Big Data for small businesses
It has been estimated that we would have generated 40,000 exabytes, or 40 trillion gigabytes (GB), of data by 2020. That is equivalent to 5,200 GB of ...
Emergence of big data needs ‘scientist’ to gain competitive advantage
OVER the last decade or so, the promise of big data has reignited new opportunities for innovation that have led to a favorable position for IT and th ...
Harnessing the Power of Big Data, Analytics and Travel Intelligence to Define the Future of Travel.
New sources of data and information are prompting travel brands to innovate in terms of how travel is sold, how travellers are serviced and how disrup ...
Microsoft Embraces Spark for Cloud-Based Big Data Analytics
Using this week's Spark Summit in San Francisco as a backdrop, Microsoft announced the general availability of Spark for Azure HDInsight, the company' ...
Dropbox partnered with HP Enterprise when it decided to ditch Amazon
When Dropbox transferred most of its data away from Amazon Web Services earlier this year, it partnered with HP Enterprise to build out its data cente ...
ODPi Helps the ASF Accelerate the Big Data Ecosystem
There were a lot of great activities and sessions at the recent Apache: Big Data North America in Vancouver, B.C. I enjoyed the technical level of the ...
Data Governance in a Big Data World: Companies and Solutions
Data Governance represents a set of processes that ensure corporate data assets are formally managed throughout the enterprise. Data Governance ensure ...
What is the promise of big data? Computers will be better than humans
Big data as a concept has in fact been around longer than computer technology, which would surprise a number of people.
Back in 1944 Wesleyan Univers ...
