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IBM Helps Make Buildings More Efficient, Thanks to Data

Maintaining buildings and other assets can eat up a large chunk of an organization’s operating budget. But by properly instrumenting a building and paying close attention to the data it generates, organizations can those costs, and get better at predicting potential failures too. Read more…

Rebuilding the Data Center One Block At A Time

With the advent of mobile, social business and big data & analytics workloads, there has been a seismic shift in usage patterns and the way they are handled. Though Cloud successfully separates the tight connection between physical hardware and software, it does not completely address how workloads are managed and deployed. The new environment looks very different... Read more…

Watson Moves Into the Call Center

Today, IBM announced that their cognitive computer system and Jeopardy star, Watson, is expanding its reach from healthcare, across the enterprise, where IBM says customer service will be a priority. Read more…

IBM Sends Big Data to the Front Lines

IBM is throwing a “Big Data Event” on April 30, and the effort to promote it is already in full force. The company has taken a special interest in big data over the last couple of years, summarizing their efforts in a video on next week’s event. Read more…

IBM Tackling Hadoop with Machine Data Accelerator

IBM's next challenge is taking on Hadoop and making it more accessible for end users through their Machine Data Accelerator. IBM BigInsights Technical Sales Lead Dirk de Roos discussed how the Accelerator seeks to alleviate bottlenecks in machine log data. Read more…

IRS to Utilize Big Data to Improve Returns

Today, April 15, 2013, is tax day in the United States. Millions of Americans are assuredly scrambling to file their returns today and most will be doing so electronically. Specifically, the IRS expects 80 percent of tax returns, or 250 million, to be filed online. That represents a significant big data problem in identifying the veracity of said filings. Read more…

Big Data on the Range in OK

One of the goals of big data analytics is to streamline and optimize. The state government of Oklahoma realized that and brought in IBM’s analytics chops in an IT consolidation effort that is slated to save the state $15 million over the next five years. Read more…

Sprint Taps Streaming for Predictive Capabilities

Telecommunications company Sprint has over 53 million people using their networks. With the help of IBM, Sprint is hoping to apply analytics to data culled from those millions of users. Read more…

Preventing Brain Injuries with Predictive Analytics

From the National Football League’s various attempts to crack down on concussions and dodge various concussion-related lawsuits to the recent death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from a stroke, the treatment and prevention of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) has caught the public attention of late. Coincidentally, IBM and Excel Medical announced a partnership with the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery recently in an attempt to tackle TBIs with predictive analytics Read more…

ASTRON, IBM to Help Researchers Listen to SKA

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will seek to exponentially surpass current telescopes and thus delve into the formation of stars near the beginning of the known universe. To facilitate SKA’s immense computational needs, ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and IBM have teamed up to form DOME in researching the computing side of the highly ambitious astronomical survey project. Read more…

Rometty: The Third Era and How to Win the Future

The third era of computing technology is at our doorsteps, where machine learning meets big data, says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. She discusses the third era of computing and what organizations need to do now to survive the shift. Read more…

CIA Prophet Pointed to Big Data Future

A report written in 1962 recently released by the CIA reveals that in the early 1960s, forward thinking minds in the intelligence community were considering the implications of the tech trend we now call “big data.” Read more…

Watson: Coming to a Cloud Near You

The cognitive computer known as Watson will soon be available as a service in the cloud. For now, we'll resist calling this "WaaS" and opt instead to point it as another step along the path of creating more robust, big data-ready cloud services. Read more…

The Week in Big Data Research

We span the globe for this week's big data research and development stories. From modeling in Poland and Montreal to analyzing e-literature in Norway and hashing in Japan, this week has a distinct international flair. Also included this week are studies of big data compression out of MIT and private data center access from Microsoft. Read more…

Retail Analytics Gain Steam(punk)

Victorian clothing from the 1800s used to lie solely in museums or in historical depictions on film and television. IBM announced this week that an altered version of the style, called ‘steampunk’ is on the verge of being mainstream and, according to them, they saw it coming three years ago. Read more…

Top 5 Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise

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Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and unstructured. Recently, IT has struggled to deliver timely analysis using data warehousing architectures designed for batch processing. These architectures can no longer meet demand owing to rapidly rising data volumes and new data types that beg for a continuous approach to data processing. Read more…

IBM Puts Pure Spin on Project Sparta

At a presentation in Singapore on Monday, Project Sparta turned into PureData, IBM’s latest offering in their Pure series.PureData consists of three components: The company claims that the emphasis on the big data processing needs for... Read more…

Helping the Government Survive the Data Tsunami

TechAmerica published a report to guide government agencies in developing a big data strategy. The report identified educating data scientists and implementing precise data management solutions for particular use cases as important for government agencies. Read more…

IBM Weaves Brocade into Big Data Fabric

IBM and Brocade have teamed up to provide cost-effective and energy-efficient solutions to handle big data management’s biggest problems. Nagui Halim, an IBM Fellow who focuses on big data problems, spoke of IBM’s and Brocade’s aspirations of the partnership to.... Read more…

IBM Reveals “Keys to the Match” for US Open

While some might say that sports represent a microcosm of life itself with the various wins and losses, IBM prefers to see sports as a metaphor for business. At this year’s US Open, the analytics team is combining the uncertainty of sporting glory with the presumed steady beat of predictive analytics ... Read more…

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