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Pew says 40 percent of online adults have been harassment victims
Amid growing concerns over trolls and online harassment, Pew Research Center has released a released new research that concludes that nearly three-quarter s of online adults have witnessed the phenomenon and 40 percent have been victims themselves. While the results may be unsurprising, they put hard numbers on the dark underbelly of an experience that many ...
eBay joins open-source community with ultra-fast OLAP engine for Hadoop
Like arch-rival Amazon.com, the soon-to-split eBay Inc. is something of an oddity in that it hasn’t historically been a big contributor to the open-source community. But the e-commerce pioneer hopes to change that with the release of the source-code for a homegrown online analytics processing (OLAP) engine that promises to speed up Hadoop while also ...
Microsoft/IBM alliance targets Amazon’s cloud dominance
Mutual self-interest can drive even rivals to embrace each other, as IBM and Microsoft have done with a new alliance that’s aimed at leveling the playing field against infrastructure-as-a-service kingpin Amazon.com Inc. and, to a lesser extent, each other. The partnership has two primary components. Microsoft will make its core on-premise offerings available on IBM’s public cloud, ...
When it comes to structured vs. unstructured data, MarkLogic says you can have it all | #BigDataNYC
The term NoSQL typically refers to a category of databases that address unstructured information more effectively than traditional relational models, but MarkLogic Inc. wants it to take on an entirely different meaning. “We don’t like to be be put in a silo; we like to redefine the boundaries of what a database should be,” said ...
Microsoft endorses value of the app economy | #BigDataNYC
The rise of the app economy has created a unique opportunity for developers to pursue their ambitions, producing multi-billion dollar success stories such as Instagram and WhatsApp, but the data science community does not yet have a medium through which to channel its potential. Microsoft Corp.’s Joseph Sirosh dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent BigData ...
Teradata pivots up the analytics food chain with data relationships mapper
Teradata Corp. is rolling out a new solution for identifying relationships across different kinds of information that aims to take the data scientist out of the analytics equation and hurry business insights along. The launch comes as the growing competition from Hadoop pushes the company to expand beyond its data warehousing home turf in pursuit ...
Oracle takes aim at Hadoop governance with Metadata Management suite
Amid exploding demand for data integration software in the Hadoop community, Oracle Corp. is rolling out a new way for organizations to track their information as it progresses through the analytics lifecycle. The launch completes the database maker’s lineup of governance solutions into a full suite on par with competing offerings from the likes of Talend ...
IBM unloads money-losing chip business, shocks investors with Q3 earnings surprise
After many months of wrangling, IBM finally managed to convince Globalfoundries Inc. to take over its unprofitable chip-making operations in a deal that will see Big Blue pay its long-time semiconductor supplier for the trouble rather than the other way around. The costly transaction marks a much-needed high point in the enterprise technology stalwart’s push ...
OpenStack landmark: Mirantis closes record-breaking $100 million funding round
Mirantis Inc. has snagged $100 million in funding to step up its campaign for OpenStack dominance amid increasing competition from both fellow startups and larger incumbent vendors vying for a slice of the hottest trend in the cloud. The record-breaking round, the company’s second, marks the biggest venture capital infusion in the history of the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Microsoft expands open source reach
Mirroring the trend in the data analytics space, open source is emerging as a key driver of innovation in the cloud, where the big vendors are wasting no time jumping on the bandwagon. Microsoft Corp. is leading by example and throwing its weight behind Docker in a landmark move set to bring the most buzzed-about ...