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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...
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...
Cloudera Releases Impala Into the Wild
The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future.Read more...
When Big Data Wakes the Sleeping Giant
Hydro Ottawa entered the arena of big data a little bit naively, admitted Norm Fraser, Chief Operating Officer for the utility that supplies Ottawa with electricity. Fraser discussed how his company's move towards big data changed the nature of their relationship with their customers, and woke a sleeping giant.Read more...
This Week in Research
In this week’s edition, we look at research around Hadoop replication in virtual environments, big data architecture in the arena of semantics, work being done on organizing research being done in cancer research, and Blue, a unified programming model for the cloud. The future is now – it’s This Week in Research…Read more...
Pivotal Launches With $105m Investment From GE
Startup company, Pivotal, announced today that they will be receiving a strategic investment from GE along the lines of $105 million dollars, representing a 10% equity stake in the company that was spun out of EMC to challenge the existing cloud software establishment.Read more...
Giving Big Data a Sporting Chance
With new information collection techniques adding millions of rows of statistics to the virtual box score, improving a sports team is rapidly becoming a big data problem. A panel led by Jason Bailey, HP Vertica Senior Market Manager, discussed the current and future place of big data in solving the problems of the sporting world.Read more...
Facing the Challenges of a Parallel Future
Big data requires big processing, but can our current pace keep up with the processing demands of the future? Perhaps not if we continue the status quo, suggested Andreas Olofsson, CEO of chipmaker, Adapteva, in a keynote at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco this week.Read more...
