Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 1, 2012

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

  • Oracle: Big Business Has Big Data Woes

    • New York Times (blog) Oracle: Big Business Has Big Data Woes. By QUENTIN HARDY. Mark Hurd, co-president of Oracle, speaking at last year’s Oracle OpenWorld in Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Mark Hurd, co-president of Oracle, speaking at last year’s Oracle OpenWorld in San … (more)

  • MySQL Connect Liveblog: Big Data is a Big Scam: Most of the Time …

    • By sheeri
    I was very excited about this session at MySQL Connect by Daniel Austin of PayPal. I have been talking about this session for a few weeks, on 2 different podcasts, and 2 different blog posts. But I was a bit nervous, because the description was … (more)

  • Hadoop Jobtracker web administration tool, hadoop job -list and …

    • By romedius
    Unfortunately the Jobtracker web administration tool, hadoop job -list and Tasktrackers Web UI’s show no informations. The shown paths and hostnames seem to be fine after setting the dns resolution manually. But when I run a job, the job … (more)

  • Big Data and the Marketing Organization

    • ClickZ This includes big data analytics, attribution modeling, integrated social analytics, and spend management. There are a also a lot of standalone solutions for what I call “digital marketing optimization” – everyone from large firms like Accenture to … (more)

  • Oracle Big Data and Innovation: President Mark Hurd

    • The VAR Guy Oracle President Mark Hurd describes Big Data challenges, and the need for CIOs to both innovate while cutting costs even as storage requirements grow exponentially. Filed at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 by The VAR Guy (http://www.thevarguy.com). (more)

  • Oracle Big Data Strategy and Java Sensors: OpenWorld 2012

    • The VAR Guy Oracle Senior VP Judson Althoff discusses how big data applications tied to Java sensors will drive machine-to-machine communications and allow customers to make more informed business decisions. Recorded at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 by The VAR Guy … (more)

  • An Introduction to Text Analytics Data Science Central

    • Text analytics, sometimes alternately referred to as text data mining or text mining, refers to the process of deriving high-quality information from text. (more)

  • Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

    • blogs.hbr.org (blog) Framing the basics of a big data strategy naturally leads to discussions about the kinds of information and capabilities required. For example, a review will have to consider access to analytical talent as well as potential partnerships that might help … (more)

  • Big Data, Big Headache? Cultivating Actionable Insight from Your Information

    • Business 2 Community Since I started my career in public relations, the amount of data I have been able to access about the media has grown significantly. We are talking about the days when media databases were giant books printed quarterly and delivered to your office for … (more)

  • Paypal: Big data is a scam

    • Computing Be the first to comment. Paypal home page screenshot. Daniel Austin, Paypal’s chief architect, has claimed that big data is a scam “most of the time”, stating that relational database tools can almost always solve supposed big data problems. Further … (more)

  • Aprimo Sponsorship at DMA2012 to Focus on Digital Marketing, Big Data …

    • Sacramento Bee “This year, attendees at DMA will see an expanded Aprimo presence through our sponsorship and focus on the value of digital marketing, big data analytics and customer engagement,” said Bob Boehnlein, Aprimo’s president. “For many attendees, this event … (more)

  • Nick Tomczek’s Page Data Science Central

    • You need to be a member of Data Science Central to add comments. Join Data Science Central. No comments yet. Welcome to. Data Science Central … (more)

  • TechLines: Big Data Debunked live stream

    • ZDNet We will be broadcasting from the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in New York, but we welcome participation wherever you are. To talk big data with us before, during and after the event, join the discussion on Twitter by using the hashtag #techlines. (more)

  • Telefonica Digital Targets Big Data in Silicon Valley ‘Road Trip’

    • NASDAQ MC), took what the company calls “a road trip” in Silicon Valley this week, meeting with companies and venture-capital firms about their Big Data strategies, VentureWire has learned. The goal is to move rapidly to find strategic partnerships and … (more)

  • Big Data Drives Ad-Supported Internet Job Growth

    • ClickZ The Internet advertising supported economy doubled its number of jobs in the last four years, according to a study by researchers at the Harvard University Business School, commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Some 5.1 million workers … (more)

  • Customer-Centricity, Big Data Key Themes of BS&T’s 2012 Executive Summit

    • Banktech Customer-Centricity, Big Data Key Themes of BS&T’s 2012 Executive Summit. Customer-centricity in a multi-channel environment and using data and analytics to know your customer better were among the major topics discussed during the first day of Bank … (more)