6 Issues To Consider When Planning A Big Data Project
Big data should be about solving specific problems, not just jumping on the technology bandwagon. Here are six issues to consider as you plan or refine big data projects.
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Essential big data tools for government
Big data. It’s massive. It comes in all types of formats. It’s dynamic, changing.
Government managers are looking to derive value from the mountains of data collected by their agencies to tackle a host of issues, including cybersecurity, fraud detection, crime ...
Managing Multiple Resources in Hadoop 2 with YARN
An overview of Cloudera’s contributions to YARN that help support management of multiple resources, from multi-resource scheduling to node-level enforcement
As Apache Hadoop become ubiquitous, it is becoming more common for users to run diverse sets of workloads on Hadoop, and ...
Predictive Analytics is the Next Growing Sector in Big Data Market
The theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP ...
Five ways to handle Big Data in R
Big data was one of the biggest topics on this year’s useR conference in Albacete and it is definitely one of today’s hottest buzzwords. But what defines “Big Data”? And on the practical side: How can big data be tackled ...
Big Data Bootcamp-Santa Clara Jan 24-26, 2014
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Global Big Data Conference is offering 3 day extensive bootcamp on Big Data. This is a fast paced, vendor agnostic, technical overview of the Big Data landscape. No prior knowledge of databases or programming is assumed. Big Data Bootcamp is ...
NoSQL, NewSQL and NuoDB
It seems to me that much of the drive behind NoSQL (whether No SQL or Not Only SQL) arose from a rather narrow view of the relational model and technology by web-oriented developers whose experience was constrained by the strengths ...
Hadoop 2 Pushes Big Data Further Into The Mainstream
The Big Data world is on a much firmer footing, as Apache Foundation’s Hadoop version 2 makes the platform more usable for business, and vendors are exploring possibilities to deliver easier-to-use software, according to the founder of the Hadoop movement.
Version ...
Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub
Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization’s data, not just data undergoing Hadoop MapReduce ...
Microsoft goes big data with new Hadoop Azure service
In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its new Windows Azure HDInsight service.
“I think what ...