On Aug. 6, Google and IBM announced a new open development alliance based around IBM's POWER microprocessors. The two tech giants, along with graphics processor maker NVIDIA, network hardware company Mellanox and Taiwanese server manufacturer Tyan, are fo

Of big data's famously challenging three Vs—volume, variety, and velocity—it's velocity that is poised for an enormous breakout from a glut of information generated by the Internet of things. - Soon, sensors on everything from cell phones to refrigera...

Enterprises are still moving slowly to adopt predictive and advanced analytics systems, so companies looking for an advantage may be able to find one by turning their organizations away from decisions based on gut feelings and towards those based on data.

Enterprises are still moving slowly to adopt predictive and advanced analytics systems, so companies looking for an advantage may be able to find one by turning their organizations away from decisions based on gut feelings and towards those based on data.

The enterprise data warehouse isn't dead just yet. - Bjarne Berg, co-founder of the business intelligence consultancy Comerit, said, 99 percent of Fortune 500 companies are still using some kind of enterprise data warehouse (EDW).

Many enterprises are still struggling with how to get value out of their own data. - But some companies, like online real estate marketplace Zillow, have made products  entirely out of data from outside their organization. In Zillow's case,

Despite the growing complexity of big data and the methods to analyze it, self-service analytics and business intelligence tools are hitting the market in droves. - That's because an offshoot of the big data blitz is that appetite for data analysis,

Hackathons have become a popular way for developers and data geeks with similar interests to connect and create problem-solving or entrepreneurial applications. - But the creative process of locking like-minded professionals in a room to find valuable...

Data projects have traditionally started in IT or by line-of-business managers looking to get ahead. - But now that data is more often viewed as a valuable asset, C-suite executives are proposing and sponsoring big data projects more regularly,

One in a series of articles profiling university programs focusing on big data and analytics education.  St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia identified a growing need for a new kind of business program.  Positions were opening up g