The Big Data market is booming as we showed earlier in the Big Data Investment Infographic and also in 2014 this will continue. Jake Flomenberg, a big data industry veteran turned Venture Capitalist, talks about how he views the growing big data market. Jake works with the Accels big data fund, which recently opened their second $ 100 million fund, so he knows what he is … [Read more...] about How Investors See The Big Data Market And Its Investment Opportunities
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How Open Data Portals Will Stimulate Innovation and Economic Growth
Not only organizations are sitting on huge piles of data, also governments are known for creating enormous amounts of data. In fact, they are one of the biggest data-creators in the world and all this (raw) data can be worth a lot of money. McKinsey estimated in 2011 that the potential value of Big Data for the European Sector would be up to 250 billion per year in 2020. Â Most … [Read more...] about How Open Data Portals Will Stimulate Innovation and Economic Growth
A Glimpse into the Data-Centered Future – video
A short video that shows the possibilities of a truly connected world, where sophisticated, predictive analytics will harness the power of data to drive revolutionary new services. Scary? Maybe, Interesting? Definitely! … [Read more...] about A Glimpse into the Data-Centered Future – video
How To Evaluate The ROI On Big Data Projects – Video
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
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
