The Big Data Innovation Center is equipped with advanced analytic infrastructure and software – to speed solutions development for Big Data market in Asia.
The changing marketplace is encouraging enterprises to harness the promise of Big Data and associated tools such as predictive analytics. Click to view enlarged view of the details.
The new Big Data Innovation Center is a collaborative effort by Dell, Intel and Revolution Analytics and is located in the Dell Solutions Center in Singapore.
The center brings together expertise across all three organisations to provide extensive training programs, proof-of-concept capabilities and solution development support on big data and predictive analytic innovations for Asia market.
In a world where analytics, big data and cloud are converging, the need to manage, monitor and predict business outcomes and market readiness is also changing.
The prevalence of tablets, smart phones and social media also increase the urgency to mine intelligence from the tons of raw data
This is in turn prodding more companies and governments to beef up their big data plans.
Industry analyst firm International Data Corp (IDC) projects the global big data technology and services market to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.7 percent with revenues reaching US$23.8 billion by 2016.
This growth is about seven times the rate of the overall information and communications technology (ICT) market.
IDC expects big data spending in the Asia-Pacific excluding Japan to reach US$603 million in 2013, up 42.6 percent over 2012.
The Big Data Innovation Center will be housed at the Dell Solution Center (DSC) in Singapore, where training will be done on a big data stack that includes Dell infrastructure using latest Intel® Xeon® E5 processor-based servers, Intel 10GbE networking and Intel Solid State Drives with Cache Acceleration Software, the Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop* Software and Revolution Analytics Enterprise R predictive analytics software.
Revolution Analytics will also use the center to provide a state-of-the-art big data analytics platform to train professionals to become data scientists.
The launch of the Big Data Innovation Center provides the platform for companies to test-run big data initiatives and proof-of-concepts for deployment.
It will also see the commencement of training where participants will be equipped with the necessary skills to improve the quality of data mining across a wider range of platforms from a larger pool of sources.
Apart from the regular training courses, candidates can also attend seminars, workshops and events hosted at the Dell Solution Center.
Revolution Analytics is a leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing.
Led by analytics consulting veteran Dave Rich, the company brings high performance, productivity, and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world.
The company’s flagship Revolution R Enterprise software is designed to meet the production needs of large organizations in industries such as finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing, and media.
Used by over 2 million data scientists in academia and at cutting-edge companies such as Google, Bank of America, and Acxiom, R has emerged as the standard of innovation in statistical analysis.
The speed of business is another big impetus for companies to leverage Big Data analytics.
Revolution Analytics is committed to fostering the continued growth of the R community, sponsors R user groups and conferences worldwide, and offers free licenses of Revolution R Enterprise to everyone in academia.
Tags: analytics, Big Data, DELL, Hadoop, Intel, Revolution Analytics, Singapore