Big Data shows strong growth in Australian businesses: Telsyte
Big Data adoption in Australian businesses is showing strong growth and is set to reach 65 per cent of enterprises by 2018.
Big Data adoption in Australian businesses is showing strong growth and is set to reach 65 per cent of enterprises by 2018.
Big Data requirements and use cases in Australia are consistent with the US, according to MapR.
Australia is far ahead in its understanding of Big Data, according to MapR.
Micro-trends in consume behaviour can be found by listening to social media and influencers, according to Zensar Retail.
MapR, which distributes a commercial software platform based off the Apache Hadoop big data management open source project, has secured a $110 million funding round led by Google.
Big Data software specialist Splunk has extended the power of Hunk beyond Hadoop through streaming resource libraries for NoSQL and other data stores.
Venture capital firms continue to funnel big sums of money to big data startups. Hadoop player Cloudera announced $160 million in new financing, and analytics startup Platfora raised $38 million.
MapR Technologies has expanded its presence in the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of a new office in Melbourne.
MapR Technologies has announced the appointment of Justin Bock as country sales manager for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).
Compuware has unveiled a new solution to optimise Hadoop on Amazon Web Services.
Australian has shown an openness to try certain technologies earlier than other markets, and Cloudera identifies Big Data as one of those early adopter technologies.
Big Data solutions are set to ramp up in the Australian market as businesses discover early use cases, by delving into the swamp of data which is growing by the day.
Analytics software provider, Splunk, has released a new platform which allows anyone to explore, analyse and visualise data in Hadoop.
The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform.
Rackspace launched the Open Cloud Academy today, a training program to teach skills in various open source areas, such as OpenStack, Hadoop and Linux, with a specific focus on Cloud computing.
Innovation Awards is the market-leading awards program for celebrating ecosystem innovation and excellence across the technology sector in Australia.
By Kalyan Madala, CTO, IBM ASEANZK