From Big Guns to Big Data: US Navy Looks to Tech for Adva...
Couchbase to Deliver Parallel JSON Analytics — With...
Big Data Career Notes: September 2018 Edition
Mike Olson on Zoo Animals, Object Stores, and the Future ...
From Big Guns to Big Data: US Navy Looks to Tech for Advantages
For decades, the US Navy’s measure of success was its capability to hit a moving target at sea better than the other guy. Read more…
Couchbase to Deliver Parallel JSON Analytics — Without the ETL
Couchbase yesterday unveiled a JSON-native analytics engine it claims will let users perform parallel ad-hoc analytics on operational data just milliseconds after it’s landed in the NoSQL store. Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: September 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…
Mike Olson on Zoo Animals, Object Stores, and the Future of Cloudera
During last week’s Strata Data Conference, Datanami sat down to talk with Cloudera Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson to talk about the state of big data, and where Cloudera offerings are headed next. Read more…
Datanami Headlines
Russian and American Scientists Achieve 50% Increase in Data Transmission Speed
As high-performance computing becomes increasingly data-intensive and the demand for shorter turnaround times grows, data transfer speed becomes an ever more important bottleneck. Now, in an article published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, researchers from Samsara University and the University of Missouri have announced the development of an algorithm that increases data transmission speeds in powerful data processing centers by up to one and half times. Read more…
With Eye on Oracle, MariaDB Buys Clustrix
MariaDB Corp. continued its buying spree this week with the acquisition of distributed database pioneer Clustrix, adding what the buyer said is a scale-out capability running on commodity hardware or in the cloud.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Read more…
Migration Tools Needed to Shift ML to Production
The confluence of accelerators like cloud GPUs along with the ability to handle data-rich HPC workloads will help push more machine learning projects into production, concludes a new study that also stresses the importance of cloud migration and accompanying tools. Read more…
Five Ways Big Data Analytics is Transforming Organizations
Organizations are no longer content waiting until tomorrow to know what happened two minutes ago, nor can they afford to wait. Many operational and mission-critical decisions rely on how fast and accurately they can analyze the growing amount of data streaming into the organization. Read more…
Data Unifier Tamr Adds More VC Funding
Tamr Inc., the enterprise data integration specialist, added another $10 million in equity funding to its recent $18 million round announced in July.
While the five-year-old company reportedly expected its July funding round to be its last, two new investors—Granite Hill Capital Partners and Pear Tree Partners—kicked in the additional funding, bringing Tamr’s total so far to $69.2 million. Read more…
Improving Your Odds with Data Science Hiring
If you’re in the market to hire a data scientist, good luck. Demand continues to outpace supply thanks to the unique abilities of data scientists and businesses’ desire to be data-driven. But you can increase the odds of success by keeping certain things in mind as you scour the land for unicorns. Read more…
Datanami Reveals Winners of 2018 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
Datanami this week unveiled the winners of the 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards, which honors the companies, products, and projects that rose to the top in the big data community this year. Also unveiled were the Editors’ Read more…
Ransomware: Employing Object Storage to Defeat a Growing Threat
Ransomware attacks are dominating headlines. So far in 2018, high-profile attack victims have included the city of Atlanta, the city of Baltimore, Boeing and the Colorado Department of Transportation. In fact, the number of reported ransomware incidents spiked by nearly 90% in 2017, and it’s only expected to rise through this year. Read more…
Searching Elastic’s IPO Filing
Elastic filed paperwork last week to make an initial public offering (IPO) of stock to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ESTC, making it the latest software firm with big data roots to test the public markets. Read more…
Cloud Looms Large at Strata, and So Does Kubernetes
While there was heavy cloud cover in New York this week, cloud computing could be seen lifting Strata Data Conference, where vendors scrambled to ensure their products can support cloud and on-premise environments simultaneously, which necessitated a steady diet of Special K. Read more…
So Far, GDPR Compliance is Uneven
Compliance with new European data privacy regulations was spotty in the first three months after the rules took effect at the end of May, with an estimated 70 percent of global companies failing to comply with requests for personal data within the required one-month time period. Read more…
We’re Months Into GDPR. So, What’s Next?
Facebook recently lost $120 billion in market cap in a single day, citing three reasons for its Q2 earnings miss and lowered earnings expectations: the Cambridge Analytica scandal, global currency fluctuations and the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Read more…
Data Manager Eyes NoSQL in the Cloud
Data management vendors continue to target the growing number of cloud-native NoSQL database applications while shifting their platforms to Docker containers to handle microservices-based apps.
Among them is Rubrik, which this week rolled out the latest version of its data protection platform upgraded to handle cloud-based applications on NoSQL databases, including Cassandra and MongoDB. Read more…
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