VA deploying millions of sensors to track, well, everything
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun installing millions of sensors on just about anything that costs more than $50.
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EMC to buy web intelligence provider Silver Tail Systems
EMC has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis.
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Moving beyond Hadoop for big data needs
Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets.
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Q&A: What's needed to get a big data job?
The torrents of data produced by social networks, sensors, supply chains and every imaginable device are creating thousands of new jobs, as Michael Rappa projected when he created the first master's degree program in the U.S. that's devoted to data analytics.