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Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa

By Mike Wheatley Jul 20, 2017

Amazon.com Inc. made a significant acquisition earlier this year in order to “improve” its voice-powered Alexa digital assistant, according to reports. Amazon splashed out “tens of millions of dollars” to acquire Santa Barbara, California-based…

Big Data

Will serverless functions beat DevOps in race to democratize analytics?

By R. Danes Jul 20, 2017

Enterprise data scientists and developers fed up with data that just sits there and doesn’t make money might take heart in a prediction from Ali Ghodsi (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder of Databricks Inc.…

Big Data

Can big data DevOps see what abstraction is hiding?

By R. Danes Jul 20, 2017

DevOps that have worked well in other areas of information technology can’t hack it in big data, according to Ash Munshi (pictured), chief executive officer of Pepperdata Inc. “While agile and all that still works, the…

Cloud

Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high

By Paul Gillin Jul 20, 2017

Microsoft Corp. crushed analysts’ estimates for sales and earnings in the quarter ended June 30, providing further evidence that it has successfully turned the corner from packaged-software company into cloud services provider. Investors rejoiced,…

Big Data

A game of data science: the analytics architecture behind Riot Games

By Aaron Melgar Jul 20, 2017

With the help of modern analytics, Riot Games Inc. developed a highly successful computer game called League of Legends, in which players form teams of champions and compete with other players around the world.…

Big Data

Confluent makes Kafka easier in the cloud, grants new data powers to small business

By Nelson Williams Jul 20, 2017

Where data processing is concerned, speed is life. Companies can ship off some workloads to batch processing, but they need to process the critical stuff in real-time while a customer or system interaction is…

Big Data

How Spark helped build a community inside a distributed company

By Nelson Williams Jul 20, 2017

It’s hard to appreciate just how large organizations can be until someone has to get all those departments and splintered businesses talking to each other. They need a common platform to share data. Hewlett…

Big Data

Cloudera aims to change the way data is engineered

By Aaron Melgar Jul 20, 2017

Developing an accurate data science model is a challenging process on its own. Scaling the model from a development environment to a production cluster presents another set of operational challenges that Cloudera Inc. aims to…

Emerging Tech

Largest darknet market, AlphaBay, was taken out by global police operation

By Eric David Jul 20, 2017

The U.S. Department of Justice has officially confirmed its role in the global law enforcement operation that took down the darknet marketplace AlphaBay earlier this month. AlphaBay, which allowed the sale of illegal goods and…

Big Data

Hotels.com embraces data-driven culture

By Mark Albertson Jul 20, 2017

Whether you are looking for a luxury hotel on a secluded beach or a place to stay in midtown Manhattan that won’t break the bank, the process of sorting through options and booking online…

the latest

Report: Amazon secretly acquired search engine startup Graphiq to boost Alexa

Will serverless functions beat DevOps in race to democratize analytics?

Can big data DevOps see what abstraction is hiding?

Microsoft blows away earnings forecast and its shares hit an all-time high

A game of data science: the analytics architecture behind Riot Games

Confluent makes Kafka easier in the cloud, grants new data powers to small business

How Spark helped build a community inside a distributed company

Cloudera aims to change the way data is engineered

Largest darknet market, AlphaBay, was taken out by global police operation

Hotels.com embraces data-driven culture

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