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Amazon Adds AI, SQL to Analytics Arsenal

By any measure, Amazon Web Services is already a monster in the field of analytics via pre-built Hadoop, Redshift, Kinesis, and deep learning services. With today's unveiling of its new Amazon AI offering and a new ad-ho Read more…

A Peek Inside DataStax’s New Cloud Strategy

DataStax revealed this week that it's getting into the Apache Cassandra cloud business with the acquisition of DataScale. While the cloud pivot certainly diversifies DataStax's business, some speculate it may be a respon Read more…

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AWS Beats Azure to K80 General Availability

Amazon Web Services has seeded its cloud with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to meet the growing demand for accelerated computing across an increasingly-diverse range of workloads. The P2 instance family is a welcome addition fo Read more…

Oracle Bolsters Cloud Gambit With Expanded Analytics

As it looks to challenge public cloud leader Amazon Web Services, Oracle Corp. is rolling out an analytics package spanning data services, applications and infrastructure. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) unveiled its analytics cl Read more…

The SQL Service at the Heart of Amazon Kinesis Analytics

Amazon Web Services gave real-time application developers a boost last week when it unveiled Amazon Kinesis Analytics, a new service for continuously querying streaming data using good old SQL. The service hooks into the Read more…

Datos IO Partners With AWS on Data Backup

Growing deployment of distributed applications on scale-out and cloud databases has, vendors claim, fueled the need to protect critical application data, resulting in data governance standards that mandate backup and rec Read more…

Seeking Ideal Clouds for ML Workloads

As machine learning increasingly works its way into the world, technologists must find ways to integrate the new applications and incorporate the new workloads with existing systems. Many agree that the cloud is a good p Read more…

Inside the Analytic Transformation of Pitney Bowes

Who is Pitney Bowes? For some, the 96-year-old company is synonymous with 20th century technology, like mailing machines and postage meters. But after Tuesday's launch of its new Commerce Cloud, it's clear the company se Read more…

Inside Redfin’s Cautious Approach to Big Data

There's a certain allure to big data technology that tempts us to view it as the solution to every business problem. But there are times when the simplicity of traditional technology--like relational databases--outweigh Read more…

AWS Cloud Pact Shows How Far Teradata Has Come

Next year, Teradata will offer its eponymous database as a service on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It will be the first foray onto a public cloud for Teradata, which has come a long way from its proprietary hardware ro Read more…

Rice Genome Data Mined to Feed a Hungry Planet

The global population is forecast to top 7.7 billion human beings by 2020. As weather patterns change and, with them, global agricultural production, a new dataset containing the genome sequences of more than 3,000 rice Read more…

Huge Radio Telescope Gets New Database

The world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), will be getting a data storage and analytics upgrade thanks to a grant from the organization that operates the telescope and partner (AWS). The Du Read more…

NOAA Launches Big Data Project

A big data project launched by the U.S. Commerce Department brings together major cloud analytics vendors and the Open Cloud Consortium to develop infrastructure needed to access the more than 20 terabytes of satellite w Read more…

Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?

First we had IBM Watson Analytics, then Microsoft launched Azure Machine Learning. With last week's launch of Amazon Machine Learning, the e-commerce giant is the latest tech giant to attempt to democratize the developme Read more…

Peaxy Launches Scalable Data Manager

Data management specialist Peaxy Inc. (pronounced "peak-see") is targeting the enormous growth of unstructured data in industrial sectors with its Hyperfiler system designed to harness disparate data through controlled a Read more…

Keeping Tabs on Amazon EMR Performance

The Hadoop architecture may appear simple at first, but it's deceptively complex and may lull you into a false sense of security as you try to scale your cluster. If you run Hadoop on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, there are a number of potentially wallet-draining performance issues to keep an eye on. This week, Compuware launched an Amazon-resident solution to help prevent EMR jobs from running amok. Read more…

DataStax Puts Big Database in Google’s Cloud

When it comes to big databases running in the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a virtual lock on the market. However, today Cassandra DB promoter DataStax and mega datacenter operator Google unveiled a partnership that will see the pair picking away at Amazon's dominance when it comes to cloud-hosted NoSQL databases for big data workloads. Read more…

MapR Turns to Ubuntu in Bid to Increase Footprint

Last week, MapR and Canonical announced a partnership to make the MapR M3 free community edition of Hadoop available to Ubuntu Linux OS. As part of MapR’s drive to increase its footprint, the company has announced that it is turning to GitHub to release the source code for the free package. Read more…

Vogels: Hate the Name, Not the Tech

Big data will help enterprises start acting more like lean startups, argued Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels at the Technology Frontiers 2013 Conference this week in London. Read more…

Red Hat Releases Storage Plug-in to the Apache Wild

Big data may be the killer app for clouds, said Red Hat today, announcing their intention to seamlessly shepherd their considerable installed user base into a new era of computing. Read more…

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