Other: Features
Big Data Big Five
This week’s top five from the big data ecosystem delivers funding announcements for machine learning company, Opera Solutions and cloud database company, Clustrix; Cloudera released their first ever software developer kit, and announced a partnership with machine data company Splunk, and big blue gets big green to do big data. Read more...
Relieving Data Fever with Temperature Driven Data Management
Anyone who has been following the big data space of late knows that in-memory data processing is all the rage right now. Teradata, today, launched their approach to a multi-temperature data management technology called Teradata Intelligent Memory that they claim automates the optimization of in-memory computing.Read more...
Other: News in Brief
Big Data Week Demonstrates Big Energy in Big Data
Big data week took place last month with events happening around the world. From London to LA, meet-ups, conferences, and webinars took place to ask the questions surrounding what is big data, how can it be harnessed, and what is its future. Read more...
Mozart Meets MapReduce
Big data has been around since the beginning of time, says Thomas Paulmichl, founder and CEO of Sigmaspecto, who says that what has changed is how we process the information. In a talk during Big Data Week, Paulmichl encouraged people to open up their perspective on what big data is, and how it can be applied.Read more...
Television Ratings Company Moves on Analytics
As a television ratings measurement company, Rentrak collects a massive amount of granular information on television viewer habits for all 210 of America’s media markets, incorporating information from over 24 million televisions. The company says it's moved on an analytics platform to help manage their discovery.Read more...
Foreman: Don't Forget the "What" and "Why" in Big Data
Data scientist John Foreman, says in big data we've forgotten the "what" and the "why" and jumped straight to the "how." He discusses why the exciting part of any big data project should be the business that's being done, and not necessarily the technology that enables it.Read more...
Cloudera Launches Open Source CDH Developer Kit
On Wednesday Night, Cloudera launched its first-ever developer kit aimed at simplifying common tasks and building applications in their CDH Apache Hadoop distribution.Read more...
Bringing Dark Data to Light
One of the chief challenges of big data, especially where established science and research is concerned, is bringing what is called “dark data” – the data that is hidden in tables and texts of the massive stores of scientific journals – to light. A research team is working on this problem combining several research areas into a potentially powerful tool.Read more...
Other: This Just In
Pankaj Mehra Named Chief Technology Officer for Fusion-io
Fusion-io announced Dr. Pankaj Mehra has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President. Read more...
Harper Reed a Keynote Presenter for FreeStructure
FreeStructure announced Harper Reed as one of the event’s featured keynote presenters.Read more...
