Companies are spending more on data analytics platforms, as well as experts capable of mining internal and external data-sources for insight. But are those companies actually putting those resources into good use? According to new research from Accenture, the answer is “No.” When the firm surveyed 600 executives in the United States and the United Kingdom, it found that 66 Continue reading
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Intel surprised the Big Data world by announcing its own Hadoop distribution. Aptly named the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, the distribution includes several Intel contributed enhancements that it claims will improve performance and security. Namely, it has contributed enhancements to HDFS, YARN, HBase and Hive projects. Intel also announced its proprietary Intel Manager for Continue reading
In the past few weeks we’ve been under a data deluge. There have been data-fueled debates over the performance of Tesla cars and who will win the Oscars. Esteemed journalists have pointed out what “data can’t do.” This drives home a point: Data is a hugely important theme making its influence felt all around us, regardless of whether or not Continue reading