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IBM buys Vivisimo for Big Data analysis

IBM bought search vendor Vivisimo, purportedly to help analyze and make sense of Big Data, but questions remain about how appropriate it is for this purpose, and how well it will integrate with IBM tools.

There's an awful lot of data in the enterprise

Like the old song that goes, 'There's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil,' it turns out there is an awful lot of data in the enterprise and on the web, and it's growing all the time. And figuring out

AP uses MarkLogic to generate custom archive products

The Associated Press has been around since 1845 covering events of the day from around the world. While it isn't always seen as a forward-thinking, modern news organization, this week it announced

The coming data ownership wars

Last week, New York Times blogger Nick Bilton --reacting to the massive infusion of money from the Facebook IPO-- asked Mark Zuckerberg for his cut , which he worked out to be around $50. While Bilton

Big Data and smart content: New challenges for content management applications

Guest post by Eric Barroca Content is getting bigger--way bigger--and this is scary to many technologists. At the same time, it's also getting smarter, bringing more complexity and sophistication to

The great Big-Data scare of 2012

It's coming and it's big. I mean really, really big. It's so big you should be afraid, very afraid because your database can't handle it. It's the attack of "Big Data" and it's coming soon to an

MarkLogic releases MarkLogic 5

MarkLogic (ML) announced the latest version of its database search and analysis tool, MarkLogic 5, this week. While many players including ML are fond of tossing around the term big data, ML has in

Attivio tries to solve data overload with Active Intelligence Engine 3.0

As I wrote in this week's Editor's Corner , vendors are increasingly looking for ways to help companies deal with ever-growing amounts of data. To that end, Attivio released Active Intelligence Engine

Oracle buys enterprise search vendor Endeca

Oracle ( NASDAQ: ORCL ) plucked enterprise search vendor Endeca off the market last week, grabbing another independent search player. HP ( NYSE: HPQ ) picked up Autonomy, a company that does a number of

IBM grabs another analytics company in i2

IBM ( NYSE: IBM ) bought another analytics company last week, purchasing i2, a British company that is based in Cambridge, the same town as Autonomy . Must be a good week for large American technology