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Data Agnosticism Part of Dell’s Quest

According to Dell, data agnosticism is central to getting organizations from data to analysis quicker. We caught up with Joanna Schloss, product marketing manager at Dell, who explained why. Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Five

This week we saw a number of stories unfolding from companies like Dell, which is pushing its data warehousing appliance for mid-market customers; Convey, which gave big data genomics a GPU boost for Iowa State University; more genomics news from Intel; as well as some key announcements from smaller companies seeking to alleviate data-intensive computing burdens for those in financial services and government.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

This week we look to Dell, which is showing off its ARM strength for the needs of Hadoop and web-scale customers, look to Cloudera’s capacity to handle the unending streams of social data, test the transaction speed processing waters and find new developments from the visualization side of the fence.... Read more…

Why Big Data Means Reinventing Invention

In the wake of today's news of massive layoffs at HP and dismal returns on expectations at other mainstream IT giants, including Dell, it seemed fitting to look at the ways the needs of businesses and consumers are shifting from the era of the machine to that of the data-driven... Read more…

Inside Europe’s “Super Data Cluster”

Climate and atmospheric data is the key to solving complex global warming mysteries, understanding weather and global climate trends, and interpreting atmospheric events and their implications. As the number of sources grow, resources like Europe's "super-data-cluster" the.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Ten

On tap for our summary of items this week we have details from the edges of genomics research, to the sad state of data protection, and the scoop on a new program that would make Stan Lee proud. We also address recent info about how to scrub dirty data, in addition to some recent big data IPO activity and new concepts that are reshaping data-intensive enterprise computing. Whew... Read more…

Wrangling Big Data to Fight Pediatric Cancer

As Dr. Anatol Blass writes, a new bottleneck that has emerged in the fight against childhood cancer--at least from a computational standpoint. Researchers are drowning in data and the trick is how to efficiently manage the volume and complexity of that data while making it secure yet accessible to many..... Read more…

Hadoop Events Crowd 2012 Calendar

If this is indeed the "Year of Hadoop" then it stands to reason this should also be the year of Hadoop-flavored events. In true form, Hadoop conferences in 2012 are growing in number, as are user groups, training sessions and workshops to.... Read more…

The Path to Personalized Medicine

Life sciences research and development professionals are among the first to claim an insatiable need for robust management, storage and compute resources. According to one researcher, the cloud and new research groups are providing valuable partnerships that are making personalized medicine a reality. Read more…