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Discover Actionable Insights from Unstructured Data

We’ve all heard about the quantity of unstructured data – over 80% of business-relevant information exists in an unstructured format (primarily text). Many companies are looking for tools to derive actionable insight Read more…

Unstructured Data Analytics Shouldn’t Be Such a Mess

The problem with searching for a needle in a haystack is that the process, by nature, is inefficient. So why has it become a popular analogy for analytics efforts within the enterprise? Because today’s analytics attemp Read more…

NASCAR Analytics Races To ‘Younger Crowd’

NASCAR is seeking to engage with racing enthusiasts via a new analytics platform that seeks to leverage, among other things, unstructured text data collected directly from NASCAR fans. The motor racing organization be Read more…

Beware the Dangers of Dark Data

The amount of data we're generating is doubling roughly every 18 months, which is eerily similar to Moore's Law scale for the growth of processing power. But much of that new data will remain invisible to those who would Read more…

Apache Drill Poised to Crack Tough Data Challenges

It's been three years in the making, and today the Apache Drill project announced that version 1 of the eponymous tool is ready for business. MapR Technologies, which develops Hadoop and NoSQL database software, wasted n Read more…

NoSQL Battle Heats Up As MarkLogic Hauls In $102M

Just a year ago, MarkLogic CEO Gary Bloom couldn't get any respect in the Wild West shootout that is the NoSQL database market. But today, with $102 million in new financing and a valuation north of $1 billion for MarkLo Read more…

Financial Data Provider Adopts FirstRain Analytics

An unstructured data analytics specialist and a financial information provider are expanding their partnership to leverage social media and other web content to create advanced financial data visualizations for business Read more…

Pulling Insights from Unstructured Data – Nine Key Steps

Data, data everywhere, but not a drop to use. Companies are increasingly confronted with floods of data, including “unstructured data” which is information from within email messages, social posts, phone calls, and o Read more…

Software-Defined Storage Takes Off As Big Data Gets Bigger

The ongoing explosion of data is forcing users to adapt their storage methodologies beyond traditional file- and block-level storage. Object stores and software-defined storage mechanisms, in particular, are quickly gain Read more…

NCSA Project Aims to Create a DNS-Like Service for Data

Researchers at the University of Illinois and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) are working to create a “DNS Server for data” that would automatically add structure to unstructured data as users come across it in the wild. The researchers recently received a $10.5-million National Science Foundation grant to develop the software as part of its “Brown Dog” project. Read more…

How Object Storage and Information Dispersal Address Big Data Challenges

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As unstructured data volumes continue to grow, more and more companies will reach the petabyte milestone and confront the challenges associated with managing very large storage environments. Storage technologies that can deliver massive scalability while ensuring reliability and availability are already emerging to meet their needs. Object storage and information dispersal are being adopted by leading-edge organizations for whom the delivery and analysis of large amounts of unstructured data is mission-critical. Read more…

Big Unstructured Data and the Case for Optimized Object Storage

The world of data storage is marked by ongoing innovation, but major paradigm shifts in technology are much less frequent. A really major transition in storage paradigm hasn’t occurred since the introduction of network storage including Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) and technology, to augment Direct Attached Storage (DAS) technology in the 1990’s. Read more…

Red Hat Throws Cap into Big Data Storage Arena

This week Red Hat entered the enterprise big data storage market with a new software storage appliance. The offering, which leverages both the technology from the acquisition of Gluster as well as its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, targets big unstructured data. Read more…

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