Big Data Analytics
A conversation with the ‘father of Hadoop’
Doug Cutting weighs in on the present and future of Hadoop’s role in the world, from an obscure database to being the basis of big data analytics.
MDeC and Tentspark announce 2nd edition of BDA app challenge
MDeC and Tentspark have jointly launched the National Big App Challenge (BAC) 2.0, open to individuals, developers, ISVs, startups and students who will have to develop apps that showcase the importance of big data analytics in solving societal issues.
Customer churn: Telcos must turn big data into smart data
Utilising big data analytics to personalise the customer experience will be crucial for telcos to manage customer churn and improve loyalty, according to UK-based research and analyst firm Ovum.
Big Data Analytics will find its own way
Big Data Analytics or BDA gets a lot of airplay these days. Cyberview managing director Faris Yahaya breaks it down to its simplest terms, tells us why it is important, and how it’s going to help.
SAS partners with MDeC on big data analytics drive
SAS Malaysia has announced a partnership with that country’s national ICT custodian Multimedia Development Corporation to establish a Centre of Excellence to promote big data analytics.
SAP Startup Focus Acceleration Programme launched in Singapore
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), technology solutions provider SAP Asia and investment firm August Capital Partners (ACP) have launched the SAP Startup Focus Acceleration Programme in Singapore.
Forget data warehousing, it’s ‘data lakes’ now
EMC Corp has announced the Federation Business Data Lake, a fully engineered solution that includes leading storage and big data analytics technologies from EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal, and VMware.
BDA awareness growing, but not momentum: Teradata Malaysia
Telcos and banks in Malaysia applying analytics, but on a siloed basis
Lack of adoption likely driven by attitude, not cost or resources
The IoT, and how not to hoard your data
IT managers need to consider the sources of data, the frequency of reporting, and how that data will be used, so that they can design policies to identify what to keep, where to keep it, and for how long, writes Mark Bentkower of CommVault Systems.
Fusionex targets ambitious 10fold growth
Fusionex International founder Ivan Teh is certainly very confident about his company’s prospects, and is targeting a 10fold growth over the next three years. Goh Thean Eu finds out what exactly is driving this optimism.
