10 Reasons Hadoop is Important to Business
by Angela Guess A recent article outlines ten reasons why Hadoop is important for business. The article begins, “Hadoop, the data analytics-for-huge-data-sets invention of Apache Chairman Doug Cutting...
View ArticleWho Will Control the Web of Social Data?
by Angela Guess Brian Hopkins recently wrote about spiders and elephants, metaphorically speaking. He begins, “Spiders refers to the battle for control of the webs that connect us all together. Google...
View ArticleNoSQL Job of the Day: Senior Developer – Apache Hadoop and Large Data
by Angela Guess Harmonia is looking for a Senior Developer with Apache Hadoop and Big Data experience. Responsibilities of the position include: “Take a leading role in research, design, and...
View ArticleLinked Data: Moving Towards Consumption
Earlier this month 16 out of 42 papers were accepted for the upcoming Linked Data on the Web (LDOW) 2012 Workshop in Lyon, France in April. What might be discerned from the tenor of the submissions is...
View ArticleA Better HBase with MapR
by Angela Guess Doug Henschen of Information Week reports, “There are now scores of NoSQL products on the market, but none of them have the adoption potential of Apache HBase, the NoSQL database native...
View ArticleSearch And Next-Gen Big Data Apps
Search is a fundamental, a system building block, and something that should be a critical part of enterprise architectures. That’s what Grant Ingersoll, co-founder and CTO at search, discovery and...
View ArticleAccording to Gartner, Hadoop Adoption is ‘Anaemic’
by Angela Guess The Register contributor Gavin Clarke yesterday wrote, “Forget the hype and the vendors chinning each other – Hadoop is still not ready for take-off. That’s according to Gartner, whose...
View Article20 Reasons Why Big Data Analytics is the Best Career Move
Click to learn more about author Anil Parmar. An estimated 2.7 million job postings for Data Analytics and science are projected in the United States by 2020. With more and more companies understanding...
View ArticleThe Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v3.0.0 General...
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, today...
View ArticleFour Open Source Tools to Start Your Analytics Journey
Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. As an adjunct instructor at University of Redlands, I teach several courses in the fields of business and technology. In that capacity I get to meet a lot...
View ArticleOut in the Open: Where Big Data and Open Source Coincide
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. Big Data is a term used to describe large volumes of data in disparate formats that streams into various organizational systems at high-speed. This...
View ArticleA Hybrid Approach to Leverage Intelligent Analytics
“The need to merge real-time analytical processing with on-the-spot transactional decision-making is a problem common to all industries,” noted Monte Zweben, Splice Machine’s cofounder and CEO in a...
View ArticleArcadia Data Breaks the Geospatial Analyses Barrier for IoT and Big Data
According to a recent press release, “Arcadia Data, provider of the first visual analytics software native to Apache™ Hadoop® and the cloud, today announced it has integrated the Mapbox GL vector...
View ArticleThe Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v3.2.0
According to a recent press release, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced...
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