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 ...

Apache Flink: Possible replacement for Hadoop?

Earlier this week, Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest Top Level Project (TLP), Flink. FlinkĀ is just one of the many data processing tools that have emerged since the Java-based distributed computing platform Hadoop has increased adoption in the enterprise space. Flink is ...

HP Unveils Vertica for SQL on Hadoop

Hewlett-Packard is building a bridge between traditional SQL database analytics and Big Data on Hadoop systems. The result isĀ HP VerticaĀ for SQL on Hadoop. HP officially unveiled the new offering today -- though reports about the offering (previously code-namedĀ Dragline) surfaced in May ...

120 Companies Hiring Hadoop Developers

There has been a consistent growth in the demand for people who know Big Data, Hadoop and related technologies. Demand is basically coming from two sectors, one is where data processing environment is already mature like Data warehousing, Data Integration ...

Data Science ā€“Whatā€™s the big deal about it?

Thomas Davenport, an American academic and publisher for Harvard Business Review, once said that Data Scientist is ā€œthe Sexiest Job of the 21st Centuryā€. But why is there such a big hype and mythos about Data Scientists and Data Science? The ...

Why Extended Attributes are Coming to HDFS

Extended attributes in HDFS will facilitate at-rest encryption for Project Rhino, but they have many other uses, too. Many mainstream Linux filesystems implement extended attributes, which let you associate metadata with a file or directory beyond common ā€œfixedā€ attributes like filesize, ...
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