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Strata Day 3: Event Highlights and Where Big Data Stands Today
This week featured the Strata event, a gathering that’s dedicated to everything big data. It’s an event that has been regularly attended by SiliconANGLE and Wikibon throughout the years. This particular industry has historically been, and still is, a very rapidly evolving one, and Strata provides a rather comprehensive means of tracking the growth of ...
Public Data Still an Untapped Resource: VIDEO
Virginia Carlson of the Metro Chicago Information Center is attending the Strata Conference for the second time, and stopped by theCube with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly. She shared her take on an area that hasn’t been addressed all that much in our big data coverage: exactly how the public center fits in the picture. ...
What We’ll See from Big Data in 2012: Rivalries, Verticals and More Growth
Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly has drawn out the likely big data trends we’ll be seeing as we head deeper into 2012: many of which have already set root last year, and are currently growing to accommodate the sharply climbing demand. Kelly’s first forecast is that the positive competition in this space will continue to expand and ...
Strata Conference Day 2: Making Use of the Web’s Pool of Data
Strata Conference 2012 is all about big data, a term that has gotten considerably bigger since last year, thanks to a market-wide shift and companies like Cloudera, HortonWorks and MapR. Yesterday we covered Day 1, where alongside the usual influx of launches – including a big announcement from Talend and Yahoo’s spun-off analytics crew – ...
Talend’s Open-Source Approach to Hadoop is Working [VIDEO]
Yves de Montcheuil, the head of marketing for Talend, stepped into theCube with John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante to talk a bit about his company, its announcements from the Strata Conference and the big data market in general. He started by providing a bit of background on the data management firm. It was founded ...
SugarSync Pulls in a Sweet $15M in Series D Funding
SugarSync, a freemium service that allows users to share their files and data across multiple devices, earned another very handsome round of VC money. The company raised $15 million in a fourth round of financing led by Coral Group, with participation from earlier backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sigma Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners and Hercule. Coral’s ...
Intel Invests in Belgian Storage Startup
Amplidata announced that it has raised $8 million in a third round of funding from investors Big Bang Ventures, Endeavour Vision, Swisscom and Intel Capital, the chipmaker’s VC branch. The Belgium-based company makes object storage solutions specifically designed to handle unstructured info – i.e big data. The sales pitch breaks down to several elements: scalability ...
EMC’s Investment in VCE Paying Off, Fiscally or Otherwise
Storage giant EMC had done a fairly good job adapting to the major trends in IT today. Its recent Isilon scale-out NAS video walkthroughs represent two of the freshest examples, along with all of the company’s other initiatives. These include EMC’s recent partnership with Atos to create a joint venture that will offer hardware, VMware ...
How Does Bump Handle All that Shared Data? Riak’s NoSQL Database
Riak is an emerging big data technology that’s picking up momentum. The NoSQL database was listed on Jaspesoft’s big data connector infographic as one of the smaller offerings accounting for 26 percent of connector downloads in 2011- the section that hasn’t been gobbled up by the top three solutions just yet. That leaves plenty of ...
Tableau and Attivio Turn Analytics Simplification into a Trend
This week’s full of big data news, in part thanks to O’Reilly’s Strata Conference (check SiliconAngle regularly for live coverage and analysis). We covered Pentaho’s agreement with DataStax to couple its BI platform & interface with the latter’s data engine, with the vision of making it easier for data scientists to work in what is ...