Academia: Features
This Week in Research
In this week’s dive into deep waters of big data and big compute research, we look at some interesting cloud applications, including rebalancing algorithm aimed at distributed file systems, as well as a new implementation of MapReduce that is said to work across geographically distributed datacenters. We look at some of the research happening at Facebook as they look at alternatives to their 4-post architecture, as well as in-storage processing on SSDs.Read more...
Academia: News in Brief
Raising a Pack of Data Scientists
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, by the year 2018 there will exist 190,000 unfilled data scientist positions. North Carolina State University is one of the educational institutions looking to assemble a curriculum and a program that helps fill those jobs. Read more...
Academia: This Just In
Terapeak Wins SIIA Software CODiE Big Data Award
Terapeak announced that Terapeak, its flagship product, won the SIIA CODiE Award for Best Big Data Solution.Read more...
SDSC Hosts First Annual Industry Partners Research Review
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego will host its first annual research review for current and prospective industrial partners and affiliates as part of a broader strategy to foster increased collaborations that may benefit from the center’s extensive research capabilities.Read more...
Internet2 and Networking Partners Develop SDN, OpenFlow Applications
Juniper Networks, Ciena, Brocade and Internet2 announced the Call for Proposals for the 2013 Innovative Application Awards program.Read more...
Big Data and Connected CE Focus of CONNECTIONS at CTIA
Parks Associates announced the research firm will host two special analyst sessions at CONNECTIONS on May 21 and 22, "Big Data and Analytics" and "The Changing Connected CE Environment."Read more...
MapR to Speak at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, CloudCon Expo, and Big Data Boot Camp
MapR Technologies, Inc. announced that Chief Marketing Officer Jack Norris will speak about Big Data management and Hadoop at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium and Big Data Boot Camp; and Tomer Shiran, vice president of product management, will speak at CloudCon Expo & Conference.Read more...
FOSE 2013 Announces Big Data and Business Intelligence Track
FOSE 2013 will emphasize the growing impact of big data in government by offering a new track dedicated to big data and business intelligence. These sessions will examine the tools and technologies being used to analyze massive sets of data while highlighting management and policy challenges that come up in the process.Read more...
Smart Grid Analytics ROI to Exceed $121.8 Billion Globally by 2020
Business analytics company SAS is ranked No. 1 for smart grid analytics and data management/movement in the recently released utility industry report, The Soft Grid 2013-2020: Big Data & Utility Analytics for the Smart Grid, by GTM Research.Read more...
Gartner: CIOs to Manage Technology and Business Innovation to Gain Big Data Advantage
CIOs must realize that innovation needs to go well beyond the technology used to manage big data, according to Gartner, Inc.Read more...
