The sports world is using statistical analysis more and more. Dominic Pollard takes some lessons back to business
TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
News Big Data
Cloudera, Hadapt Produce Advanced Hadoop Package
Cloudera is providing a user-friendly front end for Hadoop, while Hadapt integrates the tool with relational databases
IBM Launches New Business Process Software
Big Blue's BPM goes through an evolution
IBM Helps Leicester Tigers Predict Their Game
Predictive analytics will be used to help the team reduce number and severity of injuries
IBM Snaps Up Vivisimo To Bolster Big Data Analytics
Acquisition will bring 140 new customers to IBM, including Airbus, Procter & Gamble and the US Navy
Dell Brings In CloudStack Partners
Canonical, enStratus and Mirantis are to provide products and services around Dell's OpenStack and Hadoop efforts
Red Hat’s Clustered Storage Polishes Gluster
Red Hat's open source cloud file system supports Hadoop for big data
IBM Updates DB2, InfoSphere Warehouse 10 for Big Data
IBM has updated its DB2 database, as well as releasing InfoSphere Warehouse 10 for big data
Apache Promotes Big Data Tool
Sqoop, a big data tool for transferring data between Hadoop and structured data stores, has graduated to top-level project status at the Apache Software Foundation
IBM £26.6m Exascale Project To Power World’s Largest Radio Telescope
The Square Kilometre Array will process twice the amount of data generated on the Internet every day
AWS Cloud Hosts Massive Human Genetics Catalogue
AWS gives researchers instant access to the complete 200TB database from the 1000 Genomes Project
SAS Introduces Graphical Analytics Tool
SAS Visual Analytics applies analytics to massive amounts of data and allows it to be shared via the web or iPad
DataDirect Networks Targets Big Data With New Appliances
DataDirect Networks has launched two physically smaller storage appliances that target the 'big data' sector
EMC Combines Big Data, Social Nets And App Development With Pivotal Labs Buy
Pivotal Tracker will combine with EMC's Chorus to harmonise applications for Big Data developers
Microsoft Moves Into Big Data With SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 is set for a 1 April release, with features designed for larger workloads either on-premises or in the cloud
Big Data Means Big Growth For Vendors, Claims IDC
An IDC study estimates value of the 2015 market for big data technology and services will be five times that of 2010
SAS Adds Hadoop Support For Big Data Customers
SAS has increased access to big data sources for its customers after adding Hadoop integration
Xeon E5 Servers Cut Energy And Eat Big Data: In Pictures
Major server vendors unveil more energy efficient Xeon E5 servers in London
IBM’s Watson Heads To Wall Street With Citigroup
IBM's Watson is heading to Wall Street following an agreement between IBM and Citigroup's banking operations
MapR Hadoop Inks Informatica Tie-In
The MapR Hadoop open source batch analytics software package will become available with Informatica's data integration platform through four different vendors
Informatca Big Data Tuesdays 5-Part Webinar Series: Extract Value From Unstructured Data With MapReduce
The interest in evaluating or deploying Hadoop and other MapReduce-based technologies is higher than ever. One of the key driving factors has been the potential to allow an organization to extract greater value from the massive volu ...
Cray Makes Big Data Move With Analytics Appliance
Cray is aiming to assist companies dealing with 'big data' analytics with the launch of its new graph appliance
Microsoft Will Make Hadoop Data Available Through Excel
With Excel output, the Big Data crunching platform could become more appealing to smaller companies
VMware Helps Java Developers Handle Big Data With Spring Hadoop
VMware's Spring Hadoop targets enterprise Java developers who want to create Big Data analysis applications
Oracle Exalytics Exits Experimental Stage
Oracle's in-memory Big Data analytics appliance, Exalytics, has now moved out of the testing stage to reach GA status
RSA 2012: SHadoop Adds Security To Big Data
Zettaset's SHadoop is intended to make it easier for organisations to control user access to data within Hadoop clusters
IBM QRadar Security Analytics Platform Uses X-Force Threat Database
IBM's security intelligence platform arose from the Q1 Labs acquisition and accesses 400 malware databases
HP Shows Planned Autonomy Products At Partner Conference
Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch unveiled a corporate search appliance along with video and mobile products in Las Vegas
HP Makes Server And Analytics Announcements At Partner Event
At its partner conference in Las Vegas, HP announced updates to Vertica, a new chip slotting mechanism, and announced an ARM server test lab
Birst Looks To Ease Hadoop Adoption Concerns
Birst is offering to help companies battling with 'big data' after announcing support for Hadoop