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What Comes First: The Hadoop Application or the Use Case?
It’s a pretty standard rule-of-thumb for successful IT organizations: Identify a compelling use case first, and then invest in the applicable technology. But what if the technology doesn’t exist yet? That, unfortunately, is the dilemma facing many forward-thinking enterprises when it comes to Hadoop. They’ve got ideas about new, innovative ways to monetize Big Data, ...
Attivio Secures Patent for Inverted Index for Joining Unstructured and Structured Data
Attivio has secured a U.S. patent for its unique inverted index, the secret sauce behind the company’s Unified Information Access platform that allows it to access, join and query all data types. U.S. Patent No. 8073840, which you can read here, was issued on December 6, 2011. The AIE platform allows users and developers to ...
Putting Big Data to Work for the Global Good
Some claim that Big Data is about nothing more than delivering targeted ads to online consumers, a notion I’ve refuted in the past. The truth is Big Data has numerous applications, many of them commercial, but others of the more humanitarian variety. Consider Global Pulse, an internal team housed in the U.N.’s Secretary-General’s office. The ...
SAP to Resell NetBase SaaS-based Social Media Analytics App
SAP has made another cloud-based deal, though this one a partnership and not an acquisition. SAP announced this morning that it plans to resell NetBases’s Software-as-a-Service social media analytics application, which transforms Tweets, Facebook updates, blog posts and other social media data into near real-time analytics to help marketers understand the impact of marketing campaigns ...
EMC Packages Its Big Data Analytics Offerings in “Unified” Proprietary Platform
EMC today announced a new Big Data Analytics appliance that brings together the company’s Greenplum analytic database, its MapR-based Hadoop distribution and its Chorus development/collaboration platform under one roof. The platform, called the Unified Analytics Platform, is more or less a repackaging and integration of existing technologies with the goal of providing Data Scientists, business ...
How Many Proprietary, Value-Add Components will Hadoop Community Accept?
Last week, Hortonworks announced its engineers, with the help of the Apache Hadoop community, developed a new RESTful-based protocol called WebHDFS to enable a wider range of application to access the Hadoop Distributed File System. WebHDFS, which is Apache compatible, is designed to make it easier for applications sitting outside Hadoop clusters to connect to ...
Digital Reasoning Scores Series-B Funding, Looks to Expand Reach
Digital Reasoning announced today that it has raised a Series-B round of funding led by In-Q-Tel, Silver Lake Sumero and other individual investors. The company didn’t disclose how much it raised, but GigaOM’s Barb Darrow uncovered the company’s SEC filing that puts the number at $4.2 million. Digital Reasoning’s Synthesis platform uses proprietary algorithms to ...
Survey: Data Scientists Require Rigorous Training, Freedom From Bureaucratic Obstacles
While some view data science as a logical extension of traditional business intelligence (BI), the professionals that populate the two fields are startlingly different, according to the results of a new survey. The survey, which was conducted by EMC and polled nearly 500 data scientists and BI professionals, found that computer science and engineering were ...
EMC Announces New Cloud Computing and Data Science Training Courses
EMC’s Tom Clancy believes the IT industry is at an unprecedented crossroads. “If you look at the transformation we’re all talking about now, it’s all about Cloud and Big Data,” said Clancy, Vice President of Education Services at EMC. “This is the biggest transformation in the history of IT.” Key to successfully navigating the converging ...
Determining Digital Character Demands Breaking Down Data Silos
I can’t say for sure if your customers have moral character, but I can practically guarantee that they each have digital character. “Digital character is this idea that almost everybody these days leaves behind a giant digital breadcrumb trail,” said Elizabeth Charnock, CEO at Cataphora, in a recent report by National Public Radio’s Yuki Noguchi. ...