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As Big Data Goes Mainstream, Emphasis Shifts to ROI

Investment in big data technologies is slowing, a new forecast concludes, likely signaling a shift away from hype to a mainstream technology in search of new use cases such as shoring up data security in the face of cont Read more…

Big Data Applications Not Meeting Expectations

An Actuate study showed that 49% of companies overall are not planning on even evaluating big data, including 40% of companies that take in revenues of over a billion dollars. Meanwhile, only 19% of companies have implemented big data, including 26% of billion-plus revenue streams. Read more…

Beyond Big Data: Addressing the Challenge of Big Applications

The challenge of handling big data has spawned a wealth of new data stores and file systems, addressing the challenges of scale and distribution, wide-area and availability, consistency and latency trade-offs. If the data isn't accessed too frequently, and if the infrastructure doesn't have to grow, these technologies can mean "job done". Read more…

GPUs Push Envelope on BI Performance

During GTC Asia in Beijing this year, Ren Wu from HP Labs presented (and not for the first time) research that demonstrates significant speedups on business intelligence applications using GPU computing. In addition to providing more details about the effort in Asia this year, Wu described common bottlenecks in BI applications that might find solutions in GPUs. Read more…

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