Why Santa needs Big Data
Now, Hadoop! Now, SQL! Now, NOSQL, and Opensource! On, Cloud technology! On, Apps! On, SaaS, and Infrastructure!
Back in the days before databases, automated production lines, and GPS, one man had one of the best, if not THE best system in ...
A Quick Guide To Choosing The Right Way To Use Hadoop
By Dan Woods, The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop distributions are created ...
7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives
We know that big data is changing the way we live and work. It is changing societies and changing businesses. On this platform we have included many best practices that show concrete example of how this is happening. To illustrate ...
IBM’s Predictions: 6 Big Data Trends In 2014
A big data expert shares predictions based on feedback from IBM's enterprise clients. Is it time to update your strategy?
Businesses next year will sharpen their focus on big data and place a greater emphasis on analytics projects, data-related security and ...
Hadoop gets native R programming for big data analysis
Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data processing platform.
Revolution R Enterprise 7 (RRE 7), to be made ...
Top 10 big data stories of 2013
Big data. Anyone sick of it yet? Not the technology: the pulling together and cross-matching of disparate data on a massive scale is arguably producing more social, commercial and political change than any other innovation over the last couple of ...
Facebook turns to machine learning
Do you know anything about machine learning? Credit: newyork
Move fast and break things." That is the Facebook motto plastered all over their California headquarters to remind engineers never to stop innovating. This week, the company moved fast and broke ...
Hadoop still too slow for real-time analysis applications?
With all the buzz that Hadoop is generating in IT circles these days, it's easy to start thinking that the open source distributed processing framework can handle just about anything in big data environments. But real-time analysis involving ad hoc ...
Which Hadoop Distribution Is Right For You?
Selecting a Hadoop distribution can seem pretty daunting. But it all comes down to which platform best suits your Big Data needs.
The thought of evaluating whether a particular technology is right for your company can conjure up feelings of stress, ...
Yahoo SAMOA, Open Source Platform for Mining Big Data Streams
Yahoo SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a framework for mining big data streams and applying distributed machine learning algorithms. You can think of SAMOA as Mahout for streaming.
SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a framework for mining ...