesses are implementing big data-related solutions within the next 12 months — with customer care, marketing and sales departments increasingly driving demand, according to new Microsoft Corp. research released today. via Customers Rapidly Adopting Big Data Solutions — Driven By Marketing, Sales and More — Reports New Microsoft Re ...

There's a lot more to Microsoft's big data strategy than a Hadoop partnership with Hortonworks. In fact, Hadoop is just the beginning of what Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell describes as "an information production line." You don't hear much about Microsoft in the big data market, but the company wants the world to know it has big plans. In fact, it's living big data through its Bing search engine, ...

As we roll into 2013, a general truth dawns unto us, as we peer into our dashboards with various financial and market graphs and numbers - the truth that the year 2013 would be the year of the “Big Data Analytics”. 2012 will be known as the year of the POCs’ in the Big Data space, where we, consulting companies and product companies as well, worked tirelessly to prove the concepts and validate the promises ...

The Harvard Business Review called it the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Now, SiSense and Microsoft are bringing all these sexy data scientists together at Big Data Date Night, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The event will include a keynote, lightning presentations from guest speakers, and networking opportunities for attendees. [button color="red" link="http://bigdatadatenight.eventbrite.com/" size= ...

Guess who benefits when two industry giants compete with each other offering exactly the same set of services? It is RightScale! While the Cloud ecosystem is still recovering from the euphoria of witnessing Microsoft and Google launch IaaS, RightScale is busy porting their ServerTemplates to both the Public Clouds. They are in an enviable position where every new IaaS provider wants to be a part of their pl ...

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 ...

The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

Another study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and sponsored by AT&T, estimates that cloud computing could enable companies to save $12.3 billion off their energy bills. That translates into carbon emission savings of 85.7 million metric tons per y ...

Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data based on Google's MapReduce paper, it provides an alternative to Apache Hadoop. Daytona was created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research. It's designed to help scientists take advantage of Azure for working wit ...

At la 2006, today, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo collectively announced that they will be partnering to create schema.org, a resource for site owners and developers to learn about structured data and gain insight into how to improve their sites’ search results. The site adds more than 100 new forms of website markup for content ranging from movies to places in an effort to standardize, and thus improve, how ...