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February 14, 2013
The Nimbus Ninety Market Trends Report 2013 - Released now

Read the Nimbus Ninety Market Trends Report 2013 - exploring the issue of convergence in business technologies

 

Nimbus Ninety, a group of professional business technology end-user communities,  reveals that organisations will use an average of 5.8 separate technologies to achieve each of their strategic objectives in 2013.

November 22, 2012
Finance InFocus

Written by Big Data Insight Group on behalf of SAS and EMC Greenplum, Finance InFocus is a report examining the application of big data within the finance industry.

Big Data Insight Group is pleased to announce that Finance InFocus, a report produced on behalf of SAS and EMC, examining the application of big data within the finance industry, is now available to download free here.

November 16, 2012
Monster deal for Splunk

Leading jobs vacancies website takes out operational intelligence software to keep its data in check, real-time.

Leading recruitment website Monster.com has implemented an operational intelligence solution from the software company Splunk in a bid to take a firmer grip on its security monitoring and compliance efforts.

May 13, 2013
The art of data visualisation - James Eiloart, Tableau Software

James Eiloart, Vice President EMEA, Tableau Software talks about the opportunities and challenges presented by big data and offers insight into why visualisation tools, such as Tableau, are so important in turning big data into insight and value for your organisation.

James Eiloart, Vice President EMEA, Tableau Software talks about the opportunities and challenges presented by big data and offers insight into why visualisation tools, such as Tableau, are so important in turning big data into insight and value for your organisation.

March 25, 2013
Big data in the Big Apple

Michael Flowers, head of New York City’s Office of Strategic Planning, has revealed how the city is reaping the benefits of big data.

March 21, 2013
Silicon Milkroundabout to launch as its own start-up

The leading job fair that has helped recruit countless skilled employees for London's Tech City booming start-up companies is now to become a start-up itself to further its work.

Silicon Milkroundabout, an up until now industry-led jobs fair for London’s ‘Tech City’ companies, has announced today that it is launching as a start-up company itself due to the ever-increasing recruitment demands in the area.

March 19, 2013
Nimbus Ninety appears in Biztech report

The editor of Nimbus Ninety, parent company to Big Data Insight Group, has featured in the business technology supplement of The Daily Telegraph.

Nimbus Ninety – parent company to The Cloud Circle, Big Data Insight Group, Obis Omni and Business Leadership Exchange – appeared in The Daily Telegraph’s Business Technology supplement today (19 March).

March 14, 2013
Extracting big value from big data

Watch a video of the presentation by Anthony Saxby of Microsoft from the Nimbus Ninety Converge event which looked at how to extract big value from big data.

March 6, 2013
MOT for data centres

A new certification programme providing independent and affordable audits of data centres around the world has been launched.

A new certification programme has been launched by the Data Centre Alliance (DCA) to act as a worldwide ‘MOT’ service for data centres.

March 5, 2013
A futurist's look ahead

The keynote presentation by David Rowan, award-winning editor of Wired UK magazine, at the Nimbus Ninety Converge event.

March 5, 2013
The future impact of social networking

A video of the presentation by Georg Ell of Yammer from the Nimbus Ninety Converge event which looked at the future impact of social networking on businesses.

March 1, 2013
Big Data Notes 013: Data dictionary

Attempting to define the term data dictionary could conjure up imagery of a dog chasing its tail. Nevertheless, when it comes to understanding and analysing your data, the data dictionary plays a key role. Big Data Notes explains more.

Photo credit: Flickr / Horia Varlan

 

Right, give it to me in a nutshell.


Helpfully, IBM’s ‘Dictionary of Computing’ sums it up quite nicely. It defines a data dictionary as ‘a centralised repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format’.

February 28, 2013
Big data to transform out of home advertising

A new database of 160 million records about people's journey patterns and interaction with advertising looks set to transform out of home advertising in the UK.

February 27, 2013
Our pick of some of 2013's new apps

As we move further into 2013, the time has come to check out some the year’s new offerings in terms of exciting new apps. We pick our top four making the rounds of the news at the moment.  

 

February 20, 2013
AWS prepares assault on big data market

Amazon is ramping up its big data products and services as it moves to become a major player in the big data space.

February 13, 2013
Deutsche bank and HRMC struggle with Hadoop technology

Cloudera roundtable reveals leading public and private organisations are struggling with legacy systems.

A Cloudera roundtable discussion held this week found that Deutsche Bank and HRMC are both struggling to move data from legacy systems on to large data systems based on Hadoop technology.

February 6, 2013
Video interview: Georg Ell, Yammer

Ahead of his speaking slot at the Nimbus Ninety Converge event on February 13, Georg Ell - general manager EMEA, Yammer - provides insight into collaborative working practices and the latest trends in emerging, disruptive business technologies.

Enterprise social networking company Yammer is one of the world's biggest start-up success stories of recent years. Founded just four years ago, the company was last year acquired by Microsoft for $1.2bn.

Georg Ell, general manager EMEA, will be speaking at our Converge event at the Science Museum on February 13. He takes a few moments out of his day to speak to us about Yammer and the uses of social networking in business, as well as giving us his unique insights into the latest developments in technology and his predictions for change in 2013.

January 28, 2013
Glasgow wins £24m to become UK’s first “smart city”

The city of Glasgow is to become one of the UK’s first ‘smart cities’, having won a government grant of £24m to investment in its infrastructure and technology services.

January 28, 2013
Innovative big data firm launches State-side

Last week marked the launch of big data firm Ayasdi, a Silicon Valley-based outfit that is making ground-breaking developments in the field of data analysis and visualisation through its use of topology.

The company has pioneered the use of algebraic topology – its Insight Discovery Platform – to yield insights out of blind analyses of large and unstructured amounts of data. Whereas previous research methods have necessitated predetermined questions to source answers from complex databases, the use of topology means that data scientists can uncover ‘invisible’ insight.

January 23, 2013
Twitter sentiment on big data revealed

DataSift says Tweets about big data are positive on a ratio of 3:1.

 

January 11, 2013
HP announces partner big data training

Firm to offer vocational and exam-based certifications on its Vertica Analytics Platform.

 

January 11, 2013
Original Hadoop developer joins WANdisco

Konstantin Boudnik joins software versioning company WANDisco, which is dual based in Sheffield, UK and California, US.

 

January 8, 2013
Governments set to bank on big data in 2013

Vice-President of Splunk foresees increase of government investment in big data in 2013.

January 3, 2013
A happy (and disruptive) New Year from all at Nimbus Ninety

We keep business and IT professionals up-to-date with the latest developments in business enabling technologies. Find out what we’ve got in store for the year ahead and how you can become a member of our communities for free.

 

 

December 19, 2012
Ten uses of big data

Big data has many uses to many people. If you're still unsure just how big data could be of benefit to your organisation then Mark Young has outlined 10 of the best ways to put it to use.

 

The world is abuzz with big data. After all there are limitless things you can do with it. But although some people are already maturing with these practical applications, others tell us they are still struggling to join the dots.

Here are 10 things you can do with big data. If you would like to send me 10 of your own (or any number, in fact), I will be happy to publish them, or add them as an addendum to this list.