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Marketers Buzzing over Big Data
Lack of digital insight and internal data-sharing challenge companies March 20, 2012 Marketers are abuzz over “Big Data” for its promise to deliver a more complete understanding of each customer, who can then be targeted with advertising tailored exactly to the individual. But according to February 2012 research from Columbia Business School’s Center on Global […]
NIG Japan Big Data Genomics
NIG Japan Big Data Genomics by Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum As a leading international genetics research laboratory and inter-university research institution in Japan, the National Institute of Genetics builds an international DNA database, develops and provides various search and analysis services, and provides supercomputing resources to researchers throughout Japan and the world. The […]
P&G Investing in Big Data Analytics
P&G Investing in Big Data Analytics, Dan Gatti Big Data I/O Forum Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini says he plans to increase fourfold the number of company staff with expertise in business analytics. Passerini is building that expertise at a time when P&G is cutting costs in other areas, including eliminating 1,600 nonmanufacturing jobs. […]
NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because specific non-functional properties are often the main justification for NoSQL usage and fundamental results on distributed systems like CAP theorem are well applicable to the NoSQL systems. At the same […]
Addressing the Challenges of Big Applications
By Alex Heneveld The challenge of handling big data has spawned a wealth of new data stores and file systems, addressing the challenges of scale and distribution, wide-area and availability, consistency and latency trade-offs. If the data isn’t accessed too frequently, and if the infrastructure doesn’t have to grow, these technologies can mean “job done”. […]
Flash Gordon Alive and Well in San Diego
Flash Gordon Alive and Well in San Diego, Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Gordon cluster is a BIG DATA I/O project that will challenge Dr Ming’s ability to enter the atmosphere at warp speed. Composed of over 1,000 compute nodes based on the Intel Xeon processor E5 family. The […]
Solid State Storage up 105%
According to new data from research firm IDC, worldwide solid-state storage industry revenue hit $5 billion in 2011, up 105% from the $2.4 billion mark in 2010. IDC expects the market will expand further in 2012 and beyond. “2011 was a record year for the worldwide SSD market, with revenue more than doubling year over […]
NYSE Processing Petabyte Databases
NYSE Processing Petabyte Databases, Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum Daily data volumes for NYSE Euronext are increasing up to 200 percent yearly, a level of growth that requires a fine-grained analytics system to measure and reduce latency across all transactions. Operating the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext and NYSE Arca, NYSE Euronext is the […]
Superbowl of Data Mining
Big Data has been challenging researchers around the world to find computationally-based research methods to search, analyze and mine structured and unstructured. January 3, 2012. Today, fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States were named the winners of the second Digging Into Data Challenge, a competition to promote innovative […]
Five Big Data Predictions for 2012
Edd Dumbill looks at the hot topics in data for the coming year. by Edd Dumbill | @edd | +Edd Dumbill | Comments: 7 | 14 December 2011 More powerful and expressive tools for analysis This year has seen consolidation and engineering around improving the basic storage and data processing engines of NoSQL and Hadoop. That will doubtless continue, […]
