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VoltDB Eases Fast Data App Development

Responding to the growing demand for real-time data, VoltDB announced Version 5.0 of its in-memory, scale-out operational database.The new release delivers increased support for...

Big Data Moving Beyond First Movers, Going Mainstream in 2015

Big Data Moving Beyond First Movers and Going Mainstream in 2015 by Chris Preimesberger Big Data Will Completely Change IT Operations Big data will reshape IT operations...

Cultural Gaps Impede Enterprise Big Data Efforts

A major gap exists between how CEOs and lower-level managers view big data, according to the findings of a new study sponsored by big...

Oracle Unveils New Data Center Gear, Revamps Pricing

Larry Ellison's 56-minute message at a Jan. 21 press event could have been boiled down to this: "Still faster, still more secure, but now...

Apache Spark Is Creating a Buzz in Analytics, Data Processing Camps

Apache Spark Is Creating a Buzz in Analytics, Data Processing Camps by Julia King Spark Loves Diversity Spark comes with a diverse set of libraries "out of...

How IBM Teams Up With Partners to Address the Data Deluge

How IBM Teams Up With Partners to Address the Data Deluge by Darryl K. Taft National Football League IBM helped the National Football League (NFL) redesign its...

Oracle, Seeing Cloud Sales Rise, Beats Street on Q2 Earnings

Oracle received an early and welcome holiday surprise Dec. 17 when its stock took a jump up on news that its quarterly earnings and...

Why 2015 Will Be Year of Big Data: Oracle’s Seven Predictions

Oracle has been handling big data-type workloads in its parallel databases since long before the term "big data"—and even the Internet—was born.Now that there...

Dept. of Veterans Affairs Taps IBM Watson for Help With PTSD

IBM announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using Big Blue's Watson cognitive computing technology to help veterans with posttraumatic stress...

$25 Million in VC for Infer Illustrates Trend to Predictive Analytics

"Predictive" will become a very often-used adjective in IT in 2015, even more so than it has in the past. How do we know...