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How Big Data Can Empower B2B Sales

As consumers, we've grown accustomed to having Big Data look over us. We're no longer surprised when Amazon recommends a perfect of headphones for a 14 year-old girl, or when Target reminds us it's time to buy laundry de Read more…

Apache Spark Surrounded By Cloud Data Services at IBM

IBM has made no secret about its admiration for Apache Spark, which it sees as the future for in-memory analytics. Today the IT giant unveiled a host of new cloud-based data services that bolsters its hosted Apache Spark Read more…

Basho Goes Vertical with Big Data Stack

Basho Technologies made a name for itself in the NoSQL database world by developing a scalable key-value store called Riak that's used by the likes of Time Warner, The Weather Company, and Comcast. Today the company disc Read more…

Basho to Bolster Riak with DB Plug-Ins

The simplicity and scalability of a key-value storage architecture has served Basho Technologies well so far. The company behind the open source Riak NoSQL database counts close to 200 customers, including blue chips lik Read more…

Faceboook Gets Smarter with Graph Engine Optimization

Last fall, the folks in Facebook's engineering team talked about how they employed the Apache Giraph engine to build a graph on its Hadoop platform that can host more than a trillion edges. While the Graph Search engine is capable of massive graphing tasks, there were some workloads that remained outside the company's technical capabilities--until now. Read more…

Apache Spark: 3 Real-World Use Cases

The Hadoop processing engine Spark has risen to become one of the hottest big data technologies in a short amount of time. And while Spark has been a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation for barely a week, the technology has already proven itself in the production systems of early adopters, including Conviva, ClearStory Data, and Yahoo. Read more…

I Didn’t Know Big Data Could Do That!

You've probably heard about some of the common uses for big data technologies--how phone companies reduce customer "churn" with Hadoop, how spy agencies find terrorists with pattern recognition, and how biologists speed drug discovery with graph databases. But the power of data analytic technologies goes far beyond these established use cases, and can be used in genealogy, law, and even pop music. Read more…

How Analytics is Driving Military Intelligence

After the September 11 attacks, it became apparent that the United States intelligence agencies needed to get better at integrating disparate pieces of data. Since then, we've witnessed a massive increase in those agencies' capabilities. And now some branches of the military, including the US Marine Corps, are experimenting with big data analytics technologies, such as Hadoop and graph databases, in pursuit of giving field commanders better intelligence. Read more…

Intel Goes Graph with Hadoop Distro

Intel will be targeting big retail operations with a new graph database that it unveiled today as part of its Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop version 3 announcement. The graph engine will enable customers to make product or customer recommendations in real time, a la Netflix or Amazon, based on existing data. The chip giant also fleshed out its Hadoop distro with a 20x speedup in encryption functions, a data tokenization option, and a handful of new machine learning algorithms aimed at solving common problems. Read more…

Gartner Exclaims “uRiKA!”

Hadoop is synonymous with big data, but perhaps, according to Carl Claunch of Gartner, it should not be. Instead, he suggests an in-memory system like YarcData’s uRiKA might better suited to handle big data graph problems. The research group recently concluded that the in-memory approach-- Read more…

Research Lifts Cluster Weight Off Graphs

If one wanted to analyze the graph of a large social networking site such as Twitter, it would be an uphill climb without the weight of a significant cluster. And in many cases, even then, the result would not be reached for several hours.... Read more…

World’s Top Data-Intensive Systems Unveiled

This year at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, the list of the top data-intensive systems was revealed with heavy tie-ins to placements on the Top500 list of the world's fastest systems, entries from most of the national labs, and plenty of BlueGene action. The list of the top "big data" systems, called the Graph500, measures the performance of.... Read more…

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