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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

15 Jun 2012 7 mins

Business Intelligence Careers Data Management

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.

14 Jun 2012 3 mins

Business Intelligence Server Virtualization System Management

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.

12 Jun 2012 5 mins

Business Intelligence Government Government IT

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.

9 Jun 2012 7 mins

Big Data Open Source

Boeing Adopts Sci-Fi Data Manipulation Model

Boeing's defense business wanted to interact with battle simulations using the same sort of gestures Tom Cruise used in the movie "Minority Report." Now sci-fi has come to life.

9 Jun 2012 3 mins

Business Intelligence

Aetna Dumps Its Siloed Enterprise Architecture for SOA

Aetna overcomes business hurdles to revamp its enterprise architecture

9 Jun 2012 3 mins

Business Intelligence Markets

How ComScore Is Using Hadoop to Tame Its Big Data Flow

Market researcher ComScore tames a torrent of data with open-source analytics

8 Jun 2012 3 mins

Data Center Data Warehousing

Ease Big Data Hiring Pain With Cascading

Finding developers with the skills to create MapReduce jobs in Apache Hadoop is challenging, but you can ease that hiring pain with Cascading, an open source Java application framework for building enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop.

7 Jun 2012 5 mins

Business Intelligence Developer Java

5 Best Ecommerce Software Platforms for Small Business

Are you looking to expand your small business? For less than $100 per month, you can add ecommerce to your business website and reach new customers.

6 Jun 2012 7 mins

E-commerce Software Retail Industry Small and Medium Business

Big Brother’s Mining Our Data, Do We Care?

CIO magazine Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson considers our June 1 cover story on Equifax's new business strategy, which involves massive amounts of consumer and business data. Gen Y is at the edge of a brand new world devoid of privacy. Do they

1 Jun 2012 3 mins

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