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Big Data’s Next Big Thing: Sports Training and Personalized Medicine

Big data analytics is having a huge impact across lots of industries, with financial services and retail leading the pack. But according to one expert, there's a curious lack of human analytics talent focused on the pote Read more…

Yahoo! Spinning Continuous Computing with YARN

YARN was the big news this week, with the announcement that the Hadoop resource manager is finally hitting the streets as part of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) “Community Preview.” According to Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, who spoke at Hadoop Summit this week, Yahoo! has been able to leverage YARN to transform the processing in their Hadoop cluster from simple, stodgy MapReduce, to a nimble micro-batch engine processing machine – a change which they refer to as “continuous computing.” Read more…

Gartner’s Adrian Raps on Big Data’s Present and Future

In a keynote session to kick off Hadoop Summit in this week, Gartner research VP, Merv Adrian, gave a level-setting presentation on Gartner’s view of the Big Data market space, discussing the preliminary results from a recent market survey, and discussing challenges as well as impending innovations of Hadoop. Read more…

Hadoop Data Management Set to Fly with Falcon

Hadoop data management tools for the enterprise are on their way says a team of open source developers at Hortonworks and InMobi, who recently saw their project, dubbed Falcon, accepted as an Apache Software Foundation incubator project. Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

We wrap up this week with news about a new high performance, data-intensive supercomputer from SGI, new Hadoop announcements, including those from Hortonworks, Datameer, and Karmasphere, some software enhancements for big data infrastructure from ScaleOut and some other startup goodness--all with an eye on next week's International.... Read more…

Hadoop Events Crowd 2012 Calendar

If this is indeed the "Year of Hadoop" then it stands to reason this should also be the year of Hadoop-flavored events. In true form, Hadoop conferences in 2012 are growing in number, as are user groups, training sessions and workshops to.... Read more…

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