Defining the ROI on Big Data projects is not very easy, especially because you are dealing with new techniques and technologies that requires a different way of working. In this video from Pythian they discuss two methods of evaluating the ROI of your big data projects. … [Read more...] about How To Evaluate The ROI On Big Data Projects – Video
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EngineRoom.io Delivers a Full-Service HPC Solution
Company EngineRoom.io Address G11 Graphix Row 160 Bourke Road Alexandria New South Wales 2015 Australia Founders Stefan Gillard Founded March 2011 Funding Self-funded Employees 5 Website www.EngineRoom.io/ Rating 6 bits  With big data comes High-Performance Computing requirements and more organisations will have to move towards an HPC-solution to deal with … [Read more...] about EngineRoom.io Delivers a Full-Service HPC Solution
Cloudant Offers a Distributed Database-as-a-Service Solution
Company Cloudant Address 129 South Street Boston, MA, 02111 USA Founders Adam Kocoloski, Michael Miller & Alan Hoffman Founded May 2008 Funding $ 16.25 million Employees 70 Website www.Cloudant.com/ Rating 8 bits  Cloudant is a data store that offers a distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution to organisations that do require NoSQL databases but … [Read more...] about Cloudant Offers a Distributed Database-as-a-Service Solution
How The Education Industry Should Start Using Big Data
Richard Culatta, Director, Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and Elliott Masie discuss the lack of data in the learning field and implications of big data for the Education Industry and how big data can improve the learning experience. How to personalize learning using big data while at the same time respecting ones privacy. … [Read more...] about How The Education Industry Should Start Using Big Data
How AOL Gets Value From Big Data – Video
AOL Brand Group CEO Susan Lyne discusses the benefits that user data has on their ability to reach a very targeted audience. Currently they are working on providing personalized homepages for visitors to AOL.com based on browser history of the visitor. In addition they combine 3rd party data with their own data and especially on their marketing part of their business to provide … [Read more...] about How AOL Gets Value From Big Data – Video
