Big Data & Analytics News

A Research and Markets report indicates that the analytics-as-a-service market will grow at a 40.3-percent compound annual growth rate from $4.23 billion this year to $23 billion in 2020. The company said July 13 the growth of the market over the five-year forecast period is due to the increasing agility and scalability of businesses, lower total cost […] More

Lockheed Martin has provided digitized and coded information on world events from March 1995 to March 2014 to the open source Harvard Dataverse Network in support of research efforts on socio-political conflict. The company said Thursday its Advanced Technology Laboratories organization supplied the data gathered from 23 million news stories to help researchers perform forecasting, modeling and longitudinal […] More

The Energy Department has achieved a 30 percent increase in accuracy on wind, hydro and solar forecasts through the use of an IBM-built system that uses machine learning techniques, the company said Thursday. IBM said the Self-learning weather Model and renewable forecasting Technology platform is designed to analyze and generate weather model-derived solar forecasts through analytics, big data […] More

Hewlett-Packard and Intel have formed a partnership to establish a new center in Grenoble, France to provide engineering and technical support for enterprises as they deploy platforms to manage big data and analytics operations. HP said Monday it will combine its Apollo server-based High Performance Computing Solutions Framework with Intel’s Xeon processors, Omni-Path interconnect platform, […] More

A pair of Energy Department national laboratories, IBM and Nvidia will build two facilities at the campuses of both labs to facilitate development of applications for large-scale data computing platforms. IBM said Monday the Sierra and Summit supercomputers are scheduled for delivery to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2017 under a contract awarded by DOE in April 2014. […] More

Vion will offer Hitachi Data Systems‘ visualization products for data analytics to customers in the public sector, law enforcement and emergency management markets as both companies seek to grow their 35-year partnership. The companies plan to expand their combined services into social innovation and big data analytics in addition to joint storage offerings for U.S. federal government and public […] More

IBM has unveiled a new center in Montpellier, France to provide technical support for developers as they work to create applications for big data workload management. IBM said Thursday it collaborated with NVIDIA and Mellanox to set up the POWER Acceleration and Design Center through the OpenPower Foundation co-founded by the three firms. The center at […] More

Crunchy Data Solutions has launched a new open source database system to help government clients meet relational database requirements for a computer facility. The MLS PostgreSQL database builds on the existing PostgreSQL system and is designed to integrate with Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 6.5+ SELinux functionality, Crunchy said Thursday. Crunchy CEO Bob Laurence said the […] More

DataDirect Networks has been selected to store video surveillance data generated by the Public Transport Authority’s network of surveillance cameras in Perth, Australia. DDN’s video surveillance and storage archive system is designed to store up to 20 petabytes of data, the company said Monday. PTA intends for the centralized video surveillance storage to help detect […] More

A study commissioned by CA Technologies reports that a majority of organizations that have implemented enterprise big data strategies see or anticipate effective targeted sales and marketing campaigns and revenue growth. The company said Monday Vanson Bourne‘s “The State of Big Data Infrastructure: Benchmarking Global Big Data Users to Drive Future Performance” report shows continued interest in […] More