As organisations work to make Big Data broadly available in the form of easily consumable analytics, they should consider outsourcing functions to the cloud.
Diving into the data flood
Virtually every kind of company will eventually have to become a data-driven enterprise. It’s a matter of competition. Here, experts share strategies for making the most of IoT data.
Oracle makes Big Data push
Oracle has released a series of Big Data products that aggregate and analyse data from Hadoop, NoSQL and SQL technologies
Red Hat releases fresh SDS offering
Red Hat has announced the availability of the release of Red Hat Storage Server 3, its software-defined storage solution for scale-out file storage.
Intel unveils Knights’ Landing at supercomputing conference
Intel has unveiled a raft of new innovations and software tools to tap the power of Big Data at the Supercomputing Conference 2013 held in Denver, Colorado.
WD unveils WD Se hard drive line
WD has announced availability of its innovative WD Se line of hard drives, the first designed for scale-out data centre deployments.
Do-it-yourself Big Data
Gulf Air shunned the expensive solutions of the big vendors jumping on the Big Data bandwagon, and became the first Middle East organisation to implement the technology by embracing open-source software with an in-house team.
VMware and MapR hope to simplify virtualised big data
MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualise Big Data applications and get better support at the same time.
Learning the ropes
At its Universe event in Copenhagen, Teradata unveiled a new approach to big data which allows organisations to embrace the …
The big issue
As CNME prepares to host the Middle East’s first event entirely focused on big data, it delves head first into …
Tooling up
Teradata is pitching a new approach to big data, which allows organisations to embrace the technology in an easier and …
Teradata adds new components to its Unified Data Architecture
Teradata today introduced the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6700 platform, which adds a fabric-based hyper-speed nervous system and a …
Turnaround time
Following a year of tribulations, HP finished 2012 on a high at its Discover 2012 conference in Frankfurt with what …
HP reveals new information optimisation solutions
HP today announced new and enhanced information optimisation solutions that help enterprises manage, understand and act upon the variety, velocity …
Microsoft announces in-memory addition to SQL Server
In a move to speed online transaction processing (OLTP), Microsoft is adding in-memory capabilities into its SQL Server relational database …
Major vendors announce software support for 64-bit ARM
Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is …
Big data with Philip Roy, Director of Greenplum MEA, EMC
1) One of the current IT buzz words is big data, which presents an opportunity for companies to invest in …
IBM refreshes analysis offerings
At IBM’s Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a …
Dell expands open source, cloud initiatives
Dell today announced the expansion of three open source software and cloud computing initiatives: the formalisation of Project Sputnik resulting …
Greenplum Analytics Workbench announced at EMC World 2012
At EMC World 2012, EMC announced that the Greenplum Analytics Workbench – a 1,000-node cluster that will act as a …