Jun 11, 2013
After President Obama was re-elected in 2012, it emerged that his campaign had successfully used big data analytics in ways no other political campaign had done before. The team of over 100 people started with the core data of the voters’ roll, modelled how they...
Jun 6, 2013
Within big data lies huge value, which organisations ignore at their peril, says Ayanda Dlamini, business development manager at LGR Telecommunications. Big data is raising a lot of questions within business, but it’s a phenomenon nobody can afford to ignore. Within...
May 30, 2013
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, unveiled the Big Data Storage System OceanStor N9000. Based on the innovative concept of “X-in-One”, Huawei OceanStor N9000 converges storage, analysis, and...
May 22, 2013
Bringing the issue of security into the big data discussion often produces two divergent schools of thought from IT professionals − categorical denial that big data should be treated any differently from existing network infrastructure, and an opposite response...
May 22, 2013
It’s recognised that big data not only exists but that it has great potential to disrupt well-established vertical markets. Google commented on the fact that every two days, users generate as much information as was created between the dawn of civilisation and 2003,...
