SKA partners on exascale research

SKA partners on exascale research

Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation, is joining the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer...

Terracotta unveils BigMemory 4.0

Terracotta, the leader in in-memory technologies for enterprise big data, has unveiled the newest version of its flagship in-memory data platform, BigMemory. With BigMemory version 4.0, enterprises can move up to hundreds of terabytes of high-value data from slow disk...

Will the 2013 big data trend last?

No matter which industry users are involved in, the chances that they have heard about the concept of “big data” as a “big” trend for 2013, are quite high. In fact, the IDC is predicting that the big data market will grow at a rate of 31,7% until it reaches...

Big data under the spotlight

More than 75% of midsize to large businesses will be implementing big data-related solutions within the next 12 months – with customer care, marketing and sales departments increasingly driving demand. According to Microsoft’s Global Enterprise Big Data Trends:...

Key BI trends for the year ahead

When it comes to predicting key areas of focus for IT in 2013, most analysts agree on three areas: big data; the cloud; and mobility, says Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data Management.  These trends are driven primarily by business’ desire to improve the customer...