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Adobe delves into Big Data insights with Analysis Workspace
Adobe Inc. has come up with a way for data scientists and marketers to analyze and get insights out of their data. Called Analysis Workspace, the platform allows users to curate customized dashboards jammed with data and insights they can share with colleagues. Adobe said it developed Analysis Workspace after learning from its experience in ...
Accenture revenues top $30B for the year
Technology consulting and outsourcing giant Accenture Plc. reported strong end-of-year financials with a five percent increase in sales revenues to $30 billion for its fiscal 2015, compared to the year before. However, the company’s net income slipped by 10 percent to just $3.2 billion for the year, thanks to a spree of acquisitions made over ...
CSC & AT&T team up to transform hybrid cloud management
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) has teamed up with AT&T Inc. on a new solution that promises to revolutionize workload management across hybrid cloud networks. The two companies have just unveiled the AT&T NetBond® with CSC Agility Platform™ to help businesses increase their agility and drive down costs by shifting critical applications to the cloud. Using ...
Economic data-gatherer Premise Data raises $50 million
There’s been a lot of talk about the staggering growth of Big Data in the world, with some experts saying the amount of data stored on servers across the globe is increasing at an exponential rate, practically doubling as each year passes us by. That may be so, but in Third World countries with poorly ...
MemSQL just made it super easy to deploy Apache Spark
MemSQL Inc., builder of the fast, in-memory MemSQL database for transactions and analytics, has taken the wraps off of an integrated Apache Spark solution to give enterprises an easy way to access real-time analytics. Called Spark Streamliner, the solution gives enterprises a way to deploy Spark without the need to write any code, doing away ...
StackStorm’s event-driven automation platform wins over Netflix
Event-driven automation software firm StackStorm, Inc. today rolled out the enterprise edition of its platform during a keynote at Cassandra Summit yesterday, revealing that Netflix Inc. is already using it to perform auto-remediation tasks. Netflix, which is known to be one of the largest and most prominent Cassandra database users, said it chose to use ...
Thailand’s junta reportedly building China-style Firewall
Thailand’s ruling military junta is reportedly planning to set up a Chinese-style Great Firewall in order to boost its ability to block or censor websites and services it doesn’t like. The proposal was apparently discovered online by a Thai Twitter user Prem Sichanugrist earlier this week, who stumbled across it in an official government repository ...
BlueData updates EPIC to simplify Big Data deployments
One of the main barriers to Big Data deployments is the complexity of the systems needed to run and maintain them on. To try and resolve those issues, BlueData Software Inc. has released a new Big Data platform that aims to keep things simple – it’s offering a turnkey, purpose-built Big Data infrastructure solution that ...
DataStax teams up with Microsoft; unveils DSE 4.8 & Titan 1.0 | #CassandraSummit
It’s a big day for DataStax, Inc. as it takes center stage at the 2015 Cassandra Summit. The company, which is bidding to ramp up enterprise adoption of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database it helps to develop, kicked off the day by announcing a new strategic partnership with cloud heavyweight Microsoft that brings its DataStax ...
Feeding the world with Big Data: The 3000 Rice Genome project
With the world’s human population set to rise from 7.125 billion now to more than 9 billion by the year 2050, scientists are turning to Big Data to ensure we can keep everyone well fed. The 3,000 Rice Genome sequencing project has just made a new 120 TB dataset available on Amazon Web Services’ cloud, ...