Google’s Calico-With Big Data You’ll Live Forever
Google’s latest business venture: Calico, or the “California Life Company,” aims to extend life by tackling aging and disease. How? Big-data analytics is the key.
On the one hand, could this be an early Google April fool?
On The Other Hand, Google ...
Improving the Big Data Toolkit
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software world. And Hadoop, the bedrock software of the fast-growing Big Data business, is ...
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 ...
First Hadoop Search Engine Launched By Cloudera
Real-time search for open source projects using Hadoop and Apache HBase. Cloudera has announced the general availability of Cloudera Search and an accompanying add-on RTS (Real-time Search) subscription. This product represents the first fully integrated search engine for interactive exploration ...
Is Little Data The Next Big Data?
Is personal quantification the next evolution of the Big Data revolution? And is our addiction to analytics leading us astray?
Three weeks ago, at approximately 10:32pm, Nike made me hit my dog in the face. Now before the ASPCA starts calling, ...
How Netflix could use Big Data to make twice as much money off you
How much would you pay for a Netflix subscription?
For some people, paying $8 a month for Netflix is a steal. Others aren’t so willing to open their wallets. Both types of consumers represent a kind of lost opportunity for Netflix ...
How to build a single-node Hadoop/R system
The best way to learn any software is to use it, and if you're new to Hadoop and want to try using Hadoop with R the process of setting up your own Hadoop cluster can be daunting (to say the ...
Univa, MapR Partner Over Enterprise-Grade Hadoop Management
Data center automation company Univa is working with MapR Technologies to integrate its Grid Engine. The partnership will allow customers to run mixed workloads for enterprise reporting and analytics using the MapR Distribution for Hadoop with the policy control management ...