There are more than two billion video game players in the world, and Electronic Arts, who has 275 million active users, generates approximately 50 terabytes of data each day. The gaming industry does $ 20 billion in annual revenue in America alone of which 2 billion in sub-category social games. In the USA, the gaming industry is bigger than the movie industry (with an annual … [Read more...] about The Gaming Industry Turns To Big Data To Improve The Gaming Experience
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Cloudera CEO Mike Olson Discusses the Big Changes of Big Data
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson discusses the trend for more analytics and deeper insight based on big data, which is more available now than ever before. How is it going to affect society and organisations and how should big data be applied to take care of feeding another 2 billion people on the planet in the coming decades. … [Read more...] about Cloudera CEO Mike Olson Discusses the Big Changes of Big Data
How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
Gartners definition of big data dates back from 2001, when Doug Laney the 7 Vs) that are important for organizations to take into account when developing a big data strategy. However, the original definition of big data suggests that organisations can only develop a big data strategy if they have vast volumes, terabytes or more, of data. IDC even defines big data projects as … [Read more...] about How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
Want To Get Ahead Of The Competition? Put Big Data Analytics At The Heart Of Your Corporate Strategy
Jessops (photographic retailing), JJB Sports (British Sports retailer), Comet Group (Electrical retail chain), Habitat (retailer of household furniture) and Borders (international book and music retailer) have all recently entered into administration. Perhaps the one commonality is that they failed to remain tuned to their environment and changing customer requirements, so … [Read more...] about Want To Get Ahead Of The Competition? Put Big Data Analytics At The Heart Of Your Corporate Strategy
ParStream Is A Real-Time Big Data Analytics Platform
Company ParStream Address 275 Shoreline Drive Redwood City, CA 94065, USA Founders Michael Hummel, Jrg Bienert & Norbert Heuer Founded 2008 Funding $ 5.6 million Employees 40 Website www.ParStream.com Rating 8 bits ParStream is a big data analytics platform that is capable of delivering sub-second response time on terabytes of data. Launched in 2008 in … [Read more...] about ParStream Is A Real-Time Big Data Analytics Platform
