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Big data and big agriculture
As the global population increases, weather volatility grows, and fuel prices surge, there will be more incentives to use data and…
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The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to…
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IT organizations considering open-source software for object storage must weigh the free technology against potential risks and total cost commitments.
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A mixture of big data, improved algorithms, increasingly cheaper storage, and cloud-hosted options has fueled a surge in new data mining…
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Strict E.U. regulations on data privacy have left Iceland as a key location for corporate cloud-hosting providers.
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On their own, visualization, data science and machine learning don't solve the challenge of data analysis for businesses. Users need a…
Read MoreData ethics: transparency as sustainable competitive advantage
Individuals and organizations alike face immature, emerging legislation, constantly shifting and evolving cultural and social values about central issues such as…
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Tracking customers through today's data-driven shopping journey provides retailers a fresh take on doing business and the chance to deliver the…
Read MoreHow IT can blend massive connectivity with cognitive computing to enable insights
Predictive analytics methods are extremely useful when dealing with the likes of fraudulent activity, imminent hardware failures, or credit risk. But…
Read MoreRetail’s pivotal moment: how to deliver effective personalization
While online personalization has been around for a while, only now are things really lining up for implementing it in a…
Read MoreBeyond MapReduce: How the new Hadoop works
New features included in Hadoop’s latest releases go some way towards freeing an increasingly capable data platform from the constraints of…
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