100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?
University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on a mission—to measure everything his body consumes, performs,…
Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream (Part Two)
Did you miss out? It’s ok. We’ll fill you in. Part one of this two-part exploration of Hadoop’s affect on…
SAP’s Social Layer: Making Collaboration Real
You’ll recall a few weeks back I wrote a post about attending SAP’s SAPPHIRENOW user conference this past May discussing…
Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B
The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today. One of the biggest questions was where would…
Food Data : The next target of Massive Analytics
It has been a very busy period since my last post but also a very interesting one. At the Social…
Teleportd: Big Data Meets Social to Detect Photo-Worthy Events
This week’s LeWeb London conference gave me the opportunity to catch up with Gabriel Hubert, co-founder of French startup Teleportd.…
10 Trends Shaping Big Data in Financial Services
The world is flush with news around the concept of big data – the influx of data from the Internet, mobile…
Fascination with Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream. (Part One)
Interest in Hadoop – a free open-source Java-based framework from the Apache Software Foundation that supports the distribution and running…
4 Best Practices for Sharing Workforce Data: A Mobile Component
Ultimately, the success of a workforce analytics solution depends upon how well HR professionals are able to share and collaborate…
