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Category: Big Data

  • Apache Spark: 3 Promising Use-Cases

    Apache Spark: 3 Promising Use-Cases

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    Spark is the shiny new thing in big data, but how will it stand out? Here’s a look at “fog computing,” cloud computing, and streaming data-analysis scenarios. by James Kobielus To survive the competitive struggles, every fresh technological innovation must find clear use-cases in the marketplace. There must be some specific itch that the new…

  • Cassandra lowers the barriers to big data

    Cassandra lowers the barriers to big data

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    An InfoWorld Test Center overview of the nuts and bolts of Cassandra: A free, open source NoSQL datastore that supports rapid and massive growth By Rick Grehan Apache Cassandra is a free, open source NoSQL database designed to manage very large data sets (think petabytes) across large clusters of commodity servers. Among many distinguishing features,…

  • Google taps big data for universal translator

    Google taps big data for universal translator

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    Statistical analysis beats algorithms for language translation, Google says, but which massive volumes of linguistic data will it use? By Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld Google Translate is currently best known for being a quick and dirty way to render Web pages or short text snippets in another language. But according to Der Spiegel, the next…

  • Big Data: The Mega-Trend That Will Impact All Our Lives

    Big Data: The Mega-Trend That Will Impact All Our Lives

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    There are some things that are so big that they have implications for everyone’s life, whether we want it or not. And Big Data is one of those mega trends that will impact everyone in one way or another. The name (which by the way I don’t like) might sound a bit techie or boring…

  • SAP Launches Free Online Training for HANA, Other New Technologies

    SAP Launches Free Online Training for HANA, Other New Technologies

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    IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) — SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program available at no charge. Dubbed openSAP, the program’s first course will provide an introduction to developing software on top of HANA, and is scheduled to…

  • Fraud Prevention in a Big Data Environment

    Fraud Prevention in a Big Data Environment

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    SAP announced Tuesday a new analytic application to help enterprises detect, investigate, analyze and prevent fraud in Big Data environments. March 19, 2013 by Derek Klobucher Christchurch, New Zealand is rebuilding after a devastating earthquake two years ago and recovering from the global financial crisis — and it could be losing more than US$1.2 billion…

  • Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

    Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

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    Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it–and he doesn’t feel fine about it. By Bernard Golden, March 26, 2013 CIO — At last week’s SVForum…

  • SAP Speeds Deployment Time for Big Data Analytics

    SAP Speeds Deployment Time for Big Data Analytics

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    SAP’s Big Data Transition Strategy will be studied in MBA programs a few years from now. The company is disrupting its industry with revolutionary solutions without disrupting its customers. Needless to say, that’s a hard thing to do.