Blind trust in black box, or click-and-run, software is a growing problem in science, and the concern extends to big data and high performance computing. Read more »
“Social customer service” refers to those services that provide customer support via social media channels. Providing such services is no longer merely a niche or specialty sideline. Challengers, or disruptors who were early with the new technology, are working to expand and integrate their offerings into enterprise systems and processes. Read more »
Representatives at IBM and the New York Stock Exchange laid out a schematic for doing big data analytics and showed how it can work in practice. Read more »
As companies implement big data analytics strategies, they ought to consider some of the best practices in place before the rise of the term “big data.” Read more »
Media outlets such as the Guardian take a long time to produce data-backed reports and visualizations, while big data analytics apps move fast but don’t lack a human touch. Is there a happy medium? Read more »
Known for its supercomputing storage capabilities, DataDirect Networks is introducing a box for running Hadoop jobs, and a company executive sees the Hadoop hardware trend continuing. Read more »
Venture capitalists made more big data investments than ever before in 2012, and a few more deals have already closed in 2013. Entrepreneurs from several venture-backed data startups will speak at Structure:Data next month. Read more »
Elasticsearch’s Series B round of funding shows continuing interest among easy-to-use, open-source big-data analytics tools. The funding also heats up the competition for a market leader. Read more »
New hardware from Bina Technologies gives analysts another example of a use case in which the public cloud isn’t always the most appropriate solution. Read more »
To enable big-data analytics, ParAccel will charge users without consideration of nodes or terabytes through its Right to Deploy model. Read more »
IBM is introducing a PureSystems box for analyzing big data, and the New York Stock Exchange is a customer. But other infrastructure vendors make comparable boxes, and cloud options are also available. Read more »
Opportunities for big data and data-analytics firms in health care are likely to expand dramatically in the coming years. Driving this are trends such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the use of data to address inefficient processes, and the rapid growth of mobile health. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
