Data management - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

  Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

• More data isn't always better, says Nate Silver

  Big data may seem to promise big insights to users, but more isn't always better, cautions statistician Nate Silver, who became one of America's most well-known faces of data analysis after his FiveThirtyEight blog accurately predicted 2012 presidential election results in all 50 states.

• Getting the most out of flash storage

  As powerful and beneficial as flash storage can be, many organizations are overspending on capacity they don't need, deploying flash in the wrong places, and inefficiently spending on flash applications that are not appropriate for their real business objectives.

• Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform

  Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as Amazon's Redshift service.

• Oracle's new software, Cloud revenue dropped 2 per cent in Q3

  Oracle's total revenue dipped 1 per cent and profits remained almost flat in its most recent quarter, as revenue from new software licenses and cloud services dropped by 2 per cent.

• MongoDB refines load balancing

  Following the tradition set by recent versions, the new release of the MongoDB NoSQL data store comes with a batch of new features designed to appeal to the enterprise market, including a new built-in search engine, more support for geospatial data and the ability to balance workloads across multiple servers more effectively.

• Google BigQuery update aims for enticing Hadoop users

  Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data tables.

• Hadoop Is Not Just for Linux Anymore

  The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows.

• Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows

  Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops.

• Using data feeds the bottom line says EIU

  There is a "clear link" between financial performance and the broad use of data by employees, according to research from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

• Evernote Business launch responds to data ownership fears

  A new business version of Evernote gives IT managers control over a piece of cloud-based software commonly installed by their employees.

• Python gets a big data boost from DARPA

  DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python's data processing and visualization capabilities for big data jobs.

• Neo Technology execs: How Neo4j beat Oracle Database

  In an interview, the company's CEO and senior director of products discuss the mobile possibilities of their offering and defend Java's security

• The best hardware, software, and cloud services of the year

  InfoWorld's 2013 Technology of the Year Award winners stretch from devices and desktops to data centers and beyond

• Big Data Offers Huge Potential for Smaller Companies, Intuit Says

  'Tis the season for prognostications. Staring into the big data crystal ball one thing seems clear: We can expect to see the continuing growth of the Internet; wireless networks; social media; and the number of mobile devices, sensors and other digital technology that is flooding us with new data every minute of every day.