IBM announced that it would be expanding its IBM MobileFirst portfolio with new and enhanced services. MobileFirst will now include services that are focused on mobile strategy, security, application development and device procurement and management. IBM’s vision for MobileFirst began with the ambition to help organisations capture new markets by

Trak.io, a customer analytic service for tracking user interaction with apps, is coming out of beta. Trak.io announced today that it would be receiving a $150k investment from Kima Ventures. Trak.io is primarily targeted at tech startups. It allows companies to monitor and track their customers use of mobile and

We caught up with Jim Sterne at Digital Analytics Day in Hamburg. Jim shared his insights on Big Data and gave his advice for Global Big Data start-ups. Jim is an internationally known speaker and consultant to Fortune 500 companies and Internet entrepreneurs. He was  named one of the 50 most

BioConsortia, an agricultural biotechnology company that uses a proprietary Accelerated Microbe Selection (AMS) process to assess the beneficial microbial consortia for crop improvement, will be coming out of stealth mode on Monday. The company, currently headqaurtered in Davis, California, will sell its microbe solution as a treatment for crop seeds

Teradata will be launching a technology called QueryGrid in the third quarter. The new product allows customers to run a single SQL-based query across a range of data stores, from Teradata’s own data warehouses to Hadoop and rival databases. The company will be making product announcements at the Teradata conference

IBM and Skillsoft announced in January that they would be joining forces to build a powerful big data engine. The goal of the collaboration is the development of enhanced adaptive learning experience for users “with a focus on productive data-driven learning outcomes.” The initial results of the work between IBM

Fusion-io recently announced that it would would be collaborating with Oracle on the development of flash-aware interfaces for MySQL. The new interfaces include NVM Compression and Atomic Writes. It is said that both flash-aware interfaces work together to enable MySQL to deliver 4x more flash endurance by “streamlining commands to

Google’s Project Loon, an initiative to provide the world’s most remote places WiFi through a hot air balloon, has just travelled around the globe in 22 days. The flight of the balloon exceeded Mountain View’s expectations on Thursday (the team believed it would take 33 days). The Google balloon, named

How much data is there really? This infographic is great way to understand the magnitude and volume of data we produce. Source (Image Credit: Madeleine Skjelland Eriksen)  

Melanie Mueller, Data Scientist from Harvard University, gives us an overview of her visit to Big Data TechCon conference in Boston. Melanie attended the conference from March 31 to April 2. Big Data practitioners converged on Boston to attend Big Data TechCon , a Big Data training conference organized by