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Article | 24/01/2013 Gartner: Hadoop will be in two-thirds of advanced analytics products by 2015
The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market...
Article | 23/01/2013 Gartner, Ovum offer mixed views on state of Big Data hype
The Big Data buzzword and industry trend had a pretty good year perception-wise in 2012, but the hype may soon fade into a period of disillusionment a...
Article | 22/01/2013 VoltDB expands into Web operations
Responding to a growing user base of online service providers, VoltDB has outfitted its namesake in-memory database management system with additional ...
Article | 22/01/2013 Hortonworks releases a Hadoop sandbox
Those who want to try the much-hyped Hadoop but haven't got a cluster or two to spare can now test the data processing platform on their desktops, tha...
Article | 10/01/2013 SAP ports its Business Suite software to the HANA in-memory database
SAP's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is now able to run on top of the vendor's HANA in-memory database, in a move...
Article | 19/12/2012 IBM plans to buy e-discovery firm StoredIQ
In a move to expand its portfolio of information governance software, IBM is acquiring e-discovery software vendor StoredIQ.
Article | 13/12/2012 Oracle buys DataRaker for 'big data' analysis
Oracle is planning to buy DataRaker in a move that will give it a cloud-based platform for analyzing data from smart meters used by energy utilities. ...
Article | 28/11/2012 Mathematica 9 offers a bigger bucket of formulas
Hoping to ease the mathematical labors of researchers across all scientific disciplines, Wolfram Research has added more capabilities to its flagship ...
Article | 21/11/2012 Supercomputers face growing resilience problems
As supercomputers grow more powerful, they'll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few rese...
Article | 16/11/2012 World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500
The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloa...
Article | 13/11/2012 Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine
With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, ...
Article | 8/11/2012 Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle
Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert.
Article | 7/11/2012 Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server
In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database management...
Article | 26/10/2012 VMware expands Redis programming options
Redis, an open source in-memory data store maintained by VMware, has been upgraded to be more stabile and make more judicious use of memory, two trait...
Article | 25/10/2012 Python: big data's secret power tool
When it comes to analyzing big data, software packages such as Hadoop or the R statistical language come readily to mind. But at least one company, Ap...