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AtScale Benchmarks SQL-To-Hadoop Tools

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:32:51 +0000

AtScale, which offers software to enable traditional business intelligence tools to query the big data stored in Hadoop, has released a new SQL-to-Hadoop benchmark that shows which engines work best for which tasks.

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Big Data and Internet of Things – How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:17:37 +0000

The IoT and ‘Big Data’ are the fresh thresh out technology topics in the past few years, big data, meanwhile, can be described with the cooperation of ‘4 Vs’, i.e., volume, velocity, variety and veracity. The IoT will immensly increase the amount of data on hand for interpretation by all the methods of an organization. However, there are huge limitations to overcome earlier than the expertise advantages are thoroughly realized. The IoT and big data are certainly intimately related: billions of internet-connected ‘things’ will, by definition, generate giant amounts of data.

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Big data and creativity: What we can learn from ‘House of Cards’

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:12:09 +0000

Data and creativity can work really well together. Don’t believe me? On February 1, 2013, a TV series called House of Cards debuted on the video streaming service Netflix. It proved an immediate hit. Two years later, it has a nine out of 10 rating from more than 275,000 reviewers. Those numbers place it in the same category as Avatar and The Sopranos, but this success, some said, was guaranteed in advance. Why? Netflix had used all the Big Data it collected on its viewers to determine what they might like to see. In other words, data inspired the creative direction.

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Big Data For Big Cities: The Civic Benefits Of Google Street View And Yelp

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:45:24 +0000

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure things with imperfect data in information-poor environments,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael Luca. That may be about to change. Thanks to the Internet, mobile apps, and a wide range of useful programs online, residents add to the pool of information with every keystroke they make on their computer or smartphone. In addition, cities are expanding their own data-gathering and crunching capabilities through advancements like sensor networks and sophisticated modeling software.

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The challenge of saving lives with ‘big data’

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:14:01 +0000

Every day, more data about our lives is being generated than ever before. When it comes to saving lives, the bigger the data the better – but what to do with it all? Ninety per cent of the data in the world has been created in the past two years alone, experts estimate – and the reason for that is technological innovation.

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Tableau leads Puget Sound region’s big data industry

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:05:27 +0000

Tableau Software Inc. (NYSE: DATA) had a rough week last week when the big data company’s shares fell 50 percent after the company’s earning’s report spooked investors, but the tech firm earned the top spot on the Puget Sound Business Journal ‘ s list of the largest Seattle-area big data companies. The list ranked companies by total employment, which Tableau has steadily been growing since its inception in Seattle in 2004.

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Looker brings business analytics to big data

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 06:31:47 +0000

We hear a lot about big data, but collecting lots of information is of no use unless you’re able to get some practical benefit from it. Business intelligence platform Looker is expanding its support for big data with new products supporting SQL query engines Presto and Spark as well as updates elsewhere. Looker allows enterprises to describe, define and analyze data where it resides, eliminating the time, expertise, and the cost burdens of moving the data.

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Solix Joins the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program and Achieves HDP Certification

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 06:44:15 +0000

Solix Technologies, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, announced that it has joined the Hortonworks® Technology Partner Program and has successfully completed required integration testing, thereby achieving Hortonworks’ Certification for the Solix Big Data Suite. Solix will integrate the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDPTM) with the Solix Big Data Suite to enable Enterprise Archiving on Apache Hadoop. Solix’s customers can now benefit from enhanced integration with Apache™ Hadoop® to improve enterprise application performance dramatically reduce operational cost and position enterprise data for advanced analytics.

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10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2016

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:33:21 +0000

Heading into 2016, the business intelligence (BI) landscape is one very much in flux. Big Data, cloud services, predictive analytics, and data science are continually innovating spaces that each feed into BI, constantly changing the role it plays within enterprises and a growing number of small to midsize businesses (SMBs).

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IoT And Big Data – The What, Why and What Next

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:25:24 +0000

Ok, you’ve heard the terms bandied about – Big Data and IoT. What’s the relation? We’ll tell you. Big Data has literally been the fuel on which Internet of Things (IoT) runs on. The tech sector is catching on fast, leveraging both Big Data and IoT to get a foot in. Add cloud computing to the mix, and you get to see what the future of technology is going to be. So what exactly is Big Data, what is IoT and why are so many big-name investors and product companies panting after them? We’ll tell you.

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