Predicting weather events starts with focus on the business impact
When minutes and seconds can make the difference between life and death, as it did this week in Oklahoma and does whenever a natural disaster or serious weather situation occurs, every bit of advanced notice matters. Forecasting and public communications have improved significantly over the last decade and have no doubt saved many lives. And some big data analysts hope they can continue to improve those capabilities and continue to save more lives.
Supermarket chain looks to big data to reduce energy costs
United Kingdom-based supermarket chain Tesco, a 70 billion euro company, is working with IBM Dublin's research laboratories on an experimental research project to significantly reduce Tesco's energy costs.
Where is the center of big data?
The New York Times today profiled Cisco CEO John Chambers' new strategy for big data and in the process, put a fine point on the most important question for the big data market, one being answered with four different approaches by some of the biggest names in networking and computing: "The question could ultimately be whether the center of the system is in the data, as EMC thinks, or in H.P.'s servers, IBM's software, or Cisco's network."
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Big data community can't hide from premature elections
But we do have data, lots and lots of data. And campaigns have money, lots and lots of money. The two are joining forces and will be a focal point for the next presidential campaign, which is already underway.
Predicting weather events starts with focus on the business impact
When minutes and seconds can make the difference between life and death, as it did this week in Oklahoma and does whenever a natural disaster or serious weather situation occurs, every bit of advanced notice matters. Forecasting and public communications have improved significantly over the last decade and have no doubt saved many lives. And some big data analysts hope they can continue to improve those capabilities and continue to save more lives.
Supermarket chain looks to big data to reduce energy costs
United Kingdom-based supermarket chain Tesco, a 70 billion euro company, is working with IBM Dublin's research laboratories on an experimental research project to significantly reduce Tesco's energy costs.
Big data creating more jobs than we can fill
Talent shortages may persist in the big data market, but at least companies are beginning to understand what skills they need.
Following up on big data dump of hospital pricing
Earlier this month, FierceBigData reported on the big data dump that the Department of Health and Human Services provided on the pricing habits of hospitals. This week, Forbes followed up on its original reporting with further analysis of what the data tells us.
M&A in big data security
This week, Blue Coat Systems announced its intention to acquire Solera Networks, a big data security intelligence and analytics company, for an undisclosed sum.
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Let businesses strike back at online attackers and allow them to retrieve stolen information from the origin networks. This summarizes one of the recommendations outlined in "The IP Commission Report," put together by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.
Despite having been identified years ago, the Preferred Networks List Wi-Fi bug remains unaddressed on many smartphones, warns security expert Raul Siles.
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