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Big Data Deals: Accenture Teams Up With Hortonworks, Capgemini …

Competition for big data services is heating up as solution provider powerhouses Accenture and Capgemini made simultaneous moves Tuesday, each unveiling a partnership with a prominent enterprise big data management platform provider.Accenture, No. 3 on CRN’s 2014 Solution Provider 500 list, said it had entered into an alliance with Hortonworks, a distributor of the open-source Apache Hadoop data platform. Capgemini, […]

RapidMiner acquires big data analytics company Radoop …

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Cambridge-based predictive analytics company RapidMiner announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Radoop, an analytics company that optimizes the big data platform known as Hadoop.
Prior to today’s move, RapidMiner already had an existing partnership with the company, incorporating Radoop’s enterprise-geared big data analytics products into RapidMiner’s suite of predictive analytics offerings. With the acquisition, more of Radoop’s Hadoop tools can […]

What It's Like Working At A Red-Hot Big Data Startup – ReadWrite

Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase this year, but it’s nothing compared to how much money will flow into Big Data. And for employees at those companies, more money is certainly a good thing.
As a new IDC report reveals, spending in the Big Data market will reach $32.4 billion by 2017, or nearly six times the growth rate of […]

The state of Big Data : Trends in the trenches | #BigDataSV …

These past couple of weeks have been busy for theCUBE, with a continuous stream of new and repeat guests making appearances during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV event at the Hilton Santa Clara and an equally packed agenda over at the O’Reilly Strata Conference across the street. Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s third annual Big Data Vendor […]

The future of big data: opensource v. proprietary |#BigDataSV …

In last week’s companion to SiliconANGLE’s #BigDataNYC, theCUBE broadcast live from Silicon Valley, highlighting the ongoing maturity of Big Data for 2014 and beyond. John Furrier welcomed theCUBE alumni Bruno Aziza and Rishi Yadev for one of the more interesting conversations centering on the method and business model that will further advance the adoption of Big Data in the Enterprise.Representing […]

Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop distros, cloud analytics and …

This week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference saw the usual slew of Big Data announcements from around the industry, but a handful of vendors managed to stand out from the crowd despite the overwhelming buzz. The first is Hadoop distributor MapR, which unleashed a string of new and updated products on day 1 of the Santa Clara event.The most notable addition to […]

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 […]