Daily Big Data Feed – May 14, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

  • Intelligent use of Big Data

    • CFO World With the likely exponential growth of this information, the thorny topic if ‘Big Data’ will undoubtedly rear its head and this is major concern for Guru Bill Inmon. While upbeat about the general state of analytics and BI, Inman sees a vast new … (more)

  • Winning business with Cloud and Big Data

    • CIOL Today’s CIOs are being asked to deal with a perfect storm of technology disruptors such as Big Data, Open Source Paradigm, Cloud, Mobile and Social Media. The combined impact of these new technological forces is not only re-shaping IT but also … (more)

  • Big Data Equals Big Business Opportunity Say Global IT and Business

    • Professionals MarketWatch (press release) INFORMATICA WORLD, LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 14, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — By a greater than two-to-one margin, organizations today view big data primarily as a business opportunity rather than an IT challenge and are moving quickly to do … (more)

  • Big Data Equals Big Business Opportunity Say Global IT and Business

    • Professionals Broadcast Newsroom Give your eLearning a makeover using best-in-class tools to author and enrich content. Apple (AAPL) today had its estimates reduced through 2013 by Credit Suisse (CS) as the firm expects US smartphone growth to slow down. A $750 price target was issued … (more)

  • Facebook’s Hidden Asset

    • ClickZ Big data. To understand Facebook’s data and its marketing and financial value, I interviewed marketing data scientist, Rhonda Knehans Drake, Drake Direct … (more)

  • SONIC(R) Uses Big Data Analytics to Drive Past Its Competitors

    • MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, NY, May 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — SONIC, the nation’s largest chain of drive-in restaurants, has embraced 1010data’s Internet-based Big Data Warehouse to analyze billions of records to enable critical business decisions ranging from … (more)

  • Big Data Search and Analytics Executive Rory Welch Slated to Speak at …

    • Virtual-Strategy Magazine CEO of WaLa! to Discuss New Approaches to Bringing Semantic-Based Big Data Search to the Masses, Leveraging Multiple Data Types and Multiple Data Sources WaLa!, a big data search and analytics platform provider, today announced that its CEO Rory Welch … (more)

  • The 9 fraud and abuse areas big data can target

    • Government Health IT Healthcare organizations and government agencies must leverage big-data collections of patient records and financial billing to identify and eliminate system abuses. Most of the above-mentioned abusive practices not only add excess cost to the … (more)

  • Amplidata is object (storage) of desire for Quantum

    • MarketWatch (press release) LOCHRISTI, Belgium, May 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amplidata, innovator in optimized object storage technology, today announced that its AmpliStor(R) XT technology has been chosen by Quantum, a proven global expert in data protection and big data … (more)

  • Remote Sr. Analytic Data Scientist – Virtual Vocations

    • An analytic scientist is needed for presales activities. Understand customer business use cases and help customers explore methods to improve business. (more)

  • Data Scientist at The Cobalt Group in Greater Boston Area Job …

    • The Cobalt Group is hiring! View and apply for the Data Scientist Job at The Cobalt Group in Greater Boston Area. (more)

  • Relevant Data Names Predictive Analytics Expert Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro,

    • Ph … MarketWatch (press release) KDnuggets.com , a leading online publication on Analytics and Data Mining, and one of the top online influencers in Big Data and Data Science. According to Marshall Sterman, Chairman and CEO, “Dr. Piatetsky-Shapiro brings a hands-on perspective and … (more)

  • Don’t Get Burned by Facebook’s ‘Hot’ IPO

    • Wall Street Journal (blog) At the blog Data Science Hacking, Jason Davis has a nice breakdown of the gap between the IPO price and the opening price of six social-media stocks I mentioned in my article on the Facebook IPO this past weekend. Four of the six priced well above the … (more)

  • Five Things CIO’s Should Know About Big Data

    • PCWorld Organizations will have to focus on data science, Kobielus said. They have to hire statistical modelers, text mining professionals, people who specialize in sentiment analysis. This may not be the same skill set that todays analysts versed in business … (more)

  • PwC releases new Technology Forecast: Reshaping the Workforce with the

    • New … MarketWatch (press release) In this issue of the Technology Forecast, PwC addresses customer analytics, new analytics technology, social media intelligence, and how CIOs can build the foundation for a data science culture. According to PwC, the flow of data at this new, … (more)