Data Management

10 Trends Driving Big Data in Financial Services

When it comes to Big Data, the financial services sector has been somewhat slow on the uptake. Neil Palmer, partner of SunGard Consulting Services' Advanced Technology Business, explains it as a cautious approach to innovation driven by the heav

10 Trends Driving Big Data in Financial Services

When it comes to Big Data, the financial services sector has been somewhat slow on the uptake. Neil Palmer, partner of SunGard Consulting Services' Advanced Technology Business, explains it as a cautious approach to innovation driven by the heav

The Big Data Challenge: How to Develop a Winning Strategy

Developing a winning Big Data strategy is challenging because it is as much about getting ahead of the trend and acquiring talent as it is about investing in new technology. To be successful you will need Data Scientists on your team, professionals w

Floating Customer Master Data into the Clouds

The problem of a customer master database that holds the core of your company's customer data is as old as distributed software. The cloud adds some new twists to this issue and offers a new strategy for solving it.

Does VMware Move Signal That Big Data Is Ready for Prime Time?

Deploying, configuring and maintaining Hadoop clusters is challenging and time-intensive, but VMware aims to change that with a new open source project that virtualizes the Hadoop cluster and makes it ready for the cloud.

Big Data Problem Plagues Government Agencies

Government agencies are collecting vast amounts of data, but they're struggling just to store it, let alone analyze it to improve efficiency, accuracy and forecasts.

MySQL Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Bypass Password Verification

Exploit code is available for a MySQL authentication bypass vulnerability

15 open source big data technologies to watch

Big data is making a big splash these days and open source technology is at the core of most of these big data initiatives. Here are 15 key open source big data technologies to keep an eye on.

DreamWorks, HP Ring in Era of ‘Super Customer’

Most IT vendors use their annual conferences to tell attendees what customers are doing. This year HP brought DreamWorks, complete with Alex the Lion, on stage at Discover 2012 to discuss how HP's helping it realize the goal of real-time animati

Google Drive and Skydrive and Dropbox, Oh My!