Company has found a way to harness big data to keep oil rigs humming, reports World Oil. 

Diamond Offshore Drilling announced the launch of its Stack-View service, a first-of-its-kind solution that applies 24/7 real-time monitoring, data visualization, and advanced analytics to identify trends and detect anomalies in BOP performance across its rig fleet. 

According to Semi Engineering, the flux in the big data market could have repercussions in the semiconductor industry. 

The big data market is in a state of upheaval as companies begin shifting their data strategies from “nothing” or “everything” in the cloud to a strategic mix, squeezing out middle-market players and changing what gets shared, how that data is used, and how best to secure it

A new move, the Great Hack, tells how big data managed to become the king of Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley has a reputation for being a sexy place to work, even though the day-to-day products of the tech industry are not, by any conventional standards, sexy.