Advances in next generation sequencing mean we are now enjoying the era of the sub-1000-dollar genome, and the world’s genomic databases are expanding exponentially with primary sequence data from more and more individuals daily. These terabytes of genomic data, alongside the growing wealth of digital health records and clinical trials, bring invaluable insights into the …
In December 2014, I asked whether we were at the beginning of “the end of the Hadoop bubble.” I kept updating my Hadoop bubble watch through the much-hyped IPOs of Hortonworks and Cloudera. The question was whether an open-source distributed storage technology which Google invented (and quickly replaced with better tools) could survive as a …
Big data is a catch-all term but, broadly speaking, it refers to the large volume of internal and external data that can now be captured and analysed to improve organisational and financial performance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) in UK businesses now have more data at their fingertips than ever before, and their role is changing …
According to IDC’s Data Age 2025 research, the amount of data across the globe that’s open to analysis is set to grow by a factor of 50 within just six years. As such, in 2025, the world is set to be creating 163 zetabytes (163 trillion gigabytes) of data a year. That data comes from …
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GeoSpock, which offers an “extreme-scale” spatial big data integration platform for faster parallel processing, is opening two new offices in Singapore and Japan. Cambridge, UK-headquartered GeoSpock’s expansion into Asia will see the company “further deepen its existing partnerships” and “identify new opportunities for growth” within the smart cities, IoT, enterprise, assets and logistics market segments, …
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Three well-funded startups – Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc., and MapR Technologies Inc. — emerged a decade ago to commercialize products and services in the open-source ecosystem around Hadoop, a popular software framework for processing huge amounts of data. The hype peaked in early 2014 when Cloudera raised a massive $900 million funding round, valuing it …
Database development and management are changing dramatically, as microservices gain wider use in the enterprise. That’s according to Zhamak Dehghani, principal consultant at Chicago-based ThoughtWorks, a global technology consulting firm specializing in Agile methods, distributed systems and open source software adoption. The firm has been active in bringing together microservices and big data. Microservices bear …
Big data is becoming an essential element for businesses to remain competitive in any industry. Whether they are using it to understand and predict consumption patterns or improve operational efficiency. Companies like Salesforce CRM can see the burgeoning demand for big data and the analytics involved. They are planting their stake deep in the foundation …
Big Data is considered as one of the most trending and emerging technologies. With the increase in data, organisations are adopting these technologies to gain better insights from the data. Big Data analysts help organisations to fulfil their needs by curating valuable insights from raw data. In this article, we list down 6 must-have skills …
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DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Innovations in 5G, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Cloud Computing” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. “Innovations in 5G, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Cloud Computing” Tweet this This edition of IT, Computing and Communications (ITCC) TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides a snapshot of the emerging ICT led innovations in artificial intelligence, …
