Big Data-As-A-Service Is Next Big Thing
We’ve had software as a service, platform as a service and data as a service. Now, by mixing them all together and massively upscaling the amount of data involved, we’ve arrived at Big Data as a Service (or BDaaS, and ...
Hadoop update 2.7.0 Released
The Apache Hadoop community is happy to announce the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0! We want to express our gratitude to every contributor, reviewer and committer.
The Hadoop community fixed 923 JIRAs in total as part of the 2.7.0 release. Of ...
The top 3 qualities of a great data scientist
With a growing demand for efficiency and accuracy, comes a growing demand for stellar data scientists. In fact, as of March 2015, there are over 60,000 job postings for data scientists on LinkedIn, and over 250,000 people listing data science ...
5 NoSQL Predictions for 2015
2014 has been another interesting year in Big Data with long-awaited IPOs, massive fund-raising and increased awareness around the data management market. So, what does this mean for the future of Enterprise NoSQL and the impact on enterprises across industries ...
Apache Tajo brings data warehousing to Hadoop
Organizations that want to extract more intelligence from their Hadoop deployments might find help from the relatively little known Tajo open source data warehouse software, which the Apache Software Foundation has pronounced as ready for commercial use.
The new version of ...
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 ...
Making Hadoop Simple On-premises and in the Cloud
An increasing number of enterprises are either currently using or are planning to use cloud deployment models to expand their IT infrastructure for big data. We find that organizations are looking for an open and flexible platform that enables them ...
3 Big data trends for business intelligence
Big data has given businesses a window into valuable streams of information from customer purchasing habits to inventory status. However, internal data streams give only a limited picture, especially with the growth of digital business.
Three trends Gartner has identified describe ...