How to build a single-node Hadoop/R system
The best way to learn any software is to use it, and if you're new to Hadoop and want to try using Hadoop with R the process of setting up your own Hadoop cluster can be daunting (to say the ...
Big Data-The Digital Backbone Of Formula 1
Formula 1 Grand Prix racing hits the silver screen next weekend in Rush, a Ron Howard film depicting the rivalry between drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 F1 season. But while Howard will surely deliver all the ...
Univa, MapR Partner Over Enterprise-Grade Hadoop Management
Data center automation company Univa is working with MapR Technologies to integrate its Grid Engine. The partnership will allow customers to run mixed workloads for enterprise reporting and analytics using the MapR Distribution for Hadoop with the policy control management ...
See if the R language fits in your big data toolkit
SAS is a data processing and statistical analysis language that was invented by Anthony J. Barr in the 1960s. It later became the mainstay product of the SAS Institute, which was incorporated in 1976 by Barr, Jim Goodnight, John Sall, ...
Twitter open sources Storm-Hadoop hybrid called Summingbird
Twitter has open sourced a system that aims to mitigate the tradeoffs between batch processing and stream processing by combining them into a hybrid system. In the case of Twitter, Hadoop handles batch processing, Storm handles stream processing, and the ...
HP Makes Big Data Plans for Intel Avoton Processors
HP, in partnership with Intel, significantly expanded the capabilities of its forthcoming line of Project Moonshot servers by adding support for a new class of low-energy Intel Atom C2000 processor family, code named Avoton, based on the Silvermont micro-architecture.
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6 Basic Mistakes Marketers Make About Big Data
Sure, we're all suffering from big data fatigue. But try to forget that for a moment. The real “eureka” behind big data is this: Having information is no longer confined to merely understanding the past. Now — for the first ...
Cassandra 2.0-The next generation of big data
In 2008, Facebook gave big data users a gift. The social network released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data store to open source. Today, with the release of Cassandra 2.0, the gift is more valuable than ever.
Since 2008, under ...
Big data is just one of the CMO’s weapons
Big Data is only part of the CMO’s new armoury. It’s what you do with that information next that has the biggest impact on the entire customer experience. This is no longer your grandfather’s marketing campaign story.
In order to understand ...
How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
Gartner’s definition of big data dates back from 2001, when Doug Laney defined big data as increasing volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in and out), and variety (range of data types and sources). Since then the term ...