Rajesh Janey, President, India & SAARC, EMC EMC is betting big on big data and has invested over $2.5 billion and acquired four companies in the last three years to strengthen its offering. Concerned about the lack of adequate talent in the country, the company has now launched professional training and certification courses in cloud → Read More
A little consolidation in the world of big data and Apache Hadoop development: WANdisco, a UK/U.S.-based provider of collaboration software that focuses on the open-source Apache Subversion revision control system, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Palo-Alto-based AltoStor, which will help it further develop its big data products. Publicly-traded WANdisco is paying
Data-analytics applications company Globys claims that it’s possible to double a telcos’ prepaid recharge revenue by using big data. The company has long worked with telcos around the world for fixed-line and mobile billing offerings, but in the last three to four years, it has made a play in using big data for targeted marketing. → Read More
Big Data Talent War: 7 Ways To Win (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Monster Worldwide, parent company of the popular Monster.com job website, has chosen Splunk software to manage security, monitoring and compliance efforts for its online hosting business, Splunk announced on Monday. Splunk’s log-management and analytic-systems software captures, monitors, indexes and → Read More
Source Technoratti Big Data is one of the buzzwords of the year, if not the buzzword. It describes collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization. Information Technology is now increasingly able to → Read More
Discovery Digital realized how much it needed Facebook. And 1-800 Flowers has found new audiences on the fly that increased sales. Both claim that Big Data is behind it. Executives from both companies spoke yesterday at ad:tech New York, the two-day digital marketing conference being held this week- in spite of wind and snow in → Read More
As anyone who eagerly plunged into the likes of Facebook, Groupon or Zynga when they went public can attest, investing in hot social media businesses can be extremely hazardous to your financial health
Summary: Could Data Science be the tech skill that puts India in a position of unqualified leadership
In the first post in this series, we referenced a landmark McKinsey study from last year that explored the concept of how “Big Data” will change how companies compete in the market through developing information advantages. Even though the McKinsey report is long on vision and examples, it is unfortunately short on procurement (we’ll aim → Read More
