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Teradata Integrates Big Analytic Architecture

Excerpt: The Teradata Unified Data Architecture leverages the complementary value of best-in-class technologies from Teradata, Teradata Aster, and open source Apache Hadoop, to enable users to ask any question, against any data, with any analytic, at any time.

Monday’s announcement includes new software – Teradata Viewpoint, Teradata Connector, and Teradata Vital Infrastructure, and new hardware – Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2700 and the recently announced Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance. Utilizing the Teradata Unified Data Architecture, organizations can now deploy, support, manage, and seamlessly access all their data in an integrated and dynamic big data analytic architecture. Teradata’s integration of these technologies creates value which is more than the sum of the individual components.

Read more: http://manilastandardtoday.com/2013/03/04/teradata-integrates-big-analytic-architecture/

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IBM Big Data Technology Helps South Korea‘s Meteorological Administration

Excerpt: To allow for the torrents of data to be stored and available for real-time analysis, IBM has provided KMA and NMSC with the latest IBM storage technologies capable of recording 20 gigabytes (equivalent to 400,000 web pages) of data per second. With a total storage capacity of 9.3 petabytes (1 million gigabytes) it is South Korea’s most powerful data storage system to date.

Read more: http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Tech/124212_IBM_Big_Data_Technology_Helps_South_Korea’s_Meteorological_Administration_/

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Pushback Against “Big Data” Begins

Excerpt: It was inevitable that some would begin questioning the term and idea of “big data”, since it has become the hype word of the year. But what exactly are we talking about when discussing the huge surge in volume and variety of information moving through our enterprises?

Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/pushback-against-big-data-begins-7000011721/

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IBM Goes Big with MobileFirst Portfolio of Solutions

Excerpt: With MobileFirst, IBM has expanded the capabilities of IBM Worklight to simplify deployment with features like single sign-on capabilities for multiple applications. IBM also extended its context-based, mobile-access control solutions and expanded mobile-application vulnerability testing with support for Apple iOS apps in the latest release of AppScan.

Read more: http://www.newsfactor.com/news/IBM-Goes-Big-with-MobileFirst-Initiative/story.xhtml?story_id=111001U8UY7O&full_skip=1

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Excerpt: ParStream’s vision is to revolutionize the database market to enable real time big data analytics applications. To achieve this, the company is performing fundamental research and driving innovation in database technology. The results allow users to perform real-time analytics on big data at a significantly lower cost.

In areas like keyword monitoring, for example, ParStream is the analytics platform for Searchmetrics, a search and social analytics software company. The company monitors over 75 million domains and 100 million keywords on the world’s biggest search engines.

Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/it/article/massively-parallel-processing-of-big-data1/

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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

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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

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How Will Our Future Cities Look?

Excerpt: “Cities are reaching breaking point,” says Prof David Gann, who heads up Imperial College‘s Digital Economy Lab. “Traffic jams are getting worse, queues longer and transport networks more prone to delays, power outages more common.”…Technology companies such as Siemens, IBM, Intel and Cisco, believe that the cleverest cities will be those that are hooked into the network.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20770518

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Excerpt: MapR Technologies, a Hadoop technology leader, announced that it has collaborated with HP to develop, configure and test a Reference Architecture for Big Data workloads built on HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers. MapR Technologies tested the platform using industry standard benchmarks that validate the ROI and performance.

Read more: http://bi.siliconindia.com/news/MapR-Technologies-Announces-New-Reference-Architecture-for-Big-Data-Workloads-nid-141099.html

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Excerpt: The new service, Apigee Insights, looks at the community and draws connector points to create a better context about the individual and the community. It draws on different data points, such as from GitHub, API traffic, and Google analytics for its developer web pages to get a deeper understanding.

Anant Jhingran, Apigee vice president of products, said the goal is to get a 360-degree view of the developer. The results may have some noise, but it will also have signal to help customers form conclusions. Apigee Insights is a three-tier product that explores structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.

Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/a-new-data-analytics-platform-from-apigee-leverages-apis-google-analytics-and-other-data-for-insight-and-context/

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