Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012

	Hadoop solidified for production duty | Hadoop challenger works to add developers
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	Big Data, analytics get even bigger, hotter in 2012 Every enterprise software vendor will tell you how hot and in-demand their products are, but the notion rings fairly true with respect to business intelligence and advanced analytics. The products just kept selling throughout the global recession, as companies looked to gain insights into their business and subsequently, more efficiency as well as new ideas. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems, Inc. Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. Learn More In this Issue Hadoop solidified for production duty Hadoop challenger works to add developers Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Why enterprise software will never be the same Five open source technologies for 2012 Michael Horowitz: The down side of automated backups Akamai to pay $268M for mobile, cloud vendor Cotendo Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology MIT to open source educational software Sharon Machlis: Why Iowa caucuses don't matter: some data RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Red Hat FOUR STEPS TO A PRIVATE OR HYBRID CLOUD STEP 4: ACCELERATE BUSINESS RESULTS WITH YOUR CLOUD. WEBINAR - JANUARY 19, 2012. In the From Virtualization to Cloud webinar series, Red Hat® and the IT Process Institute guide you through the best practices of cloud-building. Learn how to optimize cloud economics, reshape behavior for IT-as-a-Service, and streamline cross-functional collaboration. REGISTER NOW Hadoop solidified for production duty After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday. Read More Hadoop challenger works to add developers LexisNexis has worked for more than a decade to develop a large scale system for Big Data manipulation, and it believes that it has produced something that's better and more mature than the better known Hadoop technology. Read More Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012 Gartner says global IT spending growth will be essentially flat in 2012. IDC is more bullish, estimating 6.9% growth, driven by investments in smartphones, media tablets, mobile networks, social networking and big data analytics. Read More Why enterprise software will never be the same It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-and-greatest. But there were still major trends worth noting, Read More Five open source technologies for 2012 Next year, if all goes according to plan, Red Hat will become the first open source software company to generate more than $1 billion a year in revenue. It will be a watershed moment for the open source community. Stig, a nonrelational database, may just ride the wave. Read More WEBCAST: Autonomy, an HP company Could You Survive a Mobile Data Audit? Date: January 10th, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM EST Join this live Webcast for a discussion on a unique approach to protecting and retaining data that resides on mobile devices by creating a meaning-based backup that allows organizations to apply intelligent legal hold policies against the full corpus of data. Learn more Michael Horowitz: The down side of automated backups The last place you would expect to hear anything negative about backing up files is a blog about defensive computing. Yet here we are, and for good reason. Read More Akamai to pay $268M for mobile, cloud vendor Cotendo Akamai Technologies has acquired Cotendo in a bid to become better at speeding up enterprise cloud and mobile traffic, the companies said. Read More Imation buys dedupe backup vendor Nine Technology Imation announced it has acquired deduplication technology from Nine Technology. Read More MIT to open source educational software As part of an initiative to expand its online course offerings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to release as open source the software it will use to manage student online learning, the institution announced. Read More Sharon Machlis: Why Iowa caucuses don't matter: some data Intense media coverage of 'first-in-the-nation' Iowa caucuses can give the impression that results actually matter. They don't -- but not for the reason many skeptics cite. Read More
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