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Pentaho Automates Data Vizualization, So Nothing’s Lost In Translation
Data visualization is for more than just new educational programs on the History channel. With Big Data making its mark on end users in the enterprise, understanding the metadata becomes all the more important. Visualization is one of the most helpful ways data can be represented, but distributing this formated information through the cloud’s countless ...
Does the World Need Another Hadoop Distro? Greenplum Says Yes
Greenplum is challenging Cloudera and MapR with a new Hadoop solution that delivers faster response times and better integration than the competition. Donald Miner, the solutions architect for the EMC subsidiary, blogged the news this morning. Dubbed Pivotal HD, the distribution will be launched into general availability later this year. It will ship a couple ...
LG Takes WebOS Off HP’s Hands for “Smart TV” Initiative, Despite Slow Demand
LG Electronics signed a definitive agreement with Hewlett-Packard to buy webOS, the mobile operating system the latter obtained through the acquisition of Palm in 2010. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a release stated that “HP and LG do not expect this transaction to have a material impact on either company’s financial statements.” ...
Hortonworks Retrofits Hadoop for Excel Lovers with Windows Distro: Azure Next
Hortonworks just released a Windows version of HDP, its open-source Hadoop distribution. The beta is downloadable from the company’s site. The Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows is the product of a strategic alliance between the big data startup and Microsoft that dates back October 2011. “Today’s news builds on our long-term collaboration with Microsoft and ...
Changing the World: Big Data Deep Dive Part 1
The problem with Big Data the buzzword is its elusiveness. The more we try to define Big Data, the less applicable the effort. We might as well try to pin down the Internet. We’ve reached a turning point in Big Data’s journey, one that requires no definition. Big Data’s ready to be contextualized, appreciating its ...
This Week in the Cloud: End-User Management, Mega and Home Entertainment
Managing end-users is no easier task, but two firms have set out to make it easier. Both companies had major milestones this week in the world of cloud computing. Virtualization specialist VMware debuted the latest release of the Horizon Suite, its pre-bundled enterprise mobility offering. This newest version includes a solution named VMware Workplace – ...
Analytics Make the World Go ‘Round, Especially for Faltering Ad Networks
Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media has been busy lately, warding off flailing interest from Wall Street and making acquisitions in an effort to continually improve its targeting and analytics capabilities. In a business world increasingly driven by data, Millennial Media has acquired Metasolver, a privately-held analytics startup that help marketers improve ad targeting. Millennial Media CEO ...
This Week in Big Data: Open-Source, Funding, and a New Book
We’ve had a few interesting developments in Big Data this week. Hortonworks and Red Hat announced major contributions to the open-source community, an emerging search startup closed a massive round of funding, and Alteryx published a Big Data handbook for business users. Hortonworks, the Hadoop services startup that spun off from Yahoo last year, made ...
Hewlett-Packard Earnings: It Could Have Been Worse
Hewlett-Packard suffered a massive decline in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014, but it still performed better than what analysts expected. HP reported earnings of 82 cents, down 11 percent from last year but well ahead of the 71 cents the Street forecasted. Sales stood at $28.4 billion, better than the consensus estimate, but ...
What’s the Impact of Big Data on IT Infrastructure?
Big Data’s been a big boost to business in recent months, presenting a competitive advantage for those with the resources to work through the information at hand. And as promising as Big Data frameworks are, there can be some significant infrastructure changes that need to take place within a business’ IT department. Stu Miniman, the ...