Microsoft Excel for Web Analytics and Big Data
No one has time to spend ages mining for Excel answers from mountains of text to quickly find and fix Analytics issues. These issues can be something like:
Finding and removing duplicate URLs
Extracting domain names from the URLs
Converting upper case URLs ...
Could Microsoft Cosmos Challenge Hadoop?
A new Microsoft data crunching framework is set to launch on the company’s Azure cloud, according to a report from Redmond pundit Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet. Dubbed Cosmos, it’s a potential competitor to both Hadoop and eventually Google’s homegrown ...
Free Ticket to Big Data/NoSQL (Cassandra) All Day Conference in Los Angeles
Cassandra Day Los Angeles 2015 - February 12th, 2015
Are you interested in big data and/or database technologies….so we wanted to let you know about our Cassandra Day LA event on Thursday, February 12, 2015. This is your chance to get ...
Free eBook-Learn About Microsoft’s Hadoop Implementation
Microsoft Press has just released a new eBook in its continuing line of free offerings. Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight presents 5 chapters and 130 pages of content covering Microsoft's foray into Big Data utilizing Apache Hadoop. HDInsight is built on ...
Microsoft goes big data with new Hadoop Azure service
In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its new Windows Azure HDInsight service.
“I think what ...
Cloud computing and the rise of big data
Cloud computing democratizes big data – any enterprise can now work with unstructured data at a huge scale.
At first glance, it isn’t obvious why the unstructured data methods of the new big data world are even necessary. Even if new ...