Frameworks: Features
Operationalizing Big Data and Making it Small
With data growing exponentially, most organizations aren’t getting full value from their big data implementations, said Radhika Subramanian at the IDC HPC User Forum this week in Tucson, Arizona, where she explained that automation is the path toward operationalizing big data.Read more...
On Algorithm Wars and Predictive Apps
Predictive apps are going to be one the next major disruptions in technology as enterprises begin to take advantage of the combined power of big data and predictive analytics says Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri. “I call them robot armies, because the algorithms are the things that scour through the data and do all the work,” he said. Let the algorithm wars begin.Read more...
MapR Revs HBase with M7; Plots Search Integration
This week, MapR Technologies announced that their HBase-infused M7 is now being pressed into production, and dispensed details of their integration of search technology with partner, LucidWorks - a project that is currently in beta.Read more...
Frameworks: 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...
Can Big Data Help Predict Tornadoes?
For those of us whose lives orbit the big data world, we hear a lot of hype about the wonders of all this data. Naturally when an event like this week's massive tornado in Oklahoma happens, we are left to wonder if big data has the power to provide more warning, and get more people out of harm’s way before the event strikes.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...
Frameworks: This Just In
Hetzner Online Deploys ADVA 100G Core to Answer Data Growth
ADVA Optical Networking announced today that Hetzner Online has deployed its 100G Core technology throughout its backbone network.Read more...
Crimson Hexagon and MicroTech Bring Social Analytics to Government
Crimson Hexagon announced a new partnership with MicroTech. Through the implementation of Crimson Hexagon’s ForSight platform, MicroTech will provide clients with social data and knowledge management, influencing policy and other key decisions.Read more...




























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