
MIT Researchers Find Solution to Datacenter Network Lag
Next month, MIT researchers will present a breakthrough discovery that could change the way Web and mobile apps are written and help large corporations in making their datacentres more efficient. Given that large websites have datacentres that are prone to congestion – “packets of data arriving at the same router

Cloud Infrastructure Sales Set to Increase
In a report recently published by IDC, it was suggested that cloud technologies are significantly disrupting infrastructure sales in EMEA, with estimates that $3.4 billion was spent on hardware going to cloud environments during 2013 (marking a 21% increase compared to 2012). “Along with big data, social, and mobility, cloud

Infographic: 7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Life by 2020
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Infographic: 5 Reasons The World Needs A New Database Technology
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The History of BI: The 2000’s and Now
Our three part Business Intelligence series has looked at the key developments in BI from the 1960’s all the way to the late 1990’s. In the first edition, we focused on the way data storage changed from hierarchical database management systems (DBMS), like IBM’s IMS in the 60’s, to network

The Week in Big Data — July 14, 2014
Another eventful week in big data: we have finished our “Understanding Big Data” series; read about the ever growing penetration of data science university courses; and seen a historic partnership announced between IBM and Apple. Below are some of our favourite picks of the week. TOP DATACONOMY ARTICLES Understanding Big

IBM Revenues Down but Big Data, Cloud and Mobile on the Rise
After an eventful week for IBM, with the announcement of its historic partnership with Apple, the company yesterday announced its quarterly earnings, reporting higher than expected quarterly revenue. IBM reported second quarter revenue of $24.4 billion, a decline in revenue by 2 percent overall, but also beating consensus expectations of

Oracle Social Cloud Announce LinkedIn Support
Oracle Social Cloud on Tuesday announced LinkedIn support for its Social Relationship Management (SRM) platform, allowing Oracle Social customers the ability to publish, engage, automate, and analyze LinkedIn activities within the Oracle SRM platform. Oracle will now join LinkedIn’s Certified Company Page Partners Program, which offers tools and services to