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  • Interop 2013: Big data is a big but young market

    A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.

  • Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

    Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

  • Oracle expands data sources for business intelligence software

    Oracle has revised two of its business intelligence products, giving users the ability to wrest intelligence from a wider range of data sources, including spreadsheets, social media sites and Hadoop deployments.

  • Tableau applies business intelligence to cloud data

    Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software has updated its namesake software with additional tools for connecting to the sources of data in the cloud.

  • Jaspersoft 5.0 BI suite gets new HTML5 visualisation engine

    Jaspersoft 5.0 has a revamped visualisation engine, the reporting and analysis suite doing away with an Adobe Flash-based visualisation engine in favour of one using HTML5 web standards.

  • Hadoop updates from Cloudera, MapR, Splunk

    As organisations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded use.

  • Oracle, Fujitsu team on Sparc64 'Athena' chip

    With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena.

  • Supercomputing specialist Cray targets enterprise big data

    Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company.

  • IBM introduce preconfigured analytics servers

    IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.

  • EMC adds purpose built Hadoop appliance to range

    Among a flurry of announcements today at its annual user conference, EMC announced it will be distributing it's a free version of Apachee Hadoop and a licensed version for enterprises as well as a pre-configured appliance for big data analytics tasks.

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  • Top data visualisation and management tools

    You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualisation useful, whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text or to try to explain complex issues to a non-technical audience.

  • TiVo chooses virtualisation for agile provisioning

    TiVo found a way to create a more agile provisioning method and offer developers cloned databases with which they could test code without worrying about blowing up their joint test environment.

  • Internal clouds: More than virtualising servers

    Less than two percent of enterprises have deployed internal cloud computing networks, and vendors are just beginning to provide the proper tools necessary to build them.

  • Linux starts to take a more central IT role

    IT managers are now running key applications and databases on Linux-based systems as open-source software penetrates deeper into corporates.





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