Category Archives: Business
18 February 2013: Datacenter Dynamics
Amazon Launches Redshift Data Warehouse Service Excerpt: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the wide availability of Amazon Redshift, a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the Cloud. Read more: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/02/amazon-launches-redshift-data-warehouse-service Related articles Overview of Amazon … Continue reading
12 February 2013: Enterprise Irregulars
We Have Big Data But Do We Also Have the Big Picture? Excerpt: Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times today about a quixotic attempt by some in congress to cut funding for social research, which, to my mind, … Continue reading
11 February 2013: InformationWeek
MasterCard Just Took a Stake in a Hot Big Data Startup Excerpt: Last week, the company’s subsidiary, MasterCard Advisors, took an undisclosed stake in a big data analytics company called Mu Sigma. The two will offer joint products together using … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Consumer, Notable News, Retail
Tagged big data analytics, bigdata, Louie Yan, MasterCard, MasterCard Advisors, Mu Sigma, Sam Kumarsamy, Shankar Gopidas, Tap the 90
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1 February 2013: GigaOM
IBM Buys Big Data Analytics Company Star Analytics Excerpt: IBM is buying still more analytics expertise, picking up the software portfolio of Star Analytics, a company with expertise in automating the movement and management of workloads in hybrid computing environments. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Notable News, Technology
Tagged Amazon Web Services, big data, big data analytics, hybrid computing, IBM, Louie Yan, Microsoft, Oracle, Sam Kumarsamy, Shankar Gopidas, Star Analytics, Tap the 90
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22 January 2013: Enterprise Apps Today
Marketers to Boost Big Data Analytics Spending in 2013 Excerpt: Marketers are prepared to increase their spending on Big Data analytics this year, according to a study from Infogroup Targeting Services and Yesmail Interactive, two companies that operate under the Infogroup umbrella. … Continue reading
17 January 2013: Dark Reading
Big Data Will Play a Key Role in Security’s Future, Study Says Excerpt: In a report issued Wednesday (PDF), the security company offered a look at how data analytics will be applied to IT security, and how enterprises can ride the … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Business, Research, Science, Security
Tagged bigdata, Data analysis, Louie Yan, Sam Kumarsamy, Security, Shankar Gopidas, Tap the 90
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14 January 2013: CMS Wire
Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics Market Let by IBM, SAS; New Entrants Compete Excerpt: That out of the way, the vendors that made it into the Wave this time around are: Angoss Software, IBM, KXEN, Oracle, Revolution Analytics, Salford … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Business, Research
Tagged big data, big data analytics, Gualtieri, IBM, KXEN, Louie Yan, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, Revolution Analytics, Sam Kumarsamy, Shankar Gopidas, StatSoft, Tibco
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14 January 2013: Fast Company
How Big Data Keeps Cable TV Watchers Hooked Excerpt: For Time Warner Cable, one of America’s largest cable and broadband firms, Big Data helps determine the course of both their marketing efforts and their network infrastructure. In terms of Time Warner … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Business, Consumer, Entertainment, Media
Tagged big data, big data analytics, Cablevision, Comcast, Hulu, Louie Yan, Netflix, Sam Kumarsamy, Shankar Gopidas, Tap the 90, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable
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7 January 2013: Computer Reseller News
Partners and Priorities: Cisco’s Channel Chief Talks Exclusively to CRN Excerpt: As Bruce Klein succeeded Keith Goodwin atop Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO)’s Worldwide Partner Organization a few months ago, Cisco partners told CRN they wanted continuity and consistency: two hallmarks of what … Continue reading
18 February 2013: Biztech
Businesses Move Security to the Cloud Excerpt: Phil Hochmuth, an analyst for IDC, says organizations such as The Sak Brand Group realize savings from running a cloud security service across hundreds or thousands of machines. Read more: http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2013/02/businesses-move-security-cloud Related articles … Continue reading →