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Software Development Strategies for the Age of Data
Being able to unlock the value in big data with the almost unlimited and economical processing power of modern commodity hardware is enough to make both technologists and business leaders drool – if the software pieces of the puzzle can catch up, says Actian CTO, Michael Hoskins. Hoskins says we've entered a wild west phase in the age of data.Read more...
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...
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...
What’s the ROI of Your Degree?
Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business professor Michael Goul shares three of the most marketable data-focused master’s degrees for 2013... Read more...
Can Cloud Bridge the Big Data Talent Gap?
Big Data and cloud are both out pacing the rest of the software industry in growth rate according to recent IDC findings, and according to one analyst, as this trend persists, cloud-enabled big data software may be the tonic to help salve the skills gap that gets talked about so much in the big data arena.Read more...
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...
What Agile Technology Means for the Future of Learning Software
Social, Mobile, Cloud, and Big Data technologies are changing the game as their integration influences changes in our way of life. While the technology changes, learning is changing too. Alan Young explores the future of learning software as the Internet generation known as the Millennials grow up.Read more...
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...
Big Data Big Five
Hadoop distro vendors stole the big headlines this week when Cloudera released Impala, and MapR dropped its M7 edition on the market, but a lot of other worthwhile news took place this week. Please keep your hands inside the cart at all times as we tour through the Big Data Big Five this week.Read more...
