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Experienced data scientists are a rare commodity and organisations should snap them up when they find them, according to a person familiar with the field.

The Information Difference is an analyst firm focusing on master data management (MDM). Its Big Data Warehouse Landscape is a listing of big data warehouses and the key players.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has appointed Tony Whigham as ANZ government sales director.

Dark data is unstructured, untagged and untapped data that is found in data repositories and has not been analysed or processed. It is similar to big data, but differs in how it is mostly neglected by business and IT administrators.

Larger organisations are adopting a more experimental approach to analytics, according to Teradata's chief analytics officer.

Woolworths has upgraded and expanded the capacity of its enterprise data warehouse.

The Westpac Bank is using big data and advanced analytics techniques from Teradata to further enhance its engagement with customers, as it continues to develop what it says is the industry leading Marketing CRM program.

Flash storage specialist Pure Storage has appointed Michael Alp as vice president of the company's Asia Pacific and Japan operations.

Big Data is 'crossing the chasm' from technically oriented organisations to mainstream businesses, a Teradata executive told iTWire.

Victorian energy infrastructure company SP AusNet has selected Teradata’s Data Warehouse Appliance and Utilities Logical Data Model as the foundation for a new enterprise data warehouse.

The Open Data Centre Alliance (ODCA) - formed of major end user organisations with a combined annual IT spend of $100 billion plus - which is focussed on the creation of standards for cloud computing and data centres, has turned its attention to big data.

Hitachi Data Systems and Teradata have been listed as one of the 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Several other players in the ICT industry also made the list.

Oracle has hired Mark Hurd, only to be faced with a lawsuit filed by HP in an attempt to stop its former CEO working for a competitor.

Logistics and transport company Star Track Express has selected a Teradata data warehouse.

Smart Alecs who suggest that putting the words business intelligence and Telstra in the same sentence is oxymoronic have been proved wrong, with the telecommunications giant taking out an international gong for its business analytics.

Teradata's push into the smaller end of the data warehousing market, and its more aggressive pricing policy, has effectively sliced $400,000 from Australian Pharmaceutical Industries' IT budget over the next three years.