Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
Following major announcements from Amazon Web Services in recent weeks around data warehousing and management, Rackspace today announced new capabilities for database hosting and management. A NoSQL database as a service (DBaaS) from a ...
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Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Facebook has released source code for scheduling workloads on the Apache Hadoop data processing platform. Engineers at the ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched two new EC2 instances for applications and analytics workloads, as well as AWS Data Pipeline, a web service that allows enterprises to move data across various systems Launching the new Elastic ...
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Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis,Amazon Web Services(AWS)has introduced a storage package,called High Storage,that can offer fast access to large amounts of data. High Storage,an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)package,is ...
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A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them anonymously, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of ...
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In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more sophisticated ways to extract and transform data. ...
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During the next eight years, the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes, which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man, woman and child on Earth, according to an updated Digital Universe study released today. ...
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Computerworld-During the next eight years,the amount of digital data produced will exceed 40 zettabytes,which is the equivalent of 5,200 GB of data for every man,woman and child on Earth,according to an updated Digital Universe study ...
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Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
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IDG News Service-Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources,using a new orchestration engine called the AWS Data Pipeline. Amazon Chief Technology ...
Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured,semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture. With the arrival of its"Unified Data ...
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As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded use. This week, Cloudera and MapR both ...
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Open source"big data"technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. For ...
Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
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