Analytics

Cloud Platform Simplifies Spark Clusters, Big Data Deployments

As part of his keynote at Spark Summit 2014, Databricks CEO Ion Stoica announced Databricks Cloud, a turnkey platform for in-memory cluster computing that promises huge performance improvements over Hadoop MapReduce for processing big data.

NICTA to develop algorithms for optimising joint gas and electricity networks

Native Data Analysis Comes to MongoDB

With the latest release of its business analytics and data integration platform, Pentaho claims to make it easier for organizations to apply analytics to their big data.

NFL’s CIO Tackles Big Data, Player Safety and In-Game Technology

The National Football League's CIO, a position that didn't exist three years ago, explains how the NFL is tackling big data challenges, overhauling stats and bringing new technology on the field and behind the scenes.

CIOs Consider Putting a Price Tag on Data

Figure out the dollar value of your information assets. Then youu2019ll know what the 'I' in CIO is really worth -- and how much to spend protecting it.

Microsoft Aims to Take Predictive Analytics Mainstream

Microsoft moves to make machine learning available for organizations of all sizes with a cloud-based machine learning service that uses visual workflows and templates.

10 Microsoft Power BI for Office 365 Success Stories

Organizations around the world are unlocking business intelligence with the cloud-based Microsoft Power BI for Office 365 service. Here are 10 examples of its success in the real-world.

Jaspersoft Aims to Simplify Embedding Analytics and Visualizations

TIBCO Jaspersoft is offering up a new JavaScript framework to make it simple to embed full business intelligence capabilities into applications.

3 Ways Women Are Driving Change in Tech

It can be hard for women at the top of the corporate ladder to really drive change. (It's a challenge for men, too.) Moderating a panel at the recent Women in Technology Summit, though, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle discovered that women outside

Why Health Data Is a Big Data Challenge

There's no shortage of health data, and it's growing at a rapid clip, but experts in the field cite challenges around making that information useful, readable and relevant to the physicians and patients who need it most.