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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Top downloaded papers by SAS Software on Big data in 2014
Here are most widely downloaded and shared papers by industry leader SAS Software on Big data in 2014:
• How to Use Hadoop as a Piece of the Big Data Puzzle
• State of the Art Practice with Visual Analytics
• ...
Big Data stalwart DataRPM Takes On IBM’s Watson With “Sherlock”
Much of the talk in machine learning and natural language software has been centered around the IBM supercomputer, Watson. But, DataRPM, a startup and self-described “industry pioneer in smart machine analytics for big data, thinks it’s time there was a ...
NoSQL, NewSQL, or RDBMS-How To Choose
When should you choose a NoSQL or NewSQL option versus a conventional relational database management system? Here are 10 telltale traits that will help you make the right choice.
Today's databases are not only expected to be flexible enough to handle ...
Big Data TechCon Welcomes LinkedIn to Technical Program
Announces industry keynote in addition to more than 55 how-to big data classes and tutorials
MELVILLE, N.Y., August 25, 2014 —BZ Media LLC today announced its opening keynote at Big Data TechCon, the how-to technical conference for IT professionals implementing ...