AWS joins Azure and Watson in bringing machine learning to big data
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) has announced that it will soon offer machine learning as an option to customers.
The technology is the same creepy stuff that uses algorithms to recommend things that you might also like when you browse Mazon's retail ...
Apache Tajo brings data warehousing to Hadoop
Organizations that want to extract more intelligence from their Hadoop deployments might find help from the relatively little known Tajo open source data warehouse software, which the Apache Software Foundation has pronounced as ready for commercial use.
The new version of ...
The State of the Data Warehouse
Today Snowflake Computing, the cloud-based data warehouse company, released a new report commissioned by Dimensional Research. The study is a national survey of more than 315 technology and analytics professionals with responsibility for corporate data initiatives.
One of the key findings ...
4 Hot Big Data Analytics Roles in IT Industry
TimesJobs data shows the IT industry is now moving away from the generic data scientist role to specific big data-related roles to build their analytics solution portfolios.
Big data is the IT industry's new buzzword. Industries have been talking about how ...
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 ...
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 ...
MongoDB 3.0 NoSQL database integrates WiredTiger engine and Ops Manager tool
MongoDB has announced the latest release of the NoSQL database, incorporating the WiredTiger storage engine for greater performance, and introducing Ops Manager, a new application for managing MongoDB deployments.
MongoDB 3.0 is set to be generally available in March, when the ...