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How to Make Your Data Scientist More Productive: EMC + Kaggle
EMC is one of the big vendors showcasing at Strata Conference + Hadoop World this week, and its latest update is a huge gesture towards the data hungry crowd that’s attending the event. The company announced that Greenplum Chorus, an open-source productivity platform for data scientists, will be integrated into Kaggle. The crowdsourcing site’s community ...
What A Big Data Week for Hadoop! Updates from SAP, Talend, MapR and Others
The world is Hadoop’s oyster. Strata Conference + Hadoop World is going down this week in New York, and all the major vendors are jumping on the opportunity to get their latest Hadoop products out into the wild. SAP, Cloudera and others are spearheading this effort, SAP in particular has a new go-to strategy that ...
Cloudera Makes Hadoop Real-Time with Impala
Today at the Strata + Hadoop World event in New York City Cloudera unveiled Impala, an open-source engine that extends Hadoop beyond batch analytics. The big data platform is capable of crunching through massive data-driven workloads in petabytes scale environments, but the MapReduce parallel computing framework on which it is based only allows for batch ...
IBM Switches Themes for IOD: Think Big for Data
Wikibon chief analyst made an appearance on this morning’s NewsDesk to discuss the two hottest events in IT this week: IBM Information OnDemand, and Strata Conference + Hadoop World. The latter kicked off today (Vellante’s full video below). TheCube is broadcasting live from both events, and while it’s too early to report anything from Strata, ...
Disruptive Funding Ideals Need Not Fear the SEC
Wall Street is getting excited over two relatively new trends that are just starting to make a real impact in their respective segments. One of them is FundersClub, which recently raised $6 million in funding for a platform that allows the Average Joe to buy into tomorrow’s Facebook or Twitter. SiliconAngle founder Jon Furrier went ...
Quest Launches New Analytics Software for Hadoop
Quest, the data management firm that Dell acquired this year for $2.4 billion, unveiled three new products that extend the capabilities of the open-source big data platform. Dell already has a couple of Hadoop products out on the market: its homegrown configuration tool, Crowbar, and an appliance that runs Cloudera’s distribution on the analytics engine. ...
Leaked Info on the Cybersecurity of Our Critical Infrastructure
SiliconANGLE’s John Casaretto took some time off this morning to discuss the latest update on the state of Cybersecurity (full video below). Earlier this month, Cassaretto covered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s effort to revive stalled litigation meant to implement measures against potentially devastating attacks on critical infrastructure: utilities, financial intuitions and government agencies. Around the ...
Datameer’s New App Store for Numbers Nerds
Datameer rolled out the Datameer Analytic Applications Market today, an enterprise App Store for big data tools. The Applications Market is pegged as a golden opportunity for both buyers and sellers: users that developed custom code for their data-driven workloads can now augment the return for their efforts, while on the other side of the ...
Juniper Networks Up for Grabs, EMC a Potential Buyer?
New reports suggest that Juniper Networks could be gearing up for a takeover by storage giant EMC. The networking firm has had a series of troubled quarters, its stock suffering from a declining market. It could very well be a good fit for EMC, considering the trend towards converged infrastructure. Cisco’s been aggressively eyeing the storage ...
IBM IOD 2012: Big Data, Enterprise Content Management
IBM Information OnDemand 2012 is just kicking off, but that didn’t stop a few demonstrators from getting their updates out there in advance. One of the vendors that has reserved a booth at the event is Nominum, a developer of IP management software. According to a release fresh this morning the company has achieved IBM Big ...