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Platfora puts big data discovery in business users’ hands

By Michelle Davidson Mar 30, 2016

Business users looking to access and analyze big data have a new option: Platfora 5.2. Announced yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, Platfora 5.2 enables “citizen data scientists” to do their own data preparation,…

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Apache Spark will dominate the Big Data landscape by 2022, Wikibon says

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2016

The Apache Spark Big Data processing framework will account for more than a third of all Big Data spending by 2022, according to new research by Wikibon. Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert’s latest…

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Wikibon names IBM as #1 Big Data vendor by revenue

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2016

Wikibon has just released its latest 2015 Big Data Market Shares report, highlighting the hardware, software, and services vendors that are likely to lead a Big Data market that’s set to hit $92.2 billion…

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Wikibon forecasts Big Data market to hit $92.2B by 2026

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2016

The global big data market will grow from $18.3 billion in 2014 to a whopping $92.2 billion by 2026, representing a strong compound annual growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to Wikibon’s newly published…

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MapD unveils a GPU-powered database for running complex visualizations

By Maria Deutscher Mar 30, 2016

The need for faster access to business intelligence is reshaping analytics environments all the way down to the hardware level. On the storage side, modern number-crunching systems like Apache Spark keep records in memory…

Microsoft’s chatbot Tay is brought back to life … and within hours killed a second time

By James Farrell Mar 30, 2016

Microsoft’s A.I chatbot Tay has gone and done it again: got herself taken offline. Tay, a product of Microsoft’s Technology and Research and Bing, didn’t exactly get off to a good start last week when…

Apache Flink creators snag $6M for stream-processing startup

By Paul Gillin Mar 30, 2016

Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around the importance of Apache Spark for event processing, there’s a new real-time player to consider. Data Artisans, a startup founded by the original…

Windows 10 tips and tricks: How to switch between a Microsoft account and a local account

By Collen Kriel Mar 30, 2016

When you download Windows 10, the default is to sign in with your Microsoft account or create one if you do not already have an account. Signing in to Windows 10 using a Microsoft account…

Digital Asset Holdings signs Depository Trust & Clearing Corp deal for Blockchain repos trial

By Duncan Riley Mar 30, 2016

Blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings, LLC has signed a new deal with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. to trial the company’s Blockchain technology at the firm. Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., a post-trade…

Uber announces Ride Request Widget: Easily book an Uber ride directly in third-party apps

By Collen Kriel Mar 30, 2016

Uber Technologies Inc. introduced the Ride Request Button in December, which allows users to book a ride whilst in a third party app. Tapping the button would deep-link into the Uber app where customers…