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Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made in response to simplistic data reporting; they are made in response to considered and ongoing data analysis. Read more »

Enterprise search faces renewed interest as organizations collect and store more data and seek effective ways to extract insights from it. Read more »

We recently hosted our first GigaOM Structure event in Europe, as well as a corresponding Mapping Session to sketch out the trends in the market for big data analytics in Europe. Read more »

Lessons learned by the Helix Nebula team will be of wider relevance as Europe's cloud activities ramp up to create a projected 3.8 million jobs by 2020. Read more »

Shared metrics will enable the emergence of a utility market for computing resources that will benefit both providers and consumers of computing power. Read more »

It's early days for data markets, and technology kinks and business models must be better understood in this space. Read more »

Careful planning and tools optimized for the management of large clusters will prove the difference between a successful Hadoop deployment and failure. Read more »

Cloud computing and a lack of legacy baggage could eventually give developing countries the upper hand. Read more »

Mobile has brought the cloud discussion to the forefront, regardless of whether the implementation actually relies on the cloud. Read more »

Do startups offering single solutions stand a chance against the likes of Oracle, HP and IBM? Read more »