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Technology Giants May Claim Growing Big Data Market

Some of tech’s biggest giants might ultimately claim the largest share of the emerging multibillion-dollar Big Data market, though they are playing catch-up. Oracle (ORCL), SAP (SAP) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) are scrambling to tackle Big Data and compete with nimble newcomers such as Splunk (SPLK) and Tableau Software (DATA). Big Data in general describes the large volume of data companies are accumulating from multiple sources in the digital age,

Splunk Q3 Will Show Growth, Just Not ‘White-Hot’

Splunk (SPLK) is expected to continue its steady growth, though not what an analyst called its “white-hot growth” of earlier, when it posts third-quarter earnings after the market close Thursday. The company is a rising maker of analytics software, part of the fast-growing Big Data market of software and services that help companies and other enterprises utilize the ever-rising volume of data they are accumulating. Splunk’s software helps