Google Compute Engine VMs provide a fast and reliable way to run Apache Hadoop. Today, we’re making it easier to run Hadoop on Google Cloud Platform with the Preview release of the Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop that lets you focus on your data processing logic instead of on managing a cluster and file system.Diagram of Hadoop on Google […]
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Thank the U.S. National Security Agency for bringing Big Data onto the national stage. The agency’s questionable use of data mining and analysis in the name of national security raised Main Street’s awareness of Big Data like never before.
Making sense of a wellspring of unstructured […]
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) is involved in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil properties throughout the United States. Chesapeake has a market cap of $17 billion and its stock price is around $27.Many investors would like to know if Chesapeake is still a turnaround story or if it is now ready to trade in line with […]
Jeff Magnusson, manager of Data Platform Architecture at Netflix, gave a presentation at QCon SF 2013 Conference about their Data Platform as a Service. Following up to this presentation, we will try to further explain how the technology stack lies and how it helps Netflix to tackle important business decisions.Netflix has more than 30 million subscribers worldwide. Every user provides […]
Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with the talented data scientists from Cisco’s Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC) team to discuss Big Data security challenges, tools and methodologies. The following is part one of five in this series where Jisheng Wang, John Conley, and Preetham Raghunanda share how TRAC is tackling Big Data.Given the hype surrounding “Big Data,” what does that term […]
Dismal earnings numbers from Campbell Soup and a cautious profit forecast from Best Buy dragged the major indices into negative territory on Tuesday. The Dow moved away even further from the milestone level achieved on Monday. The S&P 500 incurred its first two consecutive days of losses this month. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank will […]
Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud. It’s built on Apache Lucene search engine library and provides full text search capabilities, multi-language support, a query language, support for geolocation, context aware did-you-mean suggestions, autocomplete and search snippets.Elasticsearch supports RESTful API using JSON over HTTP for all of its operations, whether it’s search, analytics […]
We produced this list as an aid to the enterprise CTO seeking information on the most capable mission-enabling infrastructure technologies. This is a companion piece to our list of the top analytical technologists on our Analyst One website. Our methodologies are at the bottom of this list.We trust you will find this list interesting and informative. Have some new technologies […]
