Big Data Startup BIME Raises $4M
BIME Analytics, a French company that offers a stack of business intelligence services (BI) and tools in the…
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Big Data and Customer Metrics: Time for a Change?
Big Data is often described by citing three of its characteristics: volume, velocity and variety. While many people…
Big Data Drives Enterprise Software Growth: IDC
Big Data solutions helped tech companies achieve a moderately healthy rise in enterprise software sales during the first…
SAP Updates HANA, Forges Big Data Alliances at TechEd
SAP kicked off its TechED conference in Las Vegas this week just as the German business software maker…
3 Tips for Solving Big Data Skills Shortage
Shortages of scarce skills usually create two things: higher salaries for the desired skills and creative approaches for…
Hadoop 2.0 Spins New Big Data YARN
The open source Apache Hadoop project has become synonymous in recent years with the Big Data ecosystem. Today…
No Hadoop Expert? No Problem
Anecdotal evidence and analyst firm surveys suggest a big surge in demand for Hadoop experts. In fact, the…
Review: Data Stewardship Platform Eases ERP Migration
With over 17 years of data migration experience and half of their customer base coming from the Fortune…
3 Rules for Data-driven Architecture
At a recent conference, Dave Turek of IBM asserted that the future computing architecture would have data rather…
Capgemini Intros Big Data Analytics Solution on Amazon Web Services
Capgemini, the provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is partnering with Amazon on Elastic Analytics, a business…
How to Choose a Hadoop Distribution
By Michele Nemschoff, MapR Technologies Apache Hadoop has gotten a lot of press, but choosing the right Hadoop…
Cloudera Open Sources Sentry Tech to Secure Big Data
In all the hype surrounding Big Data and its potential benefits, little time has been spent talking about…
Reasons to Re-architect to the Cloud
By Mik Lernout When you think of deploying applications to the cloud, what comes to mind? Web and…
Hadoop in the Enterprise: Don’t Overpromise
Increasing numbers of IT shops are considering, and in some cases doing, “Hadoop in the enterprise.” That is,…
Big Data App Startup WibiData Raises Millions
WibiData is betting once enterprises start getting a handle on Big Data management, their attention will turn toward…
Splunk, Hortonworks Team for Big Data BI
Splunk, a provider of real-time Big Data intelligence software, and Hadoop innovator Hortonworks are tackling interoperability between their…
School of Data Science
A growing number of companies find themselves in the market for data scientists. Seventy percent of organizations recently…
4 Barriers to Big Data Success — and Ways to Overcome Them
The good news: At a recent IBM conference on Big Data, users confirmed a growing body of evidence…
Pivotal Aims to Disrupt Cloud, Big Data Analytics
A decade or so back, enterprise applications sat on their own dedicated server. The rule of one app…
SAP Unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud
SAP on May 7 announced HANA Enterprise Cloud, opening up a high-performance, cloud-enabled deployment option for organizations that…
Big Data, Big Opportunities for DBAs
Amid all the talk about Big Data, questions keep popping up about how the database administrator (DBA) fits…
Cloudera Accelerates Big Data with Impala GA
Six months ago, enterprise Big Data vendor Cloudera announced the open source Impala project. The goal of Impala…
4 Hot Open Source Big Data Projects
It’s difficult to talk about Big Data processing without mentioning Apache Hadoop, the open source Big Data software…
Actian Snags ParAccel for Big Data Management, Analytics
Redwood City, Calif.-based Actian, a Big Data management company, announced today that it had acquired ParAccel, an analytics database…
Using Big Data to Fight Fraud
If it was easy to detect fraud, there wouldn’t be much of it around. But these days, the…
Big Data Success: Focus on Customer, not Cost
A recent Sloan Management Review continuation of their studies of successful Big Data practitioners highlights an often-misunderstood strategy…
5 More Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps
As we’ve already noted, pairing Big Data with analytics is one of the best ways to derive business…
Mulesoft Raises $37 Million for App Integration
Getting data out of one app and into another is big business. It’s a business that enterprise integration…
MapR Brings Open Source Hadoop to Github and Ubuntu Linux
Big Data startup MapR is expanding its open source and Linux footprint this week. MapR recently announced a…
5 Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps
Big Data and analytics are two of the most dominant business intelligence trends for 2013. So bringing the…
MapR Hauls $30M for Enterprise Big Data
It’s time for Big Data to make a serious push into the corporate data center, argues MapR Technologies. And…
Big Data Open Source App Framework Gets Funded
The world of Big Data is full of big money. The latest group to raise capital is Big…
Gartner: Welcome to Year of Big Data
Big Data may have been making big headlines — and sparked more than a few multimillion-dollar deals — in recent…
Teradata Enhances Visualization Capabilities of Big Data Platform
One of the top 10 business intelligence trends for 2013, based on interviews with experts conducted by Enterprise…
Big Data Market to Reach $48.3B by 2018
There’s big money to be made in Big Data, according to a forecast from Albany, NY-based Transparency Market Research.…
Dell Accelerates Moves to SAP HANA
SAP’s HANA in-memory database is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the history of SAP. While HANA is…
EMC Debuts Greenplum Unified Analytics Appliance for Big Data
EMC is throwing down the analytics gauntlet and claiming a Big Data first in the process. The data…
SAP Marks Another ‘Best Year Ever’ with HANA, Cloud Growth
While SAP’s past is strongly rooted in on-premises software, its future likely rests in the cloud. That became…
Marketers to Boost Big Data Analytics Spending in 2013
Marketers are prepared to increase their spending on Big Data analytics this year, according to a study from…
Zettaset Raises Millions to Orchestrate Big Data
There has been a lot of Big Money invested in Big Data in recent years. You can now…
Big Data Insights Elude Marketers: Survey
Business software providers like IBM, SAP and Oracle are pouring substantial resources, not to mention their fair share…
HP Launches Big Data Certification Program
Want to get schooled in Big Data? IT systems and services provider Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced a new…
Data Scientist Shortage? Try Team Building
Data scientists are as sought after as a real Rolex at a thrift store – and just about…
Big Data and Beyond: 10 BI Trends for 2013
Experts interviewed by Enterprise Apps Today believe Big Data will remain the biggest trend in business intelligence for…
Splunk Intros More Big Data SDKs
San Francisco-based Splunk is taking a page out of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s playbook in order to build developer interest…
Oracle Debuts Big Data Appliance X3-2 and Updated Hadoop Connectors
Oracle today unveiled Big Data Appliance X3-2, a combined server hardware and software offering that the company is…
Oracle Snaps up DataRaker
Oracle announced that it is acquiring DataRaker, a firm that specializes in cloud-based analytics for energy companies and water…
Does Cloudera Have a Big Data Exit Strategy?
Big Data is big business — a truth that Cloudera CEO Mike Olson understands better than most. Olson…
Cloudera Intros Hadoop Real Time Query Engine for Big Data
The Apache Hadoop project is at the core of the Big Data revolution. One of the key enablers…
Cloud Security Alliance Sets Sights on Big Data Security
Is Big Data ushering in an era of big security challenges? The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) isn’t taking…