It’s hard to think of a more worthwhile use for big data than saving lives – and around the world the healthcare industry is finding more ways to do that every day. 

From predicting epidemics to curing cancer and making staying in hospital a more pleasant experience, big data is proving invaluable to improving outcomes.

This is very good news indeed – as the cost of caring has skyrocketed in recent years and is expected to continue to do so as the population ages – to the point…

Originally posted here.

Retailers know they need Big Data and are charging forward to get in the game.  But many retailers continue to face challenges. What type of data should be collected? How should the data be used to generate insights? How do I measure ROI?

Why Retailers Use Big Data

101data recently surveyed US retailers, across a range of…

Guest blog post by Vincent Granville

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• Algorithm (also: API,…

Infographics by Adeptia. You’re probably familiar with the terms byte, megabyte, and gigabyte — but do you know what a terabyte is? How about a petabyte, or an exabyte?

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Data Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) represents a new approach to efficiently blend people, processes and technologies.  A customizable dPaaS with unified integration and data management enables organizations to harness the value of their data assets to improve decision outcomes and operating performance.

dPaaS provides enterprise-class scalability enabling…

Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software manages the data centers that run the software-driven economy.  With users – both employees and customers – increasingly engaging with company apps and websites via mobile devices, managing data center capacity and efficiency has become strategic.

IT teams face conflicting challenges.  On one hand, they try…

Originally posted by Matei Zaharia (creator of Apache Spark) in databricks

Today, we’re celebrating an important milestone for the Spark project — it’s now been five years since Spark was…

Guest blog post by Vincent Granville

Based on requests from clients - vendors of data processing platforms and products - as well as trends in popular blogs,  job postings, and my own reading. Here are a few topics recently gaining strong traction (items beyond #13 were recently added)::…