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Cerego uses data to help tomorrow’s health professionals study better
It’s been almost a year since Cerego exited stealth with an ambitious memory management tool that marries elements of psychology and applied learning with self-optimizing algorithms to bring education into the twenty-first century. The platform uses these algorithms to identify students’ strengths and weakness and generate appropriate personalized study plans that accelerate the learning process ...
Amazon gets serious about Cloud analytics with PostgreSQL, stream processing
After diving into the desktop-as-a-service market and tackling mobile UX on Day 2 of re:Invent 2013, Amazon is going after cloud analytics in a two-pronged offensive against enterprise vendors. On the relational database front, the firm is upgrading its RDS service to support PosgreSQL, an open source MySQL rival with roots stretching back to the ...
Partners make AWS more transparent, Big Data friendly @ re:Invent
There’s been no lack of excitement at Amazon’s re:Invent conference this week, with the IaaS titan announcing two new services for streaming apps and desktops from the cloud. Further fueling the buzz, the company pulled back the curtains on CloudTrail, a free tool that lets customers track API calls to their AWS deployments. CloudTrail aims ...
Amazon, competition double down on Devs @ re:Invent 2013
Earlier this week, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal threw down the gauntlet to Amazon with a new cloud development platform that includes a set of integrated tools for analyzing Big Data. Now, the infrastructure-as-a-service behemoth is firing back. Amazon today announced two new AWS services at its re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, including WorkPlaces, ...
Eyeing SMB market, HP packages VSA into Gen8 servers
Hewlett Packard is bringing the software-defined data center into reach for small and medium-size businesses with a complimentary edition of its HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) software. A limited license of VSA is now available for no charge upon every purchase of least two “eligible” ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP didn’t specify which machines you ...
Looking back at #ooc13: In-memory processing + flash as a means to reduce costs
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison declared war on SAP HANA with the new In-Memory Option for his company’s flagship database software. The feature delivers “ungodly” performance with up to 100 times faster queries, but in true Oracle spirit, the extra horsepower comes with a price tag to match. The ...
Causation vs. Correlation in BI : Nate Silver + others chime in
In traditional decision making, the metrics that impact the bottom line will almost always take precedence over the underlying drivers of change. The reasons behind a purchase decision fade into insignificance when you can deduce what a customer will buy next by other means – at least, that’s the theory. With the emergence of Big ...
Box CIO on the intricacies of the job | #BigDataNYC
When Ben Haines joined Box as CIO six months ago, the former Pabst Brewing Co. executive wasted no time in getting up to speed with the intricacies of managing IT for a cloud service provider. A veteran of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space, Haines started his first job in the tech industry with a ...
Attunity upgrades AWS replication service at AWS re:Invent 2013
Attunity announced on Tuesday that it has enhanced its CloudBeam file replication and transfer service to better accommodate Big Data workloads of varying sizes. The update introduces “quality of service” tiers that enable customers to optimize their cloud uplinks for cost and performance, with throughput speeds ranging from 200Mbps all the way up to 1Gbps. ...
Pivotal unleashes Cloud-based Big Data platform
Pivotal, the buzzed-about Big Data venture that was spun out of EMC and VMware earlier this year, is attempting to marry the power of Hadoop with the elasticity of the open cloud. The company’s newly unveiled Pivotal One platform is the culmination of $105 million in funding, months of work by hundreds of engineers and ...