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A Data Scientist’s Guide to Saving Time

To celebrate and showcase the work of the data science community, Z by HP recently released “Unlocked,” an interactive 35-minute film that weaves data science challenges into an action-packed story. In the film, Dr Read more…

Solar Data Analytics Approaches Warp Speed

Data scientists at NASA are employing GPU-powered workstations and local storage to greatly accelerate analysis of images captured by the Solar Dynamic Observatory. Launched in 2010 to probe our yellow dwarf star and Read more…

Tape Storage Spec Jumps to 15TB

Data storage licensing specifications released this week by a consortium of technology companies would boost tape storage capacity for archival and other long-term storage to as much as 15 terabytes. The LTO (Linear T Read more…

HP Spins Out Trafodion to Power Transactional Hadoop

The feasibility of running transactional workloads side by side with analytical workloads on Hadoop got a little clearer this summer when Hewlett-Packard spun out Trafodion, a "webscale SQL-on-Hadoop" solution. The new c Read more…

NASCAR Analytics Races To ‘Younger Crowd’

NASCAR is seeking to engage with racing enthusiasts via a new analytics platform that seeks to leverage, among other things, unstructured text data collected directly from NASCAR fans. The motor racing organization be Read more…

Ford, HP Analyze Commuting Patterns

American drivers logged a record number of miles in April, Reuters reported this week, citing U.S. government data showing that an increase in road travel over the last year is continuing. The U.S. Federal Highway Adm Read more…

IBM Sends Big Data to the Front Lines

IBM is throwing a “Big Data Event” on April 30, and the effort to promote it is already in full force. The company has taken a special interest in big data over the last couple of years, summarizing their efforts in a video on next week’s event. 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…

HP Vertica Showcased at Bloomberg Conference

HP has been making a lot of noise in the big data space, especially with their Vertica platform and this week’s launch of HP Moonshot. As such, Colin Mahoney, General Manager of HP Vertica, participated in the Bloomberg Big Data Conference in Washington D.C., where he discussed how Vertica has revamped HP. Read more…

Facebook Pushes Open Hardware Drive

Facebook's push into open hardware is going so well that they're preparing to open a 290,00-square-foot data center in Sweden stocked entirely with open sourced servers. Read more…

HP Diving Deeper into R Parallelization

Despite R’s popularity as a statistical tool, its single-threaded nature might be a short-coming in scaling its use as a tool for big data applications. Not if they can help it, says HP. Read more…

HP Shapes Strategy Around Big Efficient Data

HP hopes to facilitate a more sustainable big data analytics environment with the release of their ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 server. According to Bounds and Jimmy Daley, HP’s Director of Smart Storage, Industry Standard Servers and Software... Read more…

Adding Autonomy to Personalized Medicine

Autonomy has managed to attract some top talent to talk big data in healthcare, including Dr. Alan Stein, VP of Health Technologies. Stein recently delivered a TED talk at Fogelsom Auditorium in a Dallas hospital to talk about the cost-cutting benefits to better employing big data analytics... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

Our top seven this week will look at how CSC is tapping big government data, will dive into the “Data Oasis” for big data and supercomputing, and look at new enhancements for those leveraging the R statistical language. We also have some news from HP and IBM and Oracle as they firm up their positions on big data.... Read more…

Why Big Data Means Reinventing Invention

In the wake of today's news of massive layoffs at HP and dismal returns on expectations at other mainstream IT giants, including Dell, it seemed fitting to look at the ways the needs of businesses and consumers are shifting from the era of the machine to that of the data-driven... Read more…

HP Storage Lead Drills Down Trends

If you ask Mike Prieto, who heads up APAC storage at HP, what IT trends are the most dominant this year, two of his three answers probably won’t surprise you (here’s a hint, ‘big data’ is one) but one might raise a few eyebrows. According to.... Read more…

HP Breathes New Life into Real-Time Platform

HP made waves last year with its sky high bid and win on real-time analytics platform vendor, Vertica. In an effort to bring the platform up to date, the development team announced a series of enhancements to bring a new level of aesthetic.... Read more…

Is Boston the Next Bastion for Big Data?

A recent report from the Mass Technology Leadership Council cited a number of examples of big data and analytics companies that are thriving in the Bay State and offered a few insights about why Boston and big data might go hand in hand... Read more…

HP Leverages Acquisitions, Firms Up Big Data Approach

Today HP made a number of key announcements relevant to their big data strategy. These new additions to their enterprise approach take advantage of technology gleaned from recent buys, including Vertica and Autonomy. Read more…

HP Pilot Analytics Project Looks Inward

A pilot project at HP that combines structured and unstructured data seeks to connect the dots for customers between social media and internal data. The company used this method to track its own operations--with a reported 90% success rate. Read more…

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