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IDC Talks Convergence in High Performance Data Analysis
At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’13) this week, convergence is in the air as many discussions are including talk about the merging of traditional high performance technical computing with the rising data tides of the enterprise. Putting data and use cases on display, the analysts at IDC gave their view of this convergence space – and shared their own name for it: High Performance Data Analysis (or HPDA).Read more...
HPC Analysts: Hadoop is a Tall Tree in a Broad Forest
This week, Datnami is in the very interesting city of Leipzig, Germany as we attend the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’13) to cover the big data trends at the high performance level. It’s only been a day, but one of the messages from the show floor that has been resonating is that big data is bigger than many people think it is - namely, it’s bigger than just Hadoop.Read more...
Turning Big Data Into Information with High-Performance Analytics
So your organization is coming to grips with big data - what's next? Is the enterprise IT department merely an episode of TV’s “Hoarders” waiting to happen – or will we actually find ways to locate the information of strategic value that is getting buried deeper and deeper in our mountains of data? Quite simply: What are we going to do with all of this data?Read more...
Syncsort Aims to Bridge Hadoop ETL
When Cloudera took to the virtual airwaves last week with a press event proclaiming Hadoop as the center of gravity in the data warehouse, not everyone agreed. While some would say they were overstating Hadoop’s current position, there seems to be little controversy around the idea of Hadoop’s increasing role as a data warehouse offload tool. We spoke with Syncsort's Josh Rogers about this use case, and why it's picking up steam.Read more...
Big Data Big Five
In this week’s BDB5 roundup, we HDFS takes a beating as companies and collaborations look to find ways to work around the maligned file system. We start with Intel who is looking to extend its recently acquired Lustre file system into its own Xeon-based Hadoop distro. Red Hat and Hortonworks get into the game with a collaboration aiming at broadening the file system ecosystem for Hadoop through the Apache Ambari project, and more…Read more...
DataStax Takes Aim at Oracle as Cassandra Summit Kicks Off
Oracle, the poster child for the traditional database, was the target of choice when Apache Cassandra database vendor, DataStax released news dissing the entrenched database giant during the launch of Cassandra Summit this week. According to DataStax, three companies are stepping forward to publicly discuss their respective decisions to augment, and even (partly) scrap their traditional Oracle databases in favor of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database platform.Read more...
Which Came First, Data or Applications?
There has been an ongoing debate in the world for many years: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” In the technology industry, a similar type of debate has been going on for more than 20 years: “Which came first, data or applications?” Eddie Satterly, Chief Big Data Evangelist at Splunk says new technologies are changing the natural order of things.Read more...
Hadoop Sharks Smell Blood; Take Aim at Status Quo
There may be blood is in the water as major Hadoop sharks, Cloudera and MapR, roll out new campaigns and messaging aiming directly at the turf of the traditional database management systems. Does their hype match up with reality? Not everyone thinks so.Read more...
Big Data Big Five
In this week’s Big Data Big Five, Facebook reveals its home rolled answer to SQL on Hadoop that's headed for open source later this year, IBM and 10gen team up for data-intensive mobile apps, Risk analysis company BitSight grabs $24 million, and more…Read more...
The Transformational Role of the CIO in the New Era of Analytics
Computing is still in its infancy, says Keith Collins, CTO for SAS, who believes that analytics and “big compute” are the new paradigm for the foreseeable future. Datanami spoke with Collins about the shift that is underway and what it means for organizations that are experiencing this evolution.Read more...
