Self-service business intelligence (BI) isn't fulfilling its promise, according to a recent study by Logi Analytics.
IBM this week announced its Watson Analytics service and other data-driven offerings would soon be available on its Cloud marketplace.
Two startups emerged from stealth with strategies to improve the success rate of Big Data projects and completely redesign the way enterprises store and analyze large amounts of different kinds of data, taking advantage of cloud computing capabilities.
Acquisition of BlueKai Audience Data Marketplace pays off with product designed to help enterprises target customers.
Technical and financing agreements are latest in competition among Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR.
Vendors scramble to help enterprises move their Big Data analytics to the cloud in an exploding market.
It features speedier queries, improved query-dependent allocation of resources and better SQL-on-Hadoop functionality.
Hadoop connectors are now available for Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery and Cloud Datastore.
SAS this week announced updates to its data management software that include Big Data virtualization.
Some major investors this week infused Cloudera with $160 million in funding, much of which the company said will be used to invest in engineering resources to extend its Apache Hadoop community contributions.
NetApp recently announced unified, scale-out storage systems designed to let enterprises manage and control data via one storage and data management platform.
To generate interest in its enterprise-class Watson supercomputer platform now being offered as a service, IBM is encouraging mobile app developers to harness its "cognitive computing" power in a developer challenge contest.
We look at impact of mobile, cloud, big data, and social media on IT in 2012 and how the technologies will be important in 2013.
Not surprisingly, big-data-a-la-Big-Blue has a distinctly dollars-and-cents flavor to it.
Cloud computing, mobile applications, and big data coalesced in 2012 and will shape IT in 2013 and beyond.
Cut the cost and improve the accuracy of SAP system copy chores.
What you need to know about Hadoop benefits, scalability, and best practices.
Social content is rich with information, but integrating it with other enterprise data can leave it isolated and unused. We explore how to wisely integrate the two.
Although relational databases will continue to be used for high-speed online transaction processing, conventional relational databases have clearly exhausted their usefulness for business analytics. What’s ahead for database technology?
Tight budgets led to look closely at the cloud and encryption solutions. What will grab IT’s attention in 2012?