5 reasons to turn to Spark for big data analytics
Over the past couple of years, as Hadoop has become the dominant paradigm for big data processing, several facts have become clear. First, the Hadoop Distributed File System is the right storage platform for big data. Second, YARN is the ...
Can You Put a Price on Big Data?
The internet era has changed the economic and political landscape completely. The power of big data has revolutionised most business processes and now allows for decisions and analytical judgments to be made with more certainty than ever before.
In order for ...
The Industries For Whom Secure Data Sharing is a Must in 2015
It’s true that secure data sharing is important for nearly all industries operating across the globe today. With so much pressure heaped upon companies to keep any data that they may hold safe, secure sharing is of the utmost importance ...
Making Hadoop Simple On-premises and in the Cloud
An increasing number of enterprises are either currently using or are planning to use cloud deployment models to expand their IT infrastructure for big data. We find that organizations are looking for an open and flexible platform that enables them ...
MapReduce for C: Run Native Code in Hadoop
Google announced the release of MapReduce for C (MR4C), an open source framework that allows you to run native code in Hadoop.
MR4C was originally developed at Skybox Imaging to facilitate large scale satellite image processing and geospatial data science. We ...
3 Big data trends for business intelligence
Big data has given businesses a window into valuable streams of information from customer purchasing habits to inventory status. However, internal data streams give only a limited picture, especially with the growth of digital business.
Three trends Gartner has identified describe ...
Big Data and Predictive Analytics for Telecoms
Transform Into Analytics Driven Operator and Boost Revenue Streams via Improved Business Intelligence Lifecycle
21-22 April 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Big Data and Predictive Analytics for Telecoms is the premium event bringing together leading telecom network providers with specialist technology and service providers. As an ...
10 Indian Big Data companies to watch out for in 2015
As the data we generate every micro-second grows and accelerates at a rapid velocity, the requirement for making a business decision is shifting from hindsight-based decision making to a foresight-based approach. Companies are banking upon Big Data and analytics. According ...
Could Microsoft Cosmos Challenge Hadoop?
A new Microsoft data crunching framework is set to launch on the company’s Azure cloud, according to a report from Redmond pundit Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet. Dubbed Cosmos, it’s a potential competitor to both Hadoop and eventually Google’s homegrown ...
Free Ticket to Big Data/NoSQL (Cassandra) All Day Conference in Los Angeles
Cassandra Day Los Angeles 2015 - February 12th, 2015
Are you interested in big data and/or database technologies….so we wanted to let you know about our Cassandra Day LA event on Thursday, February 12, 2015. This is your chance to get ...