A3Cube Launches, Promising Faster Networking for HPC and Big Data
February 25th, 2014
By: John Rath
The home page of networking startup A3Cube.
Silicon Valley startup A3Cube emerged from stealth mode today, and is looking to introduce a dramatic shift in network architecture. The company is backed by five years of research and development, and has been in business for a little over a […]
Big Data, as the name implies, relates to very large sets of data collected through free or commercial services on the internet.
This massive amount of data arises from sensors, posts to social networking sites, digital […]
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Should We Really Automate Stock Trading?
Written by Lazy ManWhen I was seven years old, I wrote my first computer program. It made the computer count from 1 to 10 and print out the numbers. Okay, it wasn’t like Bill Gates was going to […]
We put in a good-citizen call to the SEC the other day.“There’s a massive scheme to manipulate stock prices,” we told the friendly agent.“I have to tell you that your call is being monitored so that we can better serve the public,” he replied.“Oh, don’t worry about that. The NSA is tapping our call anyway.”“Are you talking about a specific […]
Shanky’s Technical Analysis and Market Commentary: Open Weekend Post 01/11-12/14 SPX /ES
Open Weekend Post 01/11-12/14 SPX /ES
You know the drill, share the love and the knowledge. I’ll be updating some charts thanks to RC digging into the chartbook deeper than anyone is really supposed to. I’ll be doing some spring cleaning in there as well so some things […]
What’s next for Big Data? Maybe a little thinning down of the industry and a little more focus.In fact, it may be underway. Google Trends shows searches of the term “Big Data” peaked in October, ending a nearly ceaseless climb that began three years earlier. Google doesn’t offer absolute numbers, but in that time there was a hundredfold increase in […]
IBM Speeds Big Data File Transfers with Aspera Acquisition
December 20th, 2013
By: John Rath
IBM announced an agreement to acquire Emeryville, California-based Aspera. Aspera’s technology helps companies securely speed the movement of massive data files around the world. The patented fasp technology from Aspera overcomes inherent bottlenecks in broadband wide area networks that slow the transfer of extremely large files, such as […]
Datameer Secures $19 Million for Big Data Analytics
December 20th, 2013
By: John Rath
Big data analytics firm Datameer raises $19 million to grow the company, DataOn becomes certified to take advantage of the Storage Spaces feature on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, and Panzura helps Mead & Hunt offload storage to the cloud.
Datameer raises $19 million. Big data analytics company Datameer […]
Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in collaboration with the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program hosted Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships. The event was a progress report of sorts on the Obama Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” announced in 2012.OSTP Director John Holdren opened the event stressing the […]
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance, Adds Cloudera
November 13th, 2013
By: John Rath
Oracle gives a storage and Cloudera boost to its big data appliance, Alcatel-Lucent helps uncover mobile analytics, and CA ERwin bridges the big data gap in the enterprise.
Oracle Boosts Big Data Appliance
Oracle (ORCL) announced that Big Data Appliance X4-2 is now available, providing enterprises with a comprehensive and secure engineered […]
