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Big data to be made little: Individuals to mine data too

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 08:29:36 +0000

A Chrome extension being developed will allow web users to choose what they want to share, and with whom, possibly altering the now Google-ized Internet landscape forever.

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The Mistakes Companies Make With Big Data

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 06:25:08 +0000

Big data has launched a boom industry in data analytics and science. To find out where this revolution is headed and how companies can get a competitive advantage, The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Blumenstein spoke with Hilary Mason, chief executive and founder of Fast Forward Labs and former chief scientist at Bitly, and Andreas Weigend, director of the Social Data Lab and former chief scientist at Amazon.com Inc. Here are edited excerpts of the discussion.

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Big Data Predictions For 2016

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 11:01:33 +0000

The hype around big data and analytics has gone through cycles over the past couple of years, starting with excitement about how much data we have and the potential for it. That moment was followed by that let-down, “now what?” feeling after organizations put the storage and tools in place and found themselves wondering what to do with it.

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5 Ways 2015 changed enterprise software forever

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 10:54:22 +0000

The past year brought big changes to the core software applications and tools that companies use every day, and some of those shifts promise to have a particularly enduring impact. Here are five ways the past year changed enterprise software for good.

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Big Data Opportunities Need Big Data Security

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:27:57 +0000

The adoption of big data analytics is rapidly growing. If you don’t get ahead of the curve, there’s big potential for big problems; but if you do plan ahead, there are big opportunities to successfully enable the business. You might be wondering what the big deal is — and what makes big data special and more challenging. The trouble is that big data analytics platforms are fueled by huge volumes of often sensitive customer, product, partner, patient and other data — which usually have insufficient data security and represent low-hanging fruit for cyber criminals.

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How Apache Kafka is greasing the wheels for big data

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:58:17 +0000

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That’s where Apache Kafka comes in. Originally developed at LinkedIn, Kafka is an open-source system for managing real-time streams of data from websites, applications and sensors.

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Solix Announces Solix Big Data Suite Standard Edition: ILM Framework Built on Hadoop

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:24:37 +0000

Solix Technologies, Inc. (http://solix.com), a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, announced today the Standard Edition of the Solix Big Data Suite.

Solix Big Data Suite Standard Edition is a free Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) framework, built on a single node cluster and packaged in a virtual environment. Solix Big Data Suite Standard Edition features Reports archiving, File Archiving and Solix Secure Search Analytics to allow users to prove their Enterprise Archiving on Hadoop use cases.

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Do Big Data Results Depend On What Data We Look At?

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:02:50 +0000

One of the greatest challenges facing the emerging world of “big data” analysis is the degree to which the results we see are dependent on the data we look at. Put another way, does big data analysis reveal “universal truths” that capture fundamentally new knowledge about society, or are all of our findings merely artifacts of the data we look at?More>>

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Google promises a Hadoop or Spark cluster in 90 seconds with Cloud Dataproc

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:53:08 +0000

Getting insights out of big data is typically neither quick nor easy, but Google is aiming to change all that with a new, managed service for Hadoop and Spark.

Cloud Dataproc, which the search giant launched into open beta on Wednesday, is a new piece of its big data portfolio that’s designed to help companies create clusters quickly, manage them easily and turn them off when they’re not needed.More>>

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Hortonworks unveils big data scorecard

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 16:52:54 +0000

At Strata + Hadoop World here yesterday, Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks unveiled a new tool called the Hortonworks Big Data Scorecard designed to help organizations develop a plan for jumpstarting big data projects.

“Hortonworks has always been committed to partnering with customers to make their big data projects as successful as possible,” Herb Cunitz, president of Hortonworks, said in a statement yesterday. “We are leveraging our expertise to simplify big data and help our customers transform into data-driven enterprises. The new Hortonworks Big Data Scorecard will accelerate our customers big data vision and greatly propel business transformation.”More>>

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