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IT: How To Get Ready for the Post-Holiday Low-End Tablet Onslaught
In the last 18 months many businesses have seen iPads come in the door under the arms of their executives. Now they should prepare for the post-holiday appearance of potentially larger numbers of low-end tablets from the likes of Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The question is, what, if any, services will IT want to ...
Cloud/Mobile Strategy 6: Choosing Good Candidates for the Cloud
Okay, so you have defined the business services you provide and have gained enough experience to have a good idea of what public cloud services are like. Now you need to decide what, if any, of those you want to move to the cloud. So what makes a good candidate for transfer to the cloud? ...
Cloud/Mobile Strategy 5: Security in the Cloud
Security is always a major concern when discussing public cloud services. CIOs and often senior management as well feel safer keeping control over vital company data rather than trusting it to a third party out somewhere on the Internet. You know where it is physically and what is happening to it. And it just feels ...
Digital Reasoning Focuses on Pattern Recognition in Unstructured Data on Hadoop
Cloudera user Digital Reasoning is focused on developing ontologies for unstructured data, basically finding the patterns that allow that data to be analyzed, company CEO Tim Estes told SiliconAngle CEO and Founder John Furrier and Wikibon.org Chief Analyst David Vellante in an interview webcast live from HadoopWorld 2011 on SiliconAngle.tv. The company, which has about ...
“Hadoop Lets Us Run Queries that Wouldn’t Finish Before” Says Edmunds’ Gregory Rokita
Edmunds is an early Hadoop adopter, moving from Oracle RAC. Hbase allows Edmunds to combine structured and unstructured data into a single architecture. “The other advantage is we can load and query our data much faster, so our business analytics are much more productive,” Rokita told Wikibon.com Co-Founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante and SiliconAngle.com ...
Cloudera CEO and his Backers Discuss Accel’s New $100M Big Data Fund
Venture capital fund Accel Partners, a major investor in Cloudera, Clickview, and Fusion-IO, announced the creation of a $100M Big Data fund at HadoopWorld 2011 in New York City Nov. 8, to foster rapid innovation and development on top of the Hadoop/Big Data platform. The opportunity to invest early in a new technology platform like ...
Big Data Analysis as Self-Service SaaS for Everyone? That’s Quantivo’s Plan
Big data is widely seen as the next big thing in marketing and customer relations by large enterprises. Technologies like Cloudera to Amazon Elastic MapReduce are mostly based on the open-source Hadoop database technology developed originally by Yahoo and Google to organize and analyze very large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The technology offers ...
Hortonworks to Take Apache Hadoop Beyond MapReduce, Says Arun Murthy
The Hortonworks team of ex-Yahoo Hadoop developers is focused on their announced goal of getting half of the world’s data onto Apache Hadoop within the next five years, says Hortonworks Co-Founder and Architect Arun Murthy. To do that it is developing a high-availability, massively scalable, fully open source version of Apache Hadoop based on the ...
Super-Geeks Study Data Systems for the Challenge, Stay for the Opportunity, says Daniel Abadi
“I started studying data systems as an undergrad because I found it interesting,” says Daniel Abadi, Yale University assistant professor and co-founder and chief scientist at startup Hadapt. “Clearly data is becoming the center of the world, and how you store and process that data is fascinating and vital. If you control that, you control ...
HP Announces New Business Tablet
HP Thursday announced a new $700 Windows 7 business tablet, underlining its renewed commitment to the business end-user computing market. The new HP Slate 2 Tablet PC is an upgrade to its original Slate, now more than a year old. Whether this new tablet does better than that original will depend in large part on ...