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Intel Has Unveiled a Raft of New Innovations and Software Tools to Tap The Power
Nov 25, 2013Intel has unveiled a raft of new innovations and software tools to tap the power of Big Data at the Supercomputing Conference 2013 held in Denver, Colorado. At the 25th conference for the HPC community, the company revealed how the ...
Tags: Intel, Supercomputing Conference, Big Data
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Swedish Online Music Streaming Service Spotify Is to Work with Hortonworks
Sep 17, 2013Swedish online music streaming service Spotify is to work with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks as it looks to further personalise its services and improve its analytics. An early adopter of the Apache Hadoop data storage and processing ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Corporate IT Operations in Hadoop Environments Is Driving a Flurry of Vendor Activity
Jul 3, 2013The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive -- and fast growing -- data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week rolled out a beta version of an ...
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Social Network Develop Technologies to Support The Unique Types of Services
Jun 19, 2013With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
Tags: Facebook, Network Fabric, Social Network
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MapR Has Integrated The Lucidworks Search and Cloudera Released Impala SQL Search Engine
May 6, 2013Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information. Hadoop distributor MapR has integrated the LucidWorks Search into its own distribution. And Cloudera ...
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Patent Trolls Are Increasingly Becoming a Weapon to Harm or Harass Companies' Competitors
Apr 9, 2013Patent trolls are increasingly becoming a weapon some companies can use to harm or harass their competitors, according to public comments jointly submitted today to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department by lawyers for ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google, web service
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Google Will Not Sue Any User, Distributor or Developer of Open-Source Software
Apr 2, 2013Google will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked, the company said Thursday. Google began the pledge with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for ...
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Microsoft Has Released a Number of Enhancements to Windows Azure
Mar 21, 2013Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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Google Has Outfitted BigQuery with The Ability to Query Multiple Data Tables
Mar 18, 2013Hoping to lure more Apache Hadoop users to its own data analysis services, Google has outfitted BigQuery with the ability to query multiple data tables. "Joining terabyte-sized tables has traditionally been a challenging task for data ...
Tags: Google BigQuery, Hadoop users, data analysts
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SAP's HANA Becomes The Centrepiece of Software Vendor's Technology Strategy
Mar 12, 2013It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features heavily in pitches for both high-speed analytics and in support of transactional ...
Tags: SAP, HANA in-memory database, technology strategy, AWS
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Hortonworks Is Bringing The Popular Open-Source Apache Hadoop Data Processing Platform
Feb 27, 2013Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for Windows and expects to ...
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Hortonworks Launched The Popular Open-Source Apache Hadoop Data Processing Platform
Feb 27, 2013Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops, it was reported on Monday. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for ...
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The Big Data Buzzword and Industry Trend Had a Pretty Good Year Perception-Wise in 2012
Jan 25, 2013The "big data" buzzword and industry trend had a pretty good year perception-wise in 2012, but the hype may soon fade into a period of disillusionment among users, according to analyst firms Ovum and Gartner. Big data refers to the ...
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Skytap Is Now Offering Pre-Configured Cloudera Hadoop Templates
Jan 18, 2013To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud. There is a growing interest in big data using Hadoop, but to even ...
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Data Science Master's Course Will Extend The School's BI Teachings
Dec 28, 2012The rise of the data scientist,so noticeable in the past year,has found expression in a new data science graduate course at the University of Dundee. Mark Whitehorn,professor at the university,said the course will overlap with and extend ...