Rolls Royce, the engine manufacturer and not the car manufacture, takes big data to a higher gear with their Rolls-Royce Engine Health Monitoring Unit. All engines of Rolls Royce, be it for aircrafts, helicopters or ships, are equipped with sensors that collect data from different components, systems or sub-systems within the engines. This information is analysed by algorithms … [Read more...] about Rolls Royce Shifts In Higher Gear With Big Data
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Trifacta Develops A Productivity Big Data Analytics Platform
Company Trifacta Address 290 King St Suite 10 San Francisco, CA, 94107 USA Founders Joe Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer & Sean Kandel Founded January 2012 Funding $ 4.3 million Employees 3 Website www.Trifacta.com Rating 7 bits  Trifacta tries to solve the biggest problem of big data that awaits us in the coming years: the shortage of big data scientists and big … [Read more...] about Trifacta Develops A Productivity Big Data Analytics Platform
Big Data Ownership – Who Owns Your Data?
The digital universe is expanding at a rate of 1 exabyte per day (that is the equivalent of 250 million DVDs!) and we are all responsible for this growth. Apart from the data that is not made publicly available, every day we like, we tweet, we comment, we share, we blog and we publish information on the web. We do this via our smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer and quite … [Read more...] about Big Data Ownership – Who Owns Your Data?
Big Data Startup DataGravity Is Into Intelligent Storage
Company DataGravity Address 10 Tara Blvd, Suite 400 Nashua, NH 03062, USA Founders Paula Long & John Joseph Founded 2012 Funding $ 42 million Employees 30 Website www.DataGravity.com Rating Rating not yet possible  DataGravity is a new emerging company founded by EqualLogic founder Paula Long together with John Joseph. In 2012 they received a total of $ 42 … [Read more...] about Big Data Startup DataGravity Is Into Intelligent Storage
TomTom Takes Big Data To the Extreme
TomTom is a Dutch manufacturer of automotive navigation systems that was founded in 1991. Apart from stand-alone units for cars they develop also mobile navigation apps as well as business solutions. On June 11, 2012, at a product launch of iOS 6 it was announced that TomTom would be the main mapping provider for Apples new Maps App. Their revenue in 2011 was over $ 1.2 billion … [Read more...] about TomTom Takes Big Data To the Extreme
