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Google digs in heels over EU antitrust ultimatum

...problem, and we will understand that," Schmidt told an audience at the Big Tent event. "We don't know what that is." The Commission probe... Read more

23 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

1,000-node big data workbench to crunch analytics' toughest problems

...to analyse petabyte-scale datasets and help develop the next generation of big data analytics platforms.The Greenplum Analytics Workbench, which was revealed at EMC... Read more

23 May, 2012 by Nick Heath
How <endeca_term>big</endeca_term> data in the cloud can drive IT ops

How big data in the cloud can drive IT ops

...When organisations use the cloud to exploit big data, they're usually thinking about the benefits for business owners. They... Read more

12 May, 2012 by Lori MacVittie

Photos: Wine festival raises a glass to NFC

A look at how The Big Wine Festival is going cashless... Oenophiles rejoice: next year, England is getting... Read more

24 September, 2011 by Jo Best

US follows tech leaders into big data

...earmarked $200m to develop analytics for government data, hoping to encourage advanced 'big data' techniques. The 'Big Data Research and Development Initiative' (PDF) was announced... Read more

30 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

Jaspersoft 4.5 release extends big data capabilities

...and-drop report designer for non-technical users, and better support for big data sources. The new version, announced on Wednesday, also includes 'self-service... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Ben Woods

In-memory analytics vs big data: Can SAP's Hana make sense of the information overload

...for speed? However, not every company will need the speed boost or big data handling capabilities that Hana brings to analytics. Hana should be viewed... Read more

24 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

Oracle gets on the big data bandwagon

...Oracle has introduced its Big Data Appliance, an integrated hardware and software system designed to help businesses... Read more

4 October, 2011 by Jack Clark
Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

...the whole chip, so you don't have to light up a big area of the cache when you want to access it, as it... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

RSA: Use big data to find cyber-threats

...Companies must harness 'big data' analysis capabilities to combat growing threats to network security, according to... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?

Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?

...a failure to understand how data is serialised to and from applications. Big data is not well suited to transfer via the most standardised of... Read more

22 January, 2012 by Lori MacVittie

Hadoop is ready for the enterprise, says Apache

...scalable, distributed computing software framework. Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process big data for cloud computing and other applications. It has been an Apache... Read more

5 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Local councils report only 55 of 1,035 data losses

...reported to the UK data protection watchdog, according to a new report. Big Brother Watch has found inconsistencies in the reporting of serious data breaches... Read more

23 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

ARM brews Big.Little tech for less greedy smartphones

...ARM has introduced Big.Little technology, which twins a low-powered chip with a high-powered... Read more

20 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Thinking big data: Oracle embraces Hadoop and NoSQL to target unstructured data

...year's Oracle OpenWorld" height="452px" width="300px" /> Andy Mendelsohn discussed the Big Data Appliance at OpenWorld, saying "you have to sift through to find... Read more

4 October, 2011 by Jo Best

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