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An Open Source Cure to Cancer

Salvatore Iaconesi, digital design professor at La Sapienza University in Rome and TED fellow, may have laid the first stone on the path out of medical secrecy when he posted his medical information to a special section of his Art is Open Source website which he calls “The Cure.” Iaconesi was diagnosed with brain cancer and would not accept the prescribed treatment of surgery and chemotherapy as being the only way. Read more…

Druid Summons Strength in Real-Time

Ever since it was released into the open source community earlier last month, the open source Druid data store that was purpose-built by Metamarkets to add a missing piece to the Hadoop and big data ecosystem has found interested parties, including Netflix, to..... Read more…

Infochimps Leap to Open Source Branches

Open source projects like LinkedIn's Kafka and the Twitter-developed Storm have found a new home in the Infochimps tree. We spoke with the company's co-founder, Flip Kromer and their CEO, Jim Kaskade, about how these introduce performance and reliability, even among the clouds.... Read more…

Cloudera Runs Real-Time with Impala

This week at Strata Hadoop World we sat down Cloudera CEO, Mike Olson, to talk about the company's recent open sourced effort to add a real-time aspect to Hadoop, thus taking it beyond its batch-only roots. We also hit on emerging issues in the ecosystem, including how their competitive advantages stack up against others in the... Read more…

Quantcast Opens Exabyte-Ready File System

When ingesting data volumes that tip the multi-exabyte per year scales, even the most notorious, robust systems for managing scale can start to crumble under their own weight. When the cost and complexity of this volume mount, what’s a growing company to do but look beyond the buzz for its own solutions?...We speak with Quantcast CEO and VP of R&D about the.... Read more…

Cascading into Hadoop’s Golden Era

One of the most persistent challenges facing those considering Hadoop is finding developers able to tap into MapReduce to build complex Hadoop applications. This week we talked with the author of the open source project Cascading and CEO and founder of the company that is pushing it forward, Chris Wensel about how Hadoop will be.... Read more…

The Double-Edged Sword of Open Source

Open source may be leading to an opening for smaller companies to reap the benefits of big data, at least in the opinion of Bertrand Diard, Talend’s co-founder and CEO. While using Hadoop as the prime example, Diard claims that co-operation... Read more…

Pulling the Knife on Open Source Big Data

This week we spent some time addressing a few of the more popular open source tools for attacking big data problems with Jeffrey Breen, who expanded on how R is the "Swiss Army knife" for big data, how Hadoop can really go to work for.... Read more…

IBM Big Data VP Surveys Landscape

Following a discussion with IBM's Vice President of Big Data Products, we gained a real-time view into how the company is addressing the influx of startups and open source competitors, what it plans to do further inroads into complex event processing technologies and how IBM will stay ahead of the next generation of big data needs streaming from.... Read more…

A Revolution for Open Source Big Data

This week during an interview, David Rich, the new CEO of Revolution Analytics, shed light on his future at the helm of Revolution Analytics. He provided a sense of what the company faces as the world of analytics gains unprecedented.... Read more…

HBase Rival Steps Out of the Shadows

With the claim that their database, which is modeled after Google's own Bigtable in-house scalable DB, can bring along massive efficiencies over HBase, one open source database startup is finding a way to fit into the existing big data... Read more…

Oracle Flags Down R Users with Analytics Option

Today Oracle announced a new piece to its enterprise analytics capabilities via the addition of an option to include the open source R statistics language within bundles of its enterprise R and data mining offerings that the company... Read more…

Talend Clarifies Oil and Gas Data Management

Open source integration software company, Talend, is moving swiftly into new markets, including oil and gas. We talked with the company's senior director of product marketing, Ciaran Dynes, about the big data management challenges when it comes to data-heavy industries. Read more…

Jaspersoft Brings Hadoop to BI with IBM

Open source business intelligence vendor, Jaspersoft, announced a partnership with IBM to bring InfoSphere BigInsights to the Jaspersoft BI platform. Read more…

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