Research firm Gartner have projected a 2.1% growth in global IT spending, equating to $3.7 trillion, compared to an almost flat growth last year. This is marked decrease from their last projections; in April, they predicted 3.2% growth and a $3.8 trillion market by the end of 2014. Gartner analyst

Twitter has detailed its home-grown, real-time analytics system TSAR (Time Series AggregatoR) in a blog post. The system is focused on automating and aggregating data collection, as well as integrating the various components Twitter uses, such as Hadoop and Storm. In their data collection and processing pipeline, Twitter are using

It has been an eventful week for big data. We’ve seen funding records broken, the announcement of collaboration between Dell, Cloudera and Intel, and the implementation of sensors in lamp posts to collect big data. For this weeks round up, we have selected our most popular pieces for your perusal. TOP

In Memory-Computing providers GridGain are stepping up security across their platform. New security features on their enterprise offering enable granular authorisation, security audit, and full visibility into data point access across the platform. This means GridGain is now fully SOX-compliant, and offers the kind of high-level, sophisticated security required by

Couchbase, a NoSQL solution marketing themselves as “the world’s most complete, most scalable and best performing NoSQL database”, have just announced a $60 million funding round, which almost doubled the amount it received from its investors. The round was lead by Accel Partners and WestSummit Capital. CEO Bob Wiederhold has

Conflict remains one of the most pernicious ills facing the world today. Destruction, instability and related poverty and remain widespread; as the World Bank’s April 2011 report notes, conflict “has become a primary development challenge of our time. One-and-a-half billion people live in areas affected by fragility, conflict, or large-scale, organized

Cloudera, Dell and Intel are collaborating on the creation of dedicated Dell In-Memory Appliances for the Cloudera Enterprise. The appliances will help integrate the hardware and software, with a view to boosting real-time analytics performance. The In-Memory Appliances will be the first in a group of collaborative developments, which will

Several big announcements came out of the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco yesterday, one of the more significant of which was Google’s decision to do away with MapReduce, the system which originally inspired Hadoop. Google apparently stopped relying on MapReduce “years ago”, according to Urs Hölzle, Google’s Senior VP

In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as a “Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed”. It’s a science of algorithms and automation; the algorithms “learn” from the dataset, identifying patterns or classifying trends for instance, and then automates output- whether that’s sorting

Follow @DataconomyMedia So far in the “Understanding Big Data” series, we’ve looked at what “big data” actually means; what the big data landscape looks like; and some of the infrastructural approaches you might look into when you’re taking the first tentative steps away from the data warehouse. In this edition,