GigaSpaces provides a commercial alternative that has also won fans among some Web, cloud computing and online gaming firms, as well as financial services and telecom players with very large data analysis problems.
In the past three months the FDA has slapped cautionary labels on sleeping pills and yanked Novartis' constipation drug Zelnorm after that company's analysis showed heart problems.
In the past three months the FDA has slapped cautionary labels on sleeping pills and yanked Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people )' constipation drug Zelnorm after that company's analysis showed heart problems.
This type of study, known as a meta-analysis, can highlight problems that no single study typically can.
The ideal for this sort of analysis and many other problems would be to have both types of information available in one system.
Rather, its optimized for data analysis and pattern recognition problems.
Mike Shedlock of Global Economic Trend Analysis was the first to pick up several problems with the details of the report and his analysis is worth a read.
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But for many other problems, the analysis can be done in memory.
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The analysis of such data poses problems beyond mere volume control.
Spanos also sought investors who could help him solve problems of data analysis, technology, and marketing to a large organization, such as how best to approach, say, Bank of America (BAC).
For example, Monte Carlo analysis is used for solving complex problems where mathematical formulas typically fall short.
That 10-15-year product development cycle john2011 alludes to still poses problems to speedy financial analysis and decision-making of this particular industry.
Also likely in 1999: drives that use predictive failure analysis to warn you of hardware problems that could hasten a crash.
Dr Hand admires the meticulous work of Steve McIntyre, a mining consultant and blogger, who unearthed statistical problems in another climate analysis.
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Bextra, a drug that was similar to Vioxx, was linked to heart problems by one such analysis and has since been pulled from the market for serious skin side effects.
Certainly, there are glitches with Dr Lisi's analysis and some of the truly fundamental problems that plague more conventional work remain.
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The biggest-selling diabetes drug in the world dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks and death from heart problems, according to an analysis by a top cardiologist published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
At the very best, the first hints of these problems came from a re-analysis of data--an unreliable technique--two years after the drug had been on the market.
Now such "distributed processing" is beginning to solve thorny business problems, from complex graphics to risk analysis to design.
When it comes to analysis, enterprises are often faced with two classic problems.
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The need is for multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary teams that can do everything from planning and training, through design and execution, to monitoring and evaluating programs, and can work in the complex overlapping space among all these problems, from the strategic and risk analysis level right down to field execution.
But he also said that this six-month analysis simply doesn't assuage his fears of heart valve problems.
As Dr. Gigerenzer sees it, complex problems do not necessarily need complex solutions, and more detailed analysis does not necessarily improve a decision, but often makes it worse.
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