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Hortonworks Preps for Coming IoT Device Storm

The masses may not be getting flying cars or personal robots anytime soon, but thanks to connected devices, the future of technology is definitely bright. From smart refrigerators and wireless BBQ sensors to connected tu Read more…

Teradata Puts Aster in Hadoop for IoT Analytics

The Internet of Things (IoT) is simultaneously a colossal data management challenge and the analytic opportunity of a lifetime. Teradata (NYSE: TDC) addressed both of those today with two product announcements, including Read more…

Trucking Along with Big Data and the IoT

Millions of trucks hit American roads every day, delivering essential goods like food, medicine, and the new iPhone 6s. But trucks also break down, which delays deliveries and hurts the profits of truck operators. Now ma Read more…

The Data of Things: How Edge Analytics and IoT Go Hand In Hand

In the next five years, 15 to 40 billion additional connected devices are expected to hit the market. By some estimates, it will be a 285 percent increase from the number of connected devices currently available. With a Read more…

Tackling the MDM Challenge of Big Streaming Data

Objectivity, an established Silicon Valley firm with experience in high-performance distributed object-oriented databases, today debuted a new Hadoop-based product that addresses one of the looming challenges in the Inte Read more…

Cast Your Models Into Data Streams and Take Advantage of the IoT

Using data in real-time used to be a challenge. Lengthy extraction, transformation and loading processes make analyzing data an activity more akin to glancing in a rearview window than reading road signs as you pass. And Read more…

Riak Taps Mesos for ‘Push Button’ NoSQL Scalability

At the MesosCon conference this week, Basho Technologies and Cisco are demonstrating the Riak key-value store database running atop Apache Mesos, the next-gen cluster manager developed by UC Berkeley's AMPLab. As Basho C Read more…

Bit Stew, Energy Advisor Partner on Industrial IoT

Consulting firm Blackstone Technology Group, which focuses heavily on the energy sector, is partnering with "software-defined operations" specialist Bit Stew Systems in a bid to extend big data capabilities into global e Read more…

Can Workforce Analytics Help Us Find Work-Life Balance?

Organizations are the sum of their constituent parts. If employees aren't achieving at the highest level, then chances are good the organization is underperforming as well. Organizations are awash in all types of data, b Read more…

From Data Lakes to State Analytics

Earlier this year, I published my thoughts around a data lake use case that I called “The Union of the State.” Since this post published, the topic of data lakes and data analytics has become more widely debated than Read more…

Future of Connected Cities on Display in L.A.

Cities are sitting on mounds of data generated by everything from parking meters to traffic lights to water meters, but they're having difficulty harnessing that data effectively. As the big data and Internet of Things ( Read more…

Software AG Platform Targets Predictive Analytics

Software AG is adding high-end predictive analytics tools to its Digital Business Platform as it looks to extend the reach of the flagship analytics platform across retail, manufacturing, financial services and other ind Read more…

Unlocking the Hidden Benefits of Industrial Data

We've heard extensively about how companies are analyzing data born on the consumer Web to improve customer service, boost probability, and otherwise remake the business-to-consumer relationship. But industrial data is a Read more…

Peering Into Computing’s Exascale Future with the IEEE

Computer scientists worried about the end of computing as we know it have been banging heads for several years looking for ways to return to the historical exponential scaling of computer performance. What is needed, say Read more…

IoT Analytics: A Game Changer for Customer Support

Customer service costs continue to increase, driven by the greater complexity of today’s products, growing compensation costs for personnel, and higher expectations of quality service among customers. Companies may be Read more…

Survey: Health Trackers Emerge As IoT App

On the weighty matter of how best to use connected devices that will serve as the data-generating backbone of The Internet of Things (IoT), poll results released at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas indi Read more…

Building a Better (Google) Earth

About 10 years ago, the folks at Google finished indexing the Internet and turned their attention to indexing planet Earth. The resulting product, Google Earth, amazed nearly everybody who used it. But for individuals wi Read more…

MapR Reports Accelerated OpenTSDB Performance

Eyeing new Internet of Things (IoT) applications, MapR Technologies said its open-source distribution of Apache Hadoop "ingested" more than 100 million data points per second. The performance benchmark for the MapR di Read more…

Most Hyped Tech: Big Data Out, IoT In

The Internet of Things (IoT) has displaced big data as the most hyped emerging technology according to the latest release of Gartner's Hype Cycle. Big data's drop into the "Trough of Disillusionment" and the IoT's rise t Read more…

Big Data is the New Engine of the Internet

Mobile devices and expanding networks of sensors are generating huge amounts of data that are increasingly searchable and can be shared to discern patterns and, potentially, to solve problems, according to an annual repo Read more…

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