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A Decade into Big Data

2016 marked the 10-year anniversary of Hadoop, a name closely associated with “Big Data." Prior to the advent of Big Data, companies invested in solutions that were not forward-looking; they could only address the imme Read more…

Attunity Relishes Role as Connective Tissue for Big Data

In the big data world, there are a few patterns that repeat themselves over and over again. One of those is the need to move data from one place to another. For data integration tool maker Attunity, that pattern has prov Read more…

Hadoop Was Hard to Find at Strata This Week

It's been barely six months since the word "Hadoop" was removed from the name of the world's biggest big-data trade show, and at this week's Strata Data Conference in New York City, Hadoop all but disappeared. Yet key pa 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…

Yahoo’s Massive Hadoop Scale on Display at Dataworks Summit

Yahoo put its massive Hadoop investment on display this week at Dataworks Summit, the semi-annual big data conference that it co-hosts with Hortonworks. While Hadoop is no longer the conference headliner that it once Read more…

Google Lauds Outside Influence on Apache Beam

Apache Beam started life as a decidedly Google-ish technology designed to mask the complexity inherent in building sophisticated analytic pipelines that run across distributed systems. But over the course of becoming a t Read more…

What 2017 Will Bring: 10 More Big Data Predictions

2017 is finally here. But what will the New Year bring? We leave that up to our crack team of industry prognosticators, who have taken it upon themselves to issue a range of predictions for the field they know best: big Read more…

This Week in Graph and Entity Analytics

Yahoo, Cambridge Semantics, and Ravel Law are among the companies making news this week in the burgeoning field of graph and entity analytics. Wouldn't it be nice to automatically extract meaningful information from t Read more…

Unstructured Data Search Engine Has Roots in HPC

A search engine first developed in the HPC world to identify anomalies in biomedical images and then used by the military to track terrorists from UAV imagery is now being applied to the world's vast supply of unstructur Read more…

Yahoo Shares Algorithm for Identifying ‘NSFW’ Images

Yahoo is releasing the deep learning algorithm that it uses to detect "not safe for work" (NSFW) images to the open source community, the Web giant announced last week. Anywhere from 4% to 30% of the Internet is compo Read more…

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