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Inside Dell EMC’s New Soup-to-Nuts Data Science Platform

Dell EMC today unveiled a new converged platform that combines the hardware and software data scientists need into a single package. By enabling data scientists to self-provision a set of cultivated Hadoop resources, the Read more…

Tracking the Ever-Shifting Big Data Bottleneck

Bottlenecks are a fact of life in IT. No matter how fast you build something, somebody will find a way to max it out. While the performance headroom has been elevated dramatically since Hadoop introduced distributed comp Read more…

Michael Dell Talks EMC, Hybrid Cloud, PCs at Dell World

A week after Dell acquired EMC, the Texas company’s premier client event resonated with its emphasis on end-to-end devices, customer-centric solutions, and building for the future. “Dell is set to become an enterp Read more…

Dell and EMC in Merger Talks, Report Says

Dell is reportedly in talks to merge with EMC, according to published reports. Rumors and uncertainty have swirled around $50-billion storage behemoth EMC. Facing the unscheduled but certainly upcoming retirement of l Read more…

One Deceptively Simple Secret for Data Lake Success

Gartner turned heads last year when it declared that the majority of data lake projects would end in failure. As a self-avowed "old dog" of data warehousing, EMC's Bill Schmarzo vehemently agrees with that assessment, bu Read more…

Pivotal Throws in with Hortonworks and Open Source

Pivotal today pulled the plug on its proprietary big data strategy and uncorked a major repositioning that involves making core products like HAWQ, Greenplum, and GemFire open source and aligning its Hadoop fortunes with Read more…

Data Companies Work With Citizen Scientists on Climate

Storage vendor EMC Corp. is joining forces with big data and cloud specialist Pivotal and the EarthWatch Institute in an effort to apply analytical tools to the study the impact of climate change. The partners along w Read more…

EMC, Pivotal Add Compute to Hadoop Data Lake

Storage vendor EMC Corp. and cloud specialist Pivotal have partnered to roll out a new version of a Data Lake Hadoop Bundle that adds a compute option to the big data product along with accelerated analytics that come wi Read more…

Cisco Jumps Into the All-Flash Storage Array Game

There’s a new kid in the all-flash storage array business that's not really a kid at all. Networking giant, Cisco has signaled their intention of becoming a player in the budding flash arena with the acquisition of the all-flash storage vendor, WHIPTAIL. Announced last week, the acquisition will come with a price tag of approximately $415 million dollars and is expected to finish in Q1 of 2014. Read more…

Cloudera Releases Impala Into the Wild

The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future. Read more…

Pivotal Launches With $105m Investment From GE

Startup company, Pivotal, announced today that they will be receiving a strategic investment from GE along the lines of $105 million dollars, representing a 10% equity stake in the company that was spun out of EMC to challenge the existing cloud software establishment. Read more…

IRS to Utilize Big Data to Improve Returns

Today, April 15, 2013, is tax day in the United States. Millions of Americans are assuredly scrambling to file their returns today and most will be doing so electronically. Specifically, the IRS expects 80 percent of tax returns, or 250 million, to be filed online. That represents a significant big data problem in identifying the veracity of said filings. Read more…

Greenplum, Kaggle Team to Prospect Data Scientists

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, businesses in the United States alone will be short 140,000 to 190,000 data scientists by the year 2018. Greenplum intends to help solve this problem with a complete open sourcing of their Chorus platform and the resulting partnership with Kaggle, a website which fosters growth in the data science community by hosting data mining competitions among its 57,000 participants. Read more…

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…

ABBA Seeks to Top Charts with Flash

ABBA is the source of more than just upbeat disco grooves. These days, the band’s acronym is being revived to back an EMC project that hopes to use Flash technology to spin big data into fast data. Although we too agree that there's just not enough gold iamé in data-intensive computing R&D, there.... Read more…

Open Source Testbed Targets Big Data Development

Greenplum and EMC announced a 1000-node test cluster that will be used by select institutions to validate code running on the Hadoop framework. The companies say the the new service will further big data development by providing an environment to.... Read more…

EMC Study Points to Gaps in Data Science

This week EMC released the results of a recent international survey of over 500 data scientists to discover what key challenges they faced. Instead of technological hurdles, however, the personnel and training issues took top billing. Read more…

Scale-Out NAS Powering Genomics Business

Few industries are creating the kind of massive datasets that roll off genetic sequencing platforms, and genomics researchers are looking for scalable ways to manage the information with an eye on cost. EMC Isilon announced a customer win in genomics, putting scale-out NAS in the spotlight. Read more…

EMC Isilon Loosens Storage Shackles at SCI

EMC Isilon announced a big win this week at the University of Utah's Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI). The research center deployed its scale-out NAS solution to reduce complexity and unify resources. Read more…

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