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by Angela Guess A new article out of IBM reports that “IBM announced that Security First Insurance, a leading homeowners insurance firm based in Florida, is using smarter content software from IBM and partner Integritie to collect and analyze big data including social media and email to quickly begin the claims resolution process for customers...
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by Angela Guess According to a new article out of the company, “Talend, a global open source software leader, announced the availability of version 5.3 of its next-generation integration platform, the only unified environment that scales the integration of data, application and business processes of any complexity. With version 5.3, Talend redefines the skillsets and...
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by Angela Guess John Rath of Data Center Knowledge reports, “MapR Technologies has announced an update of its Big Data platform that provides performance improvements for NoSQL and Hadoop applications. With the MapR M7 Edition, MapR says it has removed the trade-offs organizations face when looking to deploy a NoSQL solution. M7 delivers over one million operations per...
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by Angela Guess Neil Biehn of Wired recently opined that “viability” and “value” should be added to the existing “Vs” of Big Data (volume, variety, and velocity). He writes, “The era of Big Data is not ‘coming soon.’ It’s here today and it has brought both painful changes and unprecedented opportunity to businesses in...
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by Angela Guess Andrew Lampitt of InfoWorld reports, “Netflix is the big Kahuna of a Web media businesses, with 33 million subscribers in more than 40 countries. As Netflix’s “watch now” streaming service has grown, the company has had to rethink its data and storage strategies to cope with ballooning workloads managed in the...
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by Angela Guess Mark Bonchek of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, “You may not know this, but Big Data has a little brother. And together, Big and Little Data are far more powerful than Big Data alone. Big Data is what organizations know about people — be they customers, citizens, employees, or voters....
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by Angela Guess Haowen Chan and Robin Morris of GigaOM recently wrote, “Expectations surrounding the future of big data range from the just huge to absolutely enormous – a reflection perhaps of both its real inherent potential and all the massive hype. Certainly though there is no dispute that companies can reap big benefits from...
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by Angela Guess Adam Belz of Phys.org reports, “Kossi Gavi drives to class on Sunday afternoons to learn retail software, and the reason is simple. People who wield computers to analyze large amounts of digital information are in high demand, and Gavi is learning a program that chain stores worldwide use to run their...
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by Angela Guess Mare Lucas of Wired recently wrote, “Close behind ‘Big Data’ as one of the most utilized enterprise technology terms today is ‘Data Scientist.’ Many postulate that the explosion in Big Data will usher in an insatiable demand for data scientists able to slice and dice data to guide more informed decision...
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by Angela Guess Kristian J. Hammond of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, “Evidence-based decision-making (aka Big Data) is not just the latest fad, it’s the future of how we are going to guide and grow business. But let’s be very clear: There is a huge distinction to be made between ‘evidence’ and ‘data.’...
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