VMware Puts Virtual Spin on Big Data
VMware has long been known as the king of virtualization. But during this week’s VMworld 2012 show in…
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Big Data Startup Sqrrl Raises $2M, Focuses on Security Challenges
Sqrrl, a Big Data startup that specializes in software based on Apache Accumulo, an open source data storage…
SAP Offers Partner Incentives to Further Boost HANA Adoption
Enterprise software giant SAP mentioned some impressive adoption numbers for HANA, its in-memory data platform, during a press…
SAP: We Love Linux
BOSTON – With its large portfolio of proprietary applications, SAP is a software company few folks would associate…
SMBs Have Big Expectations for Big Data
For years, the “cloud” has been the king of nebulous technology terms. But there’s a new contender, it…
MemSQL Rides In-Memory Rocket, SQL Legacy for Big Data
San Francisco-based MemSQL released a new database that the startup says will give companies struggling with Big Data the benefits…
Kognitio Ups Hadoop Integration Ante
Kognitio has introduced a solution it says will help companies reduce the amount of time required to run…
VMware Open Source Project Serengeti brings Hadoop to Virtualization
The open source Hadoop project is getting a real boost today from virtualization vendor VMware. Getting Hadoop up…
Cloudera Updates Enterprise Hadoop
As demand for Big Data technologies grows, one technology has stood head and shoulders above all others –…
Big Data Business Plan Should Precede Technology Selection
If there is anything as big as Big Data, it’s enterprise interest in using it to create business…
Survey: 70 Percent of Organizations Have Big Plans for Big Data
If your business hasn’t already devoted some IT resources to Big Data, there’s a good chance that it…
Zynga’s Cloud Journey: Delivering Apps in the Hybrid Cloud
LAS VEGAS – Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand is not the typical kind of technology executive to keynote the…
Actuate, Cloudera Team for Big Data Business Intelligence
Actuate and Cloudera are working to ease the way for BIRT developers to integrate with the latter’s Apache…
Teradata Debuts In-Memory System for SAS Analytics
Today, during the SAS Global Forum in Orlando, Fla., data warehousing specialist Teradata launched a new Big Data analytics system…
10gen Aims to Increase Enterprise Adoption of MongoDB NoSQL Database
One way for organizations to deal with Big Data challenges is by using a NoSQL database such as…
SAP Acquires Syclo for Mobile App Momentum
Sanjay Poonen, the head of SAP’s mobility division and president the Global Solutions division, took the stage during…
SAP Unveils Ambitious Plans for Database Market
The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to…
IBM Stresses Simplification with DB2 Update
With lots of new options for storing and analyzing data available to companies, it’s not surprising IBM is…
Big Data Pros Are Made, Not Born
Companies are understandably excited about Hadoop’s potential to help them derive business benefits from their swelling volumes of…
Meeting Challenge of Monitoring Big Data in the Cloud
Modern Big Data application architectures are all about distributed development and resources. When it comes to running apps,…
Oracle Database Certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Oracle 6
Of all the applications and hardware Oracle has, the software giant is still perhaps best known for its…
Study: Cloudy Job Forecast Calls for Over a Half Million New IT Jobs
The clouds will rain revenue and jobs over the next five years, according to an SAP-sponsored study (PDF) conducted by…
How Big Vendors Are Approaching Big Data
From in-memory computing to columnar databases, a slew of technologies promise to help companies handle larger data sets …
Making a Business Intelligence Case for Columnar Databases
A couple of years ago, columnar databases were a hot topic in business intelligence circles; today, not so…
IBM’s Watson Takes to Cloud for Big Data
Watson started as an IBM research project that famously ended up clobbering its human competition on “Jeopardy!” a…
Symantec Fights Big Data Sprawl With Data Insight 3.0
Vendors are selling Big Data as a kind of Jedi Knight that adds value to the enterprise through…
SAP Performance Management, Meet HANA
SAP today announced support for its HANA platform from the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) application, version…
Market for Big Data Getting, Well, Big
The market for Big Data solutions will grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015,…
SAS Jumps on Hadoop Bandwagon
Confirming the red-hot status of Apache Hadoop, an open source data architecture for processing large data sets, SAS…
Backupify Offers ‘Snapshots,’ Piece of Mind for Salesforce.com Data
Cloud-based backup service provider Backupify has introduced Snapshot for Salesforce CRM, a one-time backup and download service for…
MarkLogic Latest to Join Ranks of Hortonworks Hadoop Partners
The partnerships keep coming for Hortonworks, a provider of Hadoop services and support as well as Hadoop-compatible software.…
Hortonworks, Microsoft Team for Hadoop-Excel Support
Hortonworks, a maker of a Hadoop distribution bearing its namesake and a provider of related support and training…
Survey: Less than a Third of IT Pros ‘Get’ Big Data
Big data is big news lately, but not all IT professionals are clear on what the term means. According…
Big Data Buyer’s Guide, Part Two: IBM, SAS, Pentaho and More
In Part One of this series on Big Data solutions, we compared Oracle Exalytics and SAP HANA. But…
Eight Business-changing Ways to Use Big Data
In today’s data-rich enterprise, Hadoop gives enterprises a much-needed alternative to traditional relational databases. Hadoop is an open…
Oracle Updates Advanced Analytics with Open Source R
Enterprises can look at their data in many different ways. One of them is by using the open…
TrackVia Rolls Out New Build-Your-Own App Features
Cloud-based database provider TrackVia just introduced a set of new features that add more collaboration and reporting functionality…
Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities with Kettle
Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is bringing Big Data transformation capabilities into the open source fold. Pentaho…
Enkata Updates Architecture for Big Data
Enkata, a provider of cloud-based customer experience analytics and workforce optimization solutions, is seeing the needs of its…
Are There Enough Data Scientists to Go Around?
Big data and the challenges of analyzing it have never been more important to enterprises. However, if you…
Birst Wants to Democratize Big Data
Organizations of all sizes, not just large enterprises, have growing stores of data. Until now, however, Birst CEO…
Oracle’s Big Data Powered by Cloudera’s Hadoop
Big Data startup Cloudera is getting a big vote of confidence from Oracle. Oracle today announced the availability of the…
Hadoop Secures 1.0 Release
In the world of Big Data, Hadoop is the big thing. Yet even though Hadoop has become the…
Birst Aims for Analytics Sweet Spot with In-Memory Database
While a growing number of vendors are introducing in-memory solutions to help companies get more bang for their…
HP Combines Autonomy and Vertica for Big Data
HP (NYSE: HPQ) is harnessing the technologies of recent acquisitions, Autonomy and Vertica, in its newly expanded Information…
Ten Reasons to Combine CRM and BPM
Most, if not all, mid-to-large organizations have some form of customer relationship management (CRM) system. Many of these…
Will IBM Watson Transform Analytics?
Business intelligence and analytics software is the most widely used technology among more than 4,000 information technology (IT)…
Big Data Attracts Big Money
The move towards Big Data and NoSQL is being fuelled by big money, as investors bet on the…
Oracle CRM and Business Intelligence in Two Real-World Environments
Each year, Oracle opens its customer doors to the press at its annual Oracle OpenWorld event. Enterprise Apps…
SAP Unveils In-Memory Data Warehouse, Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a range of new solutions spanning business intelligence, in-memory analytics, data warehousing and…