Big Data Career Notes: November 2018 Edition
Are You Prepared for the 5G Data Crush?
AI Needs To Be Easier, But How?
The Evolution of Remote Sensing: Delivering on the Promi...
Big Data Career Notes: November 2018 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Read more…
Are You Prepared for the 5G Data Crush?
The introduction of fifth generation wireless technology in 2019 and 2020 will provide a big speed boost to mobile networks, on the order of 100x or more. Read more…
AI Needs To Be Easier, But How?
Companies today are scrambling to take advantage of the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence technologies, such as deep learning. Read more…
The Evolution of Remote Sensing: Delivering on the Promise of IoT
Remote sensing technology has come a long way since Gaspard Felix Tournachon’s pioneering aerial photographs in 1858. Read more…
Datanami Headlines
Databricks, Talend Expand Cloud Access to Spark
Databricks and Talend, the cloud data integration vendor, are joining forces to help data jockeys scale their integration efforts using the Apache Spark analytics engine hosted on Talend’s cloud.
Databricks, the creators of Apache Spark, and Talend (NASDAQ: Read more…
Intel Aims to Simplify AI with ‘Neural Stick’ Update
Intel today unveiled an upgraded Neural Compute Stick that it claims will dramatically simplify the roll-out of neural network inference applications in drones, IoT, and edge devices.
It may look like a standard USB thumb drive, but the Neural Computer Stick 2 (NCS2) that Intel unveiled today at its AI conference in Beijing is much more than that. Read more…
Cloud Data Warehouse Gets New Analytics Interface
Analytics interface vendors continue to offer easy-to-use tools designed to allow more business users to query data, especially data increasingly stored in a growing number of cloud data warehouses. Among the goals is simplifying business intelligence to accelerate access to cloud data. Read more…
Deep Learning Taking Over HPC, But It’s Good for Business Too
Be prepared for a heavy dose of deep learning if you’re on the floor of the Supercomputing 2018 show this week in Dallas, Texas, where the scientific community will demonstrate how neural network-powered AI applications are bolstering research in areas like climatology, geology, genomics, and even particle physics. Read more…
Red Hat Adds Kafka Streaming to OpenShift
Red Hat is adding data streaming capability to its OpenShift container platform with the addition of a distribution based on Apache Kafka.
AMQ Streams is described as a high-end data streaming tool built on Kafka stream processing. Read more…
Google Ups its AI Game
Google Cloud is rolling out an “AI Hub” supplying machine learning content ranging from data pipelines and TensorFlow modules. It also announced a new pipeline component for the Google-backed Kubeflow open-source project, the machine learning stack built on Kubernetes that among other things packages machine learning code for reuse. Read more…
What’s Driving the Cloud Data Warehouse Explosion?
The advent of powerful data warehouses in the cloud is changing the face of big data analytics, as companies move their workloads into the cloud. According to analysts and cloud executives, the phenomenon is accelerating, thanks largely to the potential to save large sums of money, analyze even bigger data sets, and eliminate the hassle of managing on-premise clusters. Read more…
Talend Buys Stitch for $60M
Stitch, a provider of integration services for loading cloud data warehouses, was snapped up by ETL software developer Talend today in a $60 million deal.
Stitch is a relatively small firm that was spun out of RJMetrics when that firm was acquired by Magento in 2017. Read more…
MapR Targets Cloudera-Hortonworks Customers with ‘Clarity’ Release
MapR Technologies went on the offensive today against its Hadoop rivals Hortonworks and Cloudera with the launch of a “Clarity” release of its MapR Converged Data Platform, as well as a new offer for a free big data assessment from its professional services team. Read more…
Will GraphQL Become a Standard for the New Data Economy?
Don’t look now but a new language called GraphQL is emerging that could radically simplify how developers use APIs to get data into applications, and potentially provide a graph-like alternative to procedural REST. The company behind the open source software, Apollo, today announced the GraphQL Platform to standardize access to the new technology. Read more…
MemSQL Giving Away Database for Four-Node Clusters
Everybody likes free stuff. Today MemSQL announced that it’s getting into the free software market by giving away copies of its distributed relational database management system for clusters up to four nodes and 128GB of RAM. Read more…
How AI, IoT, and Other Technologies Will Need to Coalesce into Comprehensive Counterdrone Defenses
Drones are the foundation of some of the most devastating weapon systems in many countries’ arsenals. They are also a growing focus of smart cities everywhere. Indeed, drone-related projects are likely to claim a significant portion of the projected $135 billion annually that public agencies worldwide will invest in smart cities by 2021, according to International Data Corporation estimates. Read more…
AI Partners Shift Driverless Cars into High Gear
AI investments and deployment for driverless vehicles are speeding up, with another auto manufacturer partnering with a computer vision startup and an autonomous vehicle specialist deploying Nvidia’s Xavier platform.
Korean car maker Hyundai (OTCMKTS: Read more…
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