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Helping the Government Survive the Data Tsunami

TechAmerica published a report to guide government agencies in developing a big data strategy. The report identified educating data scientists and implementing precise data management solutions for particular use cases as important for government agencies. Read more…

Cascading into Hadoop’s Golden Era

One of the most persistent challenges facing those considering Hadoop is finding developers able to tap into MapReduce to build complex Hadoop applications. This week we talked with the author of the open source project Cascading and CEO and founder of the company that is pushing it forward, Chris Wensel about how Hadoop will be.... Read more…

Amazon Unveils Dynamo as a Service

This week Amazon formally announced that it would be offering users the ability to take advantage of Dynamo, the framework it has used to provide high availability, reliability and scalability to a number of its own web operations. The company claims this offering is enterprise-ready.... Read more…

Hadoop Alternative Lands on Amazon’s Cloud

The processing and data handling engine behind HPCC Systems, the alternative to Hadoop offered by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, is being made available to users of Amazon Web Services, heating up the Hadoop battles in the cloud and on the ground. Read more…

Elastic MapReduce Lead Traces Big Data Clouds

At the AWS Gov 2011 summit, general manager for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Map Reduce offering, Peter Sirota provided some prime use cases for its hosted Hadoop service and highlighted innovative ways MapReduce is changing commerce. Read more…

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