Big Data

Intel Data Platform helps businesses unlock their big data – BetaNews

Intel Data Platform helps businesses unlock their big dataThe Intel Data Platform offers an open environment for importing, managing and analysing big data. It builds on the existing Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop and in addition a new Intel Data Platform: Analytics Toolkit creates graphical analytics and predictive modeling to help businesses uncover valuable insights from hidden relationships […]

For Actian, Big Data 2.0 is all about simplicity | #BigDataSV …

Time is the new gold standard for big data success. John Santaferraro, Vice President of Solutions & Product Marketing at Actian joins John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE, discussing the importance of rapid innovation. The co-hosts also explore the progression from Big Data 1.0 to 2.0.“It used to be you could transform yourself every five or 10 years, now you […]

Hiring criminals: Big data says go for it. – Slate

Eamon Javers tells us about a bunch of correlations people are finding as our computational power increases, including this gem for the human resources department:I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people with criminal records are good moneyball hires, who come at a salary discount that’s way out of proportion to their job performance. But the news that criminals outperform […]

Big Data is for everyone, not just data geeks #BigDataSV 2014 …

With all the huge changes assaulting us every day — cloud and social computing services like Twitter, Facebook and Google+, mobile computing, cyber bullying, NSA spying and the erosion of privacy, etc. — for most people Big Data may seem like something for the data geeks. That is a mistake. Big Data sits at the center of all the technology-driven […]

Big Data apps + cloud steal the spotlight : Strata day 2 | #BigDataSV …

The O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara is abuzz with the promise of making analytics power more accessible than ever before through new applications of Big Data. Tresata, the brainchild of former Bank of America data science chief and theCUBE regular Abhishek Mehta, is leading the way with a new software solution that runs on Apache Spark.NET 1.0 is one […]

Microsoft Hortonworks partnership will “bring big data to billions …

Eron Kelly, Microsoft’s general manager for SQL Server product marketing and John Kreisa VP Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks join John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE at the 2014 Strata Conference. Kelly and Kreisa discuss the Microsoft/Hortonworks partnership as Furrier and Vellante inquire about what makes this new collaboration unique and fruitful.Tomorrow, Microsoft will announce new contributions to the OpenSource community […]

Legacy outfit Syncsort at forefront of big data revolution …

A hopeful sign for large-scale adoption of Big Data technologies, this year’s #strataconf has attracted a number of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and executives, as well as the expected cadre of developers, interested in the new technologies that will facilitate Enterprise’s embrace of Big Data strategies.Joining Dave Vellante and John Furrier on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE was Josh Rogers, President of Syncsort. Syncsort, […]

The cloud + Big Data, a love fest : Analysis and forecasts …

Kicking off the first day of Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California, the SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon CEO David Vellante, theCUBE regular co-hosts, talked with Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor with Wikibon, discussing the new Wikibon’s 2013 Big Data Vendor Review and Market Forecast report that was released yesterday.“The report and the research are telling us that the market is growing,” stated Kelly. “The […]