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  Big Data is a big but young market

  A recent survey by Forrester found that 7 per cent of IT executives and 9 per cent of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from Big Data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.

  By Brandon Butler | 13 May, 2013 20:56

  Tags: Interop, Configuration / maintenance, applications, hardware systems, data mining, big data, Data Center, cloud computing, internet, big data visualization, Interop 2013, Cloud, big data analytics, software

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  Big data projects a focus for Australian mid-market: IDC

  Big data is not only widely used by large enterprises in Australia as the mid-market is also taking advantage of it to make decisions faster, according to new research from IDC Australia.

  By Hamish Barwick | 18 April, 2013 11:17

  Tags: IDC, Shayum Rahim, IDC Australia, big data analytics, big data

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  Best IT resolutions for 2013

  It's that time of year when IT executives' thoughts turn to setting resolutions for the new year. We've talked to CIOs, IT analysts and other industry experts about the major trends for 2013 to come up with our own list of suggested IT resolutions.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 02 January, 2013 12:04

  Tags: MDM, SaaS, outlook 2013, Networking, wireless, tech resolutions, Software as a service, cloud computing, CIO, internet, OpenStack, BYOD, Cloud, big data analytics

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  Amazon launches cloud database with analytics tools, lowers S3 pricing

  At its first user conference, called AWS re: Invent, Amazon Web Services today launched its newest cloud-based service, called Redshift. Meant to be a petabyte-scale data warehouse, AWS officials say Redshift allows businesses to drop their data warehousing costs by 10 times compared to on-premise systems.

  By Brandon Butler | 28 November, 2012 23:04

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, Amazon conference, AWS re: Invent, Elastic MapReduce, big data analytics, cloud computing, internet, Oracle, Amazon Cloud, Gartner, Amazon big data, Cloud

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