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Now Trending: AI Washing

First there was "green washing," where companies exaggerated the environmental benefits of their products in order to boost sales. Now technology experts are warning us about "AI washing," an equally questionable tactic Read more…

No Sign of Big Data Spending Slowdown, Vendors Say

Gartner turned some heads yesterday with a new study that found fewer companies had plans to invest in big data projects over the next two years. But executives with Cloudera, Teradata, Databricks, and others say they're Read more…

How Do You Value Information?

If you're like most people, you recognize that information has value. The value isn't always clear, but it's clearly there. But according to some professional organizations, digital information literally has no value. As Read more…

‘Smart Machines’ Top the Hype Cycle, Gartner Says

Every summer, technologists turn to Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, which has become a barometer of sorts for gauging the state of various hardware and software innovations that are expected to impact bus Read more…

Gartner: Role of Analytics in Security is Growing

As corporate and, more recently, university IT networks are bombarded with malicious code and other forms of cyber attacks, network managers are being forced to rely more heavily on a range of emerging security technolog Read more…

Data Warehouse Market Ripe for Disruption, Gartner Says

While mega-vendors with names like IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) continue to lead the data warehousing space, shifts in the market are creating opportunities for smaller vendors to innovate in areas like cloud Read more…

Tumultuous Times for BI and Analytic Tool Vendors

My, what a week it was for business intelligence (BI) and analytic tools. First, industry darling Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) lost half its market capitalization following earnings that disappointed Wall Street, which Read more…

Tech ‘Democratization’ Seen Fueling Analytics Boom

The "democratization" of analytics illustrated by the transition to self-service business intelligence and foolproof BI platforms promises to boost to global analytics market to new heights in 2016 and beyond, market res Read more…

Gartner Sees Analytics Boom as More Data is Shared

Advanced analytics techniques like data and text mining, machine learning and visualization are poised to shake up entire industries as more enterprises leverage proprietary algorithms along with emerging platforms to se Read more…

Meet the Avant-Garde of New Relational Databases

In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the new "avant-garde" of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts of scalability and elastici Read more…

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…

One Deceptively Simple Secret for Data Lake Success

Gartner turned heads last year when it declared that the majority of data lake projects would end in failure. As a self-avowed "old dog" of data warehousing, EMC's Bill Schmarzo vehemently agrees with that assessment, bu Read more…

Hadoop Opportunity ‘Never Been Bigger’ Says Hortonworks CEO

Don't be fooled by the Hadoop naysayers, Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden told an audience at the Hadoop Summit yesterday. "The opportunity has never been bigger," he said. "We may never have an opportunity this big again in Read more…

Gartner: Hadoop Adoption ‘Fairly Anemic’

Enterprise adoption of Hadoop remains "tentative," according to a new survey, as lingering challenges posed by doubts about the business value of the software framework and database skills gap hinder uptake. Market re Read more…

Survey: Mega-Vendors Still Dominate Database Management Market

Industry analyst Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" survey of the operational database management systems market found a widening gap between market leaders and niche players, identifying only one "challenger," MongoDB, and a ha Read more…

Gartner: Internet of Things Plus Big Data Transforming the World

Big data and the Internet of Things are taking center stage this week at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2013 in Orlando, Florida, where Gartner is saying that the IT industry is becoming fully immersed in the digital industrial economy. Read more…

Gartner’s Adrian Raps on Big Data’s Present and Future

In a keynote session to kick off Hadoop Summit in this week, Gartner research VP, Merv Adrian, gave a level-setting presentation on Gartner’s view of the Big Data market space, discussing the preliminary results from a recent market survey, and discussing challenges as well as impending innovations of Hadoop. Read more…

Pivotal Launches With $105m Investment From GE

Startup company, Pivotal, announced today that they will be receiving a strategic investment from GE along the lines of $105 million dollars, representing a 10% equity stake in the company that was spun out of EMC to challenge the existing cloud software establishment. Read more…

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