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Three UK uses big data to direct network investments

Big data project started in 2009 starts to bear fruit - helping to site new mobile phone masts
20 Mar 2013

Spend less on big data collection and more on effective interpretation, says Autonomy

Stop 'pouring money into buying hardware' says Brierton
20 Mar 2013

Big Data is more than just the datacentre, says Intel

The datacentre, the data architecture, data processing and managing data all have a part to play
20 Mar 2013

Be wary of companies rebranding to offer ‘big data solutions’, says FT CIO

Christina Scott is a 'partial cynic' when it comes to big data because of vendors' attempts to trick customers
20 Mar 2013

Big Data will be a game changer in fighting diseases, says AstraZeneca

Chip-on-a-pill and wearable sensors key to bespoke health care, says CTO Yochem
20 Mar 2013

Big Data Summit: Big data needs a boardroom champion

Research unveiled at today's Big Data Summit suggests a clearer case needs to be made for big data solutions
20 Mar 2013

Follow the Computing Big Data Summit Live

The latest news straight from the second Big Data Summit - hear from the industry's top experts, CIOs and specialists
20 Mar 2013

The evolving world of consumer data: an interview with Clive Humby

One half of the former dunnhumby team tells Computing his views on the consumer data landscape
15 Mar 2013

Analysis: Big data meets marketing automation

By 2017, marketing will be spending more money on IT than the CIO – and the marriage of big data with marketing will be the prime reason
07 Mar 2013

Intel launches own distribution of Apache Hadoop

Chip maker is working with partners including Cisco, Dell and SAP to integrate big data software with new platforms
28 Feb 2013

HMRC trawling social media to find evidence of tax fraud

Openly available web data being fed into HMRC's anti-fraud data warehouse
25 Feb 2013

BBC: big data helps us understand the audience

BBC CTO John Linwood describes how big data helps the broadcaster understand audience sentiment, and hopes this will soon be possible in real-time
25 Feb 2013

First BI-by-the-hour service launched by Jaspersoft

On-demand cloud business intelligence added to Amazon AWS
18 Feb 2013

Interview with Tim Minahan executive VP of network strategy at Ariba

When Ariba met HANA
11 Feb 2013

Finger on the pulse: an interview with Bupa's Yasmin Jetha

Bupa CIO Yasmin Jetha talks to Peter Gothard about private clouds, Agile development, BYOD and the expanding role of the CIO, and explains why you’ll never find a Bupa USB stick abandoned on a train
06 Feb 2013

Infosys: Shortage of big data modellers as well as data scientists

Senior vice president says the firm needs both so its clients can benefit
01 Feb 2013

Action for Children charity selects Rackspace to tackle big data challenges

Stephen Fry tweet could have brought website down due to large spike in traffic
17 Jan 2013

Rumour mill: Splunk to be acquired by IBM?

IBM and Oracle rumoured to be interested in big data software vendor Splunk
14 Jan 2013

Analysis: data scientists – a case of quality versus quantity?

As more organisations seek to exploit big data, so courses designed to teach the requisite data science skills are beginning to spring up. But fears are growing that they might not be attracting the right calibre of candidate
09 Jan 2013

Computing research: taming the data monster

A look at some of the technologies Computing readers are deploying to tackle the enormous demand for storage
09 Jan 2013

Predictive analytics helps firms to get 'about three per cent better at guessing', says APT chief

But that is still worth 'a lot of money', claims Jim Manzi
08 Jan 2013

Big data in 2013

Will the big data bubble burst? John Leonard makes some New Year predictions on this and other issues
02 Jan 2013

Big data: 2012 in review

2012 was the year that big data went from the server room to the board room
17 Dec 2012

Big Google is watching you

Google knows who you are, can track you via your smartphone and knows your most peculiar peccadilloes. But is it still living up to its promise to 'do no evil'?
13 Dec 2012