Big Data

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Bigger Data at the Human-Machine Interface

The demand to use big data for a competitive advantage in commercial fields has never been greater, but all too often practitioners get distracted by the data's noise, instead ...Full Article

IBM Promotes Era of Cognitive Computing

Cognitive computing, not digitization, is the destination enterprises should target, and employees should not worry about mass layoffs but rather seek out new career opportunities, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty ...Full Article

Aaron Schildkrout, head of data, at Uber

How Uber Uses Big Data to Optimize Customer Experience

If you’ve ever used Uber, you’re aware of how ridiculously simple the process is. You press a button, a car shows up, you go for a ride, and you ...Full Article

CMU and Boeing Establish Aerospace Data Analytics Lab

Partnership provides underscores the collision between big data and HPC that's spurring academic-industry collaboration.Full Article

Big Data Plays Arresting Role in White Collar Crime

User-friendly analytics tools with graphical presentation tools plus big data solutions and the ability to more easily search and track fiscal anomalies give financial crime fighters a much stronger ...Full Article

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Data Surveillance: Because “Data is Where the Money Is”

Infamous felon Willie Sutton robbed his first bank in 1927 and went on to make illegitimate withdrawals of millions of dollars from some dozens of banks over two decades. Sutton ...Full Article

Larry Smarr: Building the Big Data Superhighway

Internet pioneer Larry Smarr is now spearheading an initiative to create a high-speed virtual super highway for big data. EnterpriseTech shares the details in a Q&A.Full Article

VoltDB Updates In-Memory Operational Database

By enhancing the familiarity of SQL with capabilities that allow organizations to accelerate development cycles, streaming analytics, and time-to-market, VoltDB hopes to shine a light on enterprises' once "dark ...Full Article

How to Build a Data Lake in One Simple Step

Gartner turned heads last year when it declared the majority of data lake projects would end in failure. As a self-avowed “old dog” of data warehousing, EMC’s Bill Schmarzo ...Full Article

Phemi’s Big Data Approach: Never Trust, Always Verify

To address organizations' security, privacy, and data silo challenges, Phemi today unveiled its Zero Trust Data approach to big data which is based on the Zero Trust Networking model ...Full Article