big data academy

“Leveraging big data is a must, there are still a lot of questions of ‘how’.” – Interview with SoftLayer’s Justin Halsall
Justin works as a Tech Evangelist at SoftLayer. SoftLayer, an IBM Company, provides cloud infrastructure as a service from a growing number of data centers and network points of presence around the world. Customers range from Web startups to global enterprises. Products and services include bare metal and virtual servers, networking,

IBM: Using Big Data to Help Farmers
IBM announced on Thursday that it would be collaborating with The Flint River Partnership to deploy a data-driven method to increase “agricultural efficiency by up to 20 percent.” The goal of the partnership is to use big data tools to analyse large volumes of meteorological, geographical and historical data, which

Malaysia Striding Towards Data Hub Status
Malaysia is entering into the competition to be the next hub for big data, up against neighbouring countries like Singapore and South Korea. The Philippines are training 200,000 students, while India is teaching a massive 500,000 students to use R, a big data statistical platform. Where Singapore has invested S$180