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SAS Previews Upcoming Enhancements to Viya Platform

Neural network interpretability, integration with open source analytic libraries, and greater mobility within SAS's product suite are among the capabilities that are coming to the SAS Viya platform later this quarter. Read more…

Elastic to Release Source Code for X-Pack

Elastic customers who pay for high-end enterprise features like machine learning in the X-Pack extension will no longer be relegated to a "second-class citizen" experience when working with the vendor to track down bugs Read more…

Weighing Open Source’s Worth for the Future of Big Data

The open source software movement began in earnest 20 years ago, when a group of technology leaders in Silicon Valley coined the term as an alternative to the repugnant "free software." Fast forward to 2018, and the conc Read more…

AI Development Gets a Blockchain Boost

Among the approaches to ramping up AI innovation is applying blockchain technology as a new kind of marketplace to help open-source developers find AI building blocks that can be quickly implemented. In turn, the digital Read more…

Apple Releases Turi ML Software as Open Source

Apple last week released Turi Create, an open source package that it says will make it easy for mobile app developers to infuse machine learning into their products with just a few lines of code. "You don't have to be Read more…

Open-Source ML Server Gets Apache Promotion

The pace of machine learning technology development got another boost this week with the announcement that an open source platform donated last year by Salesforce has been promoted by the Apache Foundation. Apache Pre Read more…

Former Yahoo Unit Releases Vespa Engine

Vespa, Yahoo's big data processing and serving engine, is now available as open source on GitHub, Oath Inc., the company formed in June after the completion of Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo, announced this week. Yaho Read more…

Hate Hadoop? Then You’re Doing It Wrong

There’s been a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking saying Hadoop never made sense in the first place and that it has met its demise. Comments from “Hadoop is slow for small, ad hoc jobs” to “Hadoop is dead and S Read more…

Four Open Source Data Projects To Watch Now

While open source isn't the sole source of creativity and progress in big data, it's a major driver in the space. Market-shaking tech like Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, and MongoDB all began as obscure open source projects backe Read more…

MariaDB Emerging as Default MySQL Option

After more than two years of development, the latest version of the Debian Project, a "universal" open-source operating system, was released over the past weekend. Organizers of the project also said the MariaDB server w Read more…

Welcome to the Open Analytics Era

The explosion in enterprise data is paving the way for expanding analytics strategies in business applications. The embedded analytics market is estimated to nearly double to 46 billion between 2016 and 2021, according t Read more…

RISELab Takes Flight at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley yesterday officially launched the RISELab, the successor to the highly successful AMPLab that produced superstar open source technologies like Apache Spark and Apache Mesos. There's no telling what, if any, R Read more…

Hiring Managers Worldwide Desperately Seeking Open Source Pros

It’s an open secret: if you have open source development skills the world is your oyster. The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report, released today by The Linux Foundationand Dice, a career site for technology professionals, Read more…

ODPi Defines Hadoop Runtime Spec; Operations Up Next

Today the ODPi issued the first set of documents that describes a standard distribution of basic runtime components for Hadoop, including YARN, HDFS, and MapReduce. Going forward, the organization is preparing a manageme Read more…

Why Google Open Sourced Deep Learning Library TensorFlow

Google last week open sourced TensorFlow, a new machine learning library used in deep learning projects. Even though the Web giant has just started using the software in its products, it apparently felt the need to donat Read more…

Hadoop Grabs the Spotlight at Teradata User Confab

Teradata and its customer are embracing Hadoop, the open source platform that's helping to redefine the field of big data analytics. But the tension between the analytic old guard and the big data upstart were palpable a Read more…

Five Ways Open Source Databases Are Best for Business

Today 78% of organizations run part or all of their operations on open source software, a figure that has nearly doubled since 2010. And according to ranking site DB-Engines, six of the top 10 databases are open source, Read more…

FDA Releases Medical Device Database

In an attempt to spur innovation and advance scientific research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a range of information related to the development and regulation of new medical devices. Under its " Read more…

Five Ways Open Source Databases Are Limited

Two of the reasons to deploy an open source database are cost and philosophy. Philosophically, the open source movement subscribes to the notion that having community-developed product creates a better product, and/or "c Read more…

Lockheed Martin, Data Vendors Team on Secure Spy Database

Geospatial intelligence is among the hottest and most data-intensive tools being used by U.S. military analysts to sweep up huge amounts of satellite and other sensor imagery. This highly classified data is often combine Read more…

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