SummaryWhile the recent Intel and Cloudera announcement was applauded by analysts, the market took it with a yawn.
Intel will benefit, however probably not by much, that will make a big difference in Intel’s profits.
While the sector has room to grow, there is already a […]
Higinio O. Maycotte is CEO of Umbel, a company that uses data to increase publishers’ understanding of their audiences and online advertising revenue. Knight Foundation supports Umbel through its Enterprise Fund.
Curiosity drives journalism. Questions are the foundation of the industry. And attaining knowledge for your reader, knowledge they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to gain themselves, is what makes media […]
Jamie Rodgers, vice president, Insurance Information Services, CGI, on integrating real-time driving behavior data with policy and claims records, and what new products and services can come out of it.
With usage-based insurance (UBI) now making its presence felt in Canada, the big question is how to put to work all the data it generates. Insurance Information Services (IIS) is working […]
UK-based Tesco, the world’s second-largest retailer after Walmart, has made a killing in its sector by jumping early into the use of big data, collected via loyalty cards as well as through stores and online, to figure out what its customers wanted to buy. Today, Dunnhumby, the data science group that helped Tesco with that effort, which Tesco eventually acquired, is making an acquisition of […]
Share This articleWe all know that with enough expensive servers, big companies can crunch through massive amounts of data. In some cases, like trending search reports, dedicated computing resources can even make large-scale analysis happen in realtime. Now, startup Map-D has harnessed the power of GPUs to allow the realtime analysis and visualization of huge datasets with a much smaller […]
All PostsPivotal’s New Big Data Suite Redefines the Economics of Big Data Including UNLIMITED Hadoop to EnterprisesApril 02, 2014 • Products • By Stacey SchneiderThe Big Data battleground has been an interesting market to watch lately. Centered around Apache Hadoop, and surrounded by an active ecosystem of commercial ventures and open source projects, this space is unfolding fast. Just […]
All that complexity is offset in Lewis’s telling by a collection of Hollywood-ready characters. There’s Brad Katsuyama, a kind of anti-Jordan Belfort, who first notices that something weird is happening with his trades and sets out to discover the problem—and, in a very un-Wall Street move—help others protect themselves from it. There’s Ronan Ryan, “the world’s expert at helping the […]
Want to work at Tableau Software? You might have to get an Academy Award first.FORTUNE — Most big data companies don’t recruit Hollywood types, and most weren’t co-founded by executives with three Academy Awards under their belt.Tableau Software (DATA), a Seattle-based provider of data visualization tools, is a little bit different. Founded by Pat Hanrahan, an early employee at Pixar Animation Studios, along […]
By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood. Crump is a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and a non-residential fellow with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and an adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU. Her principle focus is representing individuals challenging the lawfulness of government surveillance programs. Follow her on Twitter at @CatherineNCrump. Harwood […]
NVIDIA GPU accelerators have emerged in High-Performance Computing as an energy-efficient way to provide significant compute capability. The Green500 supercomputer list makes this clear: the top 10 supercomputers on the list feature NVIDIA GPUs. Today at the 2014 GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced a new interconnect called NVLink which enables the next step in harnessing the full potential of the […]
