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Who Legally Owns Your Big Data?

Commingling internal and external data can produce problems if your contract isnu2019t clear about who owns what -- and for how long.

27 May 2014 2 mins

Big Data Intellectual Property Legal

Does the CFO Need to Become a Technologist?

Technology like big data analytics is disrupting roles throughout the enterprise, including the CFO role. Today's CFOs need to understand how technology can help them do their jobs.

23 May 2014 4 mins

Analytics Big Data IT Leadership

How IBM Plans to Get With the Times

This week's IBM Edge2014 infrastructure event hinted at how the company plans to use experience to its advantage. Far from burning out or fading away like an aging rock star, IBM intends to join today's young rockers on stage -- and steal t

23 May 2014 3 mins

Big Data Developer Financial Services Industry

How to Do Big Data in Healthcare

Many healthcare organizations like to talk about data analytics. However, here are eight pieces of expert advice to help you actually do it.

22 May 2014 6 mins

Big Data Data Warehousing Healthcare Industry

Traversing the Labyrinth of Social Marketing Metrics

Businesses still struggle to hone in on the most appropriate social metrics. Far too many firms emphasize vanity metrics when there remains little agreement over the true value of a follower, friend, retweet, reblog, pin or like.

21 May 2014 5 mins

Analytics Marketing Social Networking Apps

Hortonworks Buys Big Data Security Specialist, Will Donate IP to Apache

In an effort to provide a single-pane-of-glass view of data security, authorization, auditing and overall governance for Hadoop, Hortonworks has acquired big data security specialist XA Secure. The vendor says it plans to donate XA Secure's inte

15 May 2014 3 mins

Big Data Intellectual Property Legal

Cascading Allows Apps to Execute on All Big Data Fabrics

Concurrent says Cascading 3.0 will support local in-memory, Apache MapReduce and Apache Tez out of the gate with support for Apache Spark and Apache Storm soon to follow.

13 May 2014 4 mins

Big Data Developer Open Source

New Versions of Splunk Enterprise and Hunk Extend Data Insight

The operational intelligence specialist announces new versions of its Splunk Enterprise and Hunk platforms for collecting, indexing and correlating machine data.

6 May 2014 5 mins

Big Data