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Facebook's Corona will make better use of clusters than MapReduce does, the company claims
Code-named Hekaton, Microsoft's in-memory technology will allow an entire database to be run from memory
New edition of the Splunk machine data search engine is designed to eliminate the need for SAN backups
The Redis in-memory data store update adds support for scripting and bit-wise operations
In correlating huge patient and gene data sets, interactive 3D visualization lets researchers accelerate analysis and open up data to broader range of scholars
Cloudera is working on a new database engine, whil MapR improves HBase reliability
SAP saw double-digit revenue growth on strong demand for its newer technologies including HANA, mobile, and cloud
A spokesman cautions that there are no firm plans to make a product out of the technologies discussed
Big data is breathing new life into business intelligence by putting the power of prediction into the hands of everyday decision-makers
IBM has added new capabilities to Hadoop and Cognos, and has started a cloud analysis service as well