Big Data and Internet of Things – How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving
The IoT and 'Big Data' are the fresh thresh out technology topics in the past few years, big data, meanwhile, can be described with the cooperation of '4 Vs', i.e., volume, velocity, variety and veracity. The IoT will immensly increase ...
Data Science Skills in Demand for 2016
Big data has been the watchword for a while in IT, so it’s no surprise that data science skills are in hot demand and the job has perhaps mischievously been labelled as the ‘sexiest job in the 21st century’ by ...
Big data gets a new open-source project: Apache Arrow
Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there's yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.
The Apache Software Foundation on Wednesday launched ...
5 Reasons to Choose Parquet for Spark SQL
It is well-known that columnar storage saves both time and space when it comes to big data processing. Parquet, for example, is shown to boost Spark SQL performance by 10X on average compared to using text, thanks to low-level reader ...
The Top 5 Hadoop Distributions
A new report by Forrester Research’s big data analysts says that adopting Hadoop is “mandatory” for any organization that wishes to do advanced analytics and get actionable insights on their data.
Forrester estimates that between 60% and 73% of data that ...
Master Data and Enterprise Information Management
Take control over data assets and empower business
Berlin, Germany, 25th -27th April 2016
Data is becoming a true enterprise asset. In today’s digital age companies needs to become more real-time and agile in order to compete successfully. Thus, a firm foundation of quality ...
Big Data: Managing Wild Weather and Water
By Gaalen Engen and Marc Davis
A state of emergency was declared throughout Washington State in November in response to a series of savage storms that caused three deaths and hundreds of injuries. So catastrophic was the cumulative damage that the ...
New tools in FlyElephant and announcement of webinars
FlyElephant team wishes a Happy New Year. We started this year with an expansion of tools' list, webinars and the formation of a community around the platform.
FlyElephant is a platform that provides scientists with computing infrastructure for calculation and automates ...
6 Essential Steps to Successfully Implement Hadoop
Interest in Hadoop continues to increase as business recognize the benefits it brings to their organizations and their big data analytics practices. Recent numbers bear this out as well.
According to a recent survey from TDWI, overall Hadoop adoption by enterprises ...
IoT And Big Data – The What, Why and What Next
Ok, you’ve heard the terms bandied about - Big Data and IoT. What’s the relation? We’ll tell you. Big Data has literally been the fuel on which Internet of Things (IoT) runs on. The tech sector is catching on fast, ...