Daily Big Data Feed – Sep 18, 2012

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

  • Case study: ING Direct taps big data to understand customers

    • ZDNet This has prompted ING Direct to dabble in big-data solutions to expedite the process of using all of the collected data to help make business decisions. As part of its five-year vision around data, the bank is planning to invest AU$1 million to execute … (more)

  • ‘Big data’ and the need for improved time synchronization standards

    • Consulting-Specifying Engineer ‘Big data’ and the need for improved time synchronization standards. Without time synchronization, vast streams of data have limited use. Sam Sciacca. 09/18/2012. Bookmark and Share. The creation, communication, storage, and analysis of ever-greater … (more)

  • How Facebook Is Handling All That Really Big Data

    • eWeek Facebook designs its own servers and networking. It designs and builds its own data centers. Its staff writes most of its own applications and creates virtually all of its own middleware. Everything about its operational IT unites it in one extremely … (more)

  • Do you need a data scientist?

    • CIO Magazine When the term data scientist was first discussed 18 months ago, Frankenstein’s laboratory came to mind. As we continue to research the job descriptions of data scientists, we now realise it’s a legitimate role that is useful in a lot of organisations … (more)

  • Big Data And Its Big Problems

    • NPR (blog) As Big Data science increases our ability to model or simulate complex systems, these models, ironically, become as complex as the real world. But they are not the real world. Whether its astrophysics or the economy, building a computer model still … (more)

  • Hortonworks’ Hadoop Dilemma: Get Rich Giving Ideas Away

    • InformationWeek How do you stand out as an innovator when you share everything you do with an open source community? That’s the challenge for Hortonworks as it marks its first year as an independent company and its first 90 days distributing an entirely open source … (more)

  • How to Get Your Arms Around Big Data

    • CRN (blog) As solution providers’ customers increasingly employ business intelligence tools, dealing with “big data” is becoming a greater challenge. It’s an ideal opportunity for solution providers, as many business execs are unfamiliar with mining this type of … (more)

  • Why ‘Big Data’ is Big Opportunity for Integrators

    • CEPro (blog) The term “Big Data” is a new buzzword in the IT world. It is defined by Tim Herbert, CompTIA’s vice president of research, as the volume, velocity and variety of data that exceeds an organization’s storage or compute capacity for accurate and timely … (more)

  • A picture of big data worth more than a thousand d…

    • Experian QAS Big data has become a big deal for companies, spanning industries from marketing teams to healthcare providers. Yet, many individuals are still unable to nail down an exact definition of big data. Some consider it a large collection of data that’s … (more)

  • Marketing as a Data Science | Adobe Digital Marketing Blog

    • Hello world! This is my first blog post, so an introduction is customary. I have worked in the digital marketing, social media, branding and analytics consulting … (more)

  • 1010Data Launches Cloud-Based Community for Big Data Management

    • eWeek The Analytical Dataspace is a forum where enterprises can analyze large datasets in near-real time, combine their own data with other organizations’ data to gain new analytical insights, and start new revenue streams from selling their data. (more)

  • Cloud Security Alliance’s Big Data Working Group Targets Security, Privacy

    • Integration Developers The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has launched a Big Data Working Group to explore best practices and technology solutions for big data privacy and security, especially for sensitive data in the areas of government, health care and ecommerce. by Vance … (more)

  • Comparing SaaS Machine Learning Offerings Data Science Central

    • There are various offerings out there if you want to use machine learning in your analysis nowadays. Nick WIlson spent his internship at BigML comparing … (more)

  • Big Data, Big Cloud, Big Deal

    • Virtualization Review (blog) When I think of big data I don’t really think of the cloud. First I think of big servers and big processors. Then I think of in-memory where this data is in RAM for lightning fast analysis. This sure ain’t the cloud. The other problem is big data doesn … (more)