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Big ‘Mobile Phone’ Data predicts crimes before they happen
While it’s true that crime can occur anywhere and criminals come in all shapes and sizes, it’s still possible to find patterns in the data. Thus, while it can be difficult to predict if a specific individual is likely to commit a crime, attempts to determine when are where crimes might take place can be ...
Google abandons ‘forced’ sign-up policy for Google+
Google seems to have relented on its tough policy towards its not-so-popular social network Google+. Back in July, Google announced users no longer have to use their real names on the site, and now it’s decided to end its policy of ‘forcing’ new users to sign up for a Google+ account. When Google launched its ...
What’s next for Infor after the cloud? You guessed it – Big Data | #Inforum2014
Infor Inc. has achieved something that the likes of Oracle Corp. and SAP could only dream of. That is, it’s successfully transformed itself into a fully-fledged cloud-based software solutions company that, according to Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang, “has delivered” on its promises. Eager to shed some light on the transformation within the company, Charles ...
The State of Hadoop 2014: Who’s using it and why
Now more than eight years old, the Apache Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data is on the verge of hitting the big time. Or at least that’s what the industry keeps on telling us anyway. But how big is Hadoop really? Are many organizations actually using it? If so, what are they using ...
No change at Oracle: Ellison still holds an iron grip over HIS company
Larry Ellison may have stepped down as CEO of Oracle Corp., but he’s still running things from behind the scenes. Ellison, officially the third-richest man in the US after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had just $2,000 when he co-founded Oracle in 1977. In just 27 years he’s presided over its transformation into a $182 ...
SAP suddenly becomes a ‘cloud giant’ with $8bn Concur acquisition
Enterprise software giant SAP SE has just grown new legs following the acquisition of enterprise travel and business expense management software maker Concur Technologies in a massive $8.3 billion deal. The Germany-based firm announced it’ll pay $129 a share to buy out Concur, which is a 20 percent premium on the Seattle firm’s listed stock ...
VMware offers ‘Safe Passage’ to AirWatch
VMware raised a few eyebrows earlier this year when it splurged over a billion dollars on AirWatch, a company that makes mobile device management (MDM) software. At the time many were asking why? After all, VMware does virtualization of servers, networks and storage, in data centers or private and public clouds. It’s most definitely not ...
Canonical & AMD team up with OpenStack-on-a-rack
Ubuntu vendor Canonical has teamed up with AMD to make it easier for users to deploy an OpenStack private cloud. The companies have cobbled together AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server Edition, and OpenStack together with a bunch of tools that allow users to build more reliable and flexible private OpenStack clouds. To make ...
MapR 4.0.1 release lets you ‘Drill’ into your Big Data
MapR has just added Apache Drill to its Hadoop distro, giving its customers a new way to use SQL to query their Big Data stores. The open-source Drill project is one that’s been largely developed by MapR itself. The aim was to create something similar to Google’s own Dremel data analysis tool, which is available ...
IBM brings Big Data to the masses with Watson Analytics
In the three years since IBM’s Watson computer destroyed the two all-time Jeopardy! champions in an exhibition game, many people have wondered how IBM will bring the Watson question answering technology to market. Now those questions are being answered. IBM yesterday released a new data analytics tool called Watson Analytics aimed at helping everyone from secretaries ...