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New IBM Mainframe Targets Massive Data

The word mainframe doesn’t appear in tech news as frequently as it used to, but when it does, you can almost bet that it’s Big Blue behind the message. This week the company rolled out the results of a reported $1 billion R&D investment with the new zEnterprise EC12... 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 Fellow Tracks HPC, Big Data Meld

From massive physics simulations to astrophysics research that recreates the universe’s birth, HPC systems are designed to quickly plow through incredible amounts of data. In reality, the “big data” challenges (among which are data volume, variety and velocity barriers) that are.... Read more…

World’s Top Data-Intensive Systems Unveiled

This year at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, the list of the top data-intensive systems was revealed with heavy tie-ins to placements on the Top500 list of the world's fastest systems, entries from most of the national labs, and plenty of BlueGene action. The list of the top "big data" systems, called the Graph500, measures the performance of.... Read more…

ParAccel Lifts Hood on CARFAX Overhaul

In the wake of their competitors being gobbled up by giants and their announcement today of a new connector to Hadoop, we step back and look at how analytical platforms like ParAccel's are handling large amounts of complex data for companies like CARFAX, which recently put the company in the driver's seat following limitations from their legacy.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

Our top seven this week will look at how CSC is tapping big government data, will dive into the “Data Oasis” for big data and supercomputing, and look at new enhancements for those leveraging the R statistical language. We also have some news from HP and IBM and Oracle as they firm up their positions on big data.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

In this Friday's roundup of some top news items during the week ending May 18 we take a brief look at how IBM Watson is being put to new use, how Caltech sought to address its storage limitations, see how insurance fraud is being targeted, and relay an interesting use case from an unexpected source.... Read more…

SKA Makes Data Work to New Beat

To handle the massive torrent of data the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will produce, the project calls for a supercomputer that can handle anywhere from 2-30 exaflops, not to mention a system that is outfitted with some of the most robust data-intensive management tools available. These numbers are certainly outside the realm of today’s leading-edge technology but..... Read more…

Rutgers to Become Big Data Powerhouse

Today Rutgers University released official word about a new high performance computing center that is dedicated to tackling big data problems in research and science as well as supporting the complex needs of business users in the... Read more…

Looking Backward: The First Hard Drive

When following new discoveries and understanding how vendors tackle production issues, it warrants a look back to technologies that made the breakthroughs of today possible. This week we take a look at the IBM RAMAC and its implications.... Read more…

New Platform Caters to Cancer Research

Personalized medicine is quickly moving from concept to reality with a number of new advancements that harness big data and the ecosystem that have built up around it. Last Thursday, IBM announced that it has launched... Read more…

IBM Big Data VP Surveys Landscape

Following a discussion with IBM's Vice President of Big Data Products, we gained a real-time view into how the company is addressing the influx of startups and open source competitors, what it plans to do further inroads into complex event processing technologies and how IBM will stay ahead of the next generation of big data needs streaming from.... Read more…

Mr. Watson Goes to Wall Street

IBM has already been able to establish a series of compelling use cases for Watson in healthcare, but if the price is right (and it seems like it could be in this case) financial services could be where the fruits of the massive IBM labor.... Read more…

Indian IT Giant Pins Future on Analytics

One of India's top IT products and services companies has emphasized the role of analytics, in addition to the converging mobile and cloud trends, as key to their continued growth. According the company's VP of business for the Middle.... Read more…

The Science of Social Sentiment

A joint collaboration from IBM, the LA Times and the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, produced the Senti-meter a high profile example of the power behind sentiment analysis--and a powerful tool that matches the sensibilities of millions of... Read more…

Is Boston the Next Bastion for Big Data?

A recent report from the Mass Technology Leadership Council cited a number of examples of big data and analytics companies that are thriving in the Bay State and offered a few insights about why Boston and big data might go hand in hand... Read more…

Talend Clarifies Oil and Gas Data Management

Open source integration software company, Talend, is moving swiftly into new markets, including oil and gas. We talked with the company's senior director of product marketing, Ciaran Dynes, about the big data management challenges when it comes to data-heavy industries. Read more…

IBM Solidifies Academic Analytics Investments

This week IBM announced an expansion of their Academic Initiative to include predictive and enterprise analytics programs and certifications at a number of global sites, including India, China, Scotland and Ireland. The effort complements existing business analytics programs at American universities... Read more…

IBM Cranks Turbine Decisions

IBM revealed details about how their big data technology, including system, analytics and file system technologies are working to help a Danish wind energy company make sound turbine decisions. Read more…

Putting Shared Memory to the Test

A new pilot project in Europe seeks to show the value of shared memory systems (this time from an IBM, Numascale and Gridcore partnership) as national goals point to the need to create massive systems for massive data. Read more…

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