Companies are capturing and digitizing more information than ever before. According to IDC, the world produced one zettabyte (1,000,000,000,000 gigabytes) of data annually. Fueling this data explosion are over five billion mobile phones, 30 billion pieces of content shared on Facebook per month, 20 billion Internet searches per month, and millions of networked sensors connected to mobile phones, energy meters, automobiles, shipping containers, retail packaging and more. Big Data is a…

Big Data, housed in new and disruptive technologies, is expected to account for more than 50 percent of the world’s data in the next five years, according to a a new study. While it offers huge and untapped value, the inevitable result is stress and strain on the world’s Interent infrastructure as companies seek to manage this explosion of information.

The new study, released jointly by Internet Research Group and Infineta Systems a provider of WAN optimization systems, examines how…

Jaspersoft announced a second-generation native connector to MongoDB, an open source database. 10gen, the company behind MongoDB, and Jaspersoft have teamed together to deliver an enhanced tool for companies to provide easier reporting, analytics, and visualization of Big Data. Jaspersoft is a sponsor of the upcoming MongoSV, to be held in Santa Clara CA today, December 9, 2011 and will be showcasing the combined solution there.

Building on the popularity of the first generation…