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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.
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Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers
Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.
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Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud: Salesforce.com?
Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud?
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Infosys launches BigDataEdge platform for Big Data analytics
Indian business consulting and technology firm Infosys has become the latest company to dip a toe in the Big Data pond with the launch of its BigDataEdge tool, aimed at simplifying the analysis of Big Data to discover relevant information.
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Rackspace follows Amazon in beefing up its database tools
Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace has announced new capabilities for database hosting and management.
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Amazon introduces RedShift, a hosted data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise data warehouse deployments.
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Big Data vital to CERN Large Hadron Collider project, says CTO
When you're trying to learn more about the universe with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which generated 30 terabytes of data this year, using Big Data technology is vital for information analysis, according to CTO Sverre Jarp.
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IBM expands PureSystems line to include heavier workload duties
IBM has expanded its PureSystems line of pre-integrated systems to include new models to handle business analysis and online transaction processing.
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Oracle 12c database and Exadata X3 machine touted at OpenWorld
Oracle gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced at the weekend by CEO Larry Ellison.
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Dell announces EqualLogic 'storage blades' and converged data centre strategy
Dell has unveiled four different blade storage arrays with the ability to store up to 14TB of data per array, up to 28TB per group inside a blade chassis, and up to 56TB with two groups inside one blade chassis.
