The Big Data Conversation-Cartoon
Source: CloudTweaks
How to Manage Big Data with a Data Governance Policy
Companies, both large and small, learning to cope with big data are using a myriad of strategies from employing private and public cloud enabled technology to completely overhauling their view on support of data types, device types, and overall data ...
Confused About Big Data? Here Are 5 Things You Need To Do
It’s a funny line, but it seems positively quaint now. It’s hard to imagine young entrepreneurs these days hoping to find their fortune in resource extraction. The days of wildcat wells have been replaced by an industry of geologists and ...
Big data skills will lead to big IT jobs
How big is big data? Scratch the surface and the figures are quite astonishing. A study at the end of last year by research group IDC predicts the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes in size – that’s 45 trillion ...
7 Tips for Improving MapReduce Performance
One service that Cloudera provides for our customers is help with tuning and optimizing MapReduce jobs. Since MapReduce and HDFS are complex distributed systems that run arbitrary user code, there’s no hard and fast set of rules to achieve optimal ...
IT firms widen base with big data
Amid subdued demand for traditional information technology (IT) services offerings, Indian IT services players are betting on big data, as this is high on clients' agenda. Most IT services companies are enhancing their capabilities, either by creating platforms to process ...
IBM expands work on big data governance
IBM wants to help IT managers apply company policies to their big data analysis projects.
The company will be introducing new products and features to help organizations manage their new big data systems with the same rigor that they manage other ...
SAP inks Hadoop deals with Intel and Hortonworks
SAP has partnered with Intel and Hortonworks to resell the two companies' Hadoop offerings, as the enterprise software giant tentatively gets involved with the new fashionable data platform.
The announcement was made on Wednesday at Techcrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, and ...
Pentaho Announces New Offering for MongoDB-based Business Intelligence
Pentaho Corporation and MongoDB, Inc. today announced advanced MongoDB integration with the Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 platform, which launched today. Together these technologies provide a powerful, interactive analytical solution that meets the increasing requirements for big data in businesses today.
The ...
Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Intel on Tuesday said it was getting into the software business with its own Hadoop distribution. The move is a potential blow for startups such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR that are offering their own distributions of Hadoop, but it’s ...