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How Smart Lives Will Flow from Insight Streams

In the future, we'll be surrounded with smart devices that anticipate our wants and needs by capturing and interpreting various streams of data in real time. This vision of so-called "insight streams" flowing across the Read more…

Defining Edge Analytics from a Data Decentralization Perspective

Revolutions in processing power and analytical modelling, distributed through massively democratized technology, have opened up countless new possibilities. But these revolutions in technology design have not been matche Read more…

Finding Hidden Value in IoT Analytics

Sensors on the Internet of Things (IoT) are already generating a ton of data, but turning that data into business value isn't always easy. In particular, businesses must be creative in how they mine their IoT data, which Read more…

IoT May Fail Without the Design of Things

Nearly 20 years ago, I recall streaming data off of oil and gas wells in order to measure capacity, reserves, and shrink. For all intents and purposes, data was used used to manually repair a well by humans. What we call Read more…

Amazon Echo, IoT Bulb Enlisted for Data Engagement

Presumably under the category of "bright ideas," a business intelligence specialist is leveraging artificial intelligence and what it calls an "IoT light bulb" as a way to increase analytics engagement and adoption throu Read more…

Making ERP Better with Big Data

At first glance, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and big data analytics don’t appear to have much in common. But it turns out that big old ERP systems have a thing or two to learn from their newer, nimbler Read more…

The NoSQL Tech Behind Vivint’s Smart Home

Here at MongoDB World in New York City, several providers of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are sharing stories of how they use the NoSQL database. One of the most interesting IoT use cases involves Vivint, which is Read more…

IoT Seen Driving AI Adoption

While hardware vendors view it as another vehicle for selling more chips and servers that would allow enterprises to move processing power closer to data, the torrent of sensor and other information the Internet of Thing Read more…

New IBM Data Analytics Software Targets Workload Management, Spark Adoption

IBM announced additions today to the infrastructure layer of its high performance data analytics software portfolio, including “cognitive features,” such as scheduling and resource management, and capabilities aimed Read more…

Healthcare IT, Big Data Investments Surge in Q1

Venture capitalists poured more than $1 billion into the healthcare IT sector during the first quarter of 2016 as investors look to target data analytics and telemedicine for growth. The first three months also saw se Read more…

Spark Leads Big Data Boom, Researcher Says

The global big data market is poised to explode over the next decade, according to a new forecast, topping an estimated $92 billion by 2026 as new streaming analytics technologies emerge. Market researcher Wikibon sai Read more…

Cisco Eyes Better Analytics Through ‘DNA’

As the 800-pound gorilla in networking, Cisco already plays a major role in moving data around the globe. But with today's launch of its new Digital Network Architecture (DNA) strategy, the company has big plans to make Read more…

Security Concerns Grow As Big Data Moves to Cloud

Despite exponential increases in data storage in the cloud along with databases and the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), IT security executives remain worried about security breaches as well as vulnerabilities introduc Read more…

Connected Assets, Big Data and Better Decision-Making

New power does not come from data itself, but from the evolution of connectivity. First we connected computers, then we connected 2.3 billion people annually and then we connected sensors and machines. There is no doubt Read more…

Big Data Spreading Everywhere Like Air, Deloitte Says

For some, the downward trend of the term "big data" on Web word counters and disappearance off hype curves is an indication that the phenomenon has past, that big data is now neither a problem to be solved nor an opportu Read more…

What Does 2016 Mean for Data Science?

I don’t imagine many people outside the tech bubble realize how much their lives were impacted by data science in 2015. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recommendations, marketing campaigns, IoT tech, Uber, Siri, price comparison Read more…

Is 2016 the Beginning of the End for Big Data?

Part of my job as managing editor of Datanami is to be a hype buster. Over the past five years, the amount of hoopla and hysteria over big data has reached epic proportions at times. That's why some in the industry are c Read more…

Microsoft Joins SnapLogic Investors

SnapLogic Inc., the purveyor of a platform designed to integrate data and applications, said it has completed a Series E funding round that includes Microsoft. Along with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), SnapLogic said Thurs Read more…

Nvidia Sets Deep Learning Loose with Embeddable GPU

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) this week unveiled the Jetson TX1, a credit card-sized device that packs a computational wallop for tasks such as machine learning, computer vision, and data analytics. The company envisions custome Read more…

MapR’s Top Execs Sound Off on Hadoop, IoT, and Big Data Use Cases

When it comes to putting big data into action, there are few companies doing what MapR Technologies is doing. From implementing massive Hadoop clusters on Wall Street to preparing for the next wave of distributed computi Read more…

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