Ahead of next week’s #SMWF Europe we speak to Luke Moore, European sales director at Crimson Hexagon to find out about how the company is helping businesses learn more from social media conversations. Social media has long been referred to as the world’s biggest focus group and its potential for learning more about the customer has always been huge. In fact […]
What role does the cloud play in Big Data deployments today and what will the future of Big Data in the cloud look like? To understand both, we should first look at the state of the Big Data market today—and even the definition of Big Data itself.The Big Data market is growing and its growth shows no signs of slowing down. In […]
Y Combinator-backed online retailer platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt participant, 42, is today making its official debut. The company, founded only a year ago, is working to turn raw point-of-sale data into actionable insights for brick-and-mortar businesses that can help them boost their sales.This includes details about a store’s best customers or which products are top sellers, among other things.The […]
Our #BigDataSV was a smash hit this week, broadcasting live from theCUBE on SiliconANGLE.tv a host of interviews with Big Data practitioners, thought-leaders, vendors, venture capitalists, and analysts. This week’s Best of theCUBE series is a great place to start, with an awesome interview with Eron Kelly, GM of Product Marketing – Data Platform at Microsoft, and John Kreisa, VP […]
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 […]
Twitter had their first quarterly earnings report after their IPO and came out with strong revenues of $243 mn for Q4, beating the analysts’ estimates of $218 mn.And yet the stock tanked on the markets and Twitter (TWTR) lost a quarter of their market cap or close to $10 bn in value, after the results were announced!What happened? What went […]
It’s been an exciting month for the Big Data ecosystem, with Cloudera repackaging its portfolio in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to organizations of different sizes. Two emerging players also made headlines with new solutions for developing analytical applications.Announced on Monday, the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub combines the vendor’s open source distribution with a set of “advanced components” […]
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 […]
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Growing Big Data adoption is driving new use cases for gathering, processing and communicating information, as Hewlett-Packard demonstrated this week at its Barcelona conference. The technology titan took the wrapper off HP Earth Insights, a highly specialized analytics solution that lets ecologists work faster and more efficiently.The offering runs a custom dashboarding solution called the Wildlife Picture Index Analytics System […]
