We will continue to bet on an open, integrated, and highly flexible big data platform.
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Flurry, established in 2005, is venture-funded and doubtless headed-for-IPO and offers the big data platform upstream that gives apps their smarts.
The Watson system developed by IBM Research is a key innovation in this space, and over a hundred partners have adopted its Big Data platform already.
By launching a big data cloud hosting platform alongside its marketplace, Infochimps is seeking to build on the importance of data locality.
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New applications on a platform designed for big data mean that firms can achieve results without employing armies of technologists.
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Infochimps opened for business in 2009 as a data marketplace but earlier this year it started to sell what it had developed for its own use, a platform for doing big data.
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From embedded Java on devices, up to Oracle engineered systems in the data center and Big Data analytical tools, Oracle provides a practical device-to-data center platform that makes it easy for organizations to collect, store, manage, and efficiently analyze data collected via connected devices.
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Today, Apigee announced the launch Apigee Insights, a platform for capturing and operationalizing signals gathered from big data, contextual data, and interactions intermediated by APIs. (Apigee has published an e-book explaining the platform.) But the core vision of the product is based on an advanced pattern for big data value creation that will be applicable to many industries.
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From a big data and life sciences standpoint, the issue of which device and analytics platform will win the marketing war is interesting.
All of the big players, and even some not so big players, are battling it out to become the universal, centralized data platform.
These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity.
Story 2 is a fresh view on a topic like Big Data and will be more interesting to a generalaudience- probably doing well on a platform like Forbes or Mashable.
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Oracle recently made a lot of interesting announcements at the OpenWorld conference, including the launch of its cloud platform, Oracle Public Cloud, and the launch of its new Big Data and NoSQL offerings.
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Using big data in heatlhcare is the direction things are going and you have Cleveland Clinic with their Hadoop platform as well.
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