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” […]
The NASDAQ 100 (NDX) is down 0.48% mostly because of concerns over the ability of industry leaders, like Intel (INTC), to maintain growth as the PC industry slows down.Intel (INTC) stock was down after the company reported mixed earnings and provided flat guidance. Currently, the share price is down 4.35%.Semiconductors & EquipmentiShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector (SOXX): -0.48%Overall, semiconductor stocks […]
RENCI Researchers and Partners Help Plan Big Data Conference
Published: January 8, 2014 RENCI staff and partners involved in the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) will play a major role in planning the The Second IEEE/ASA International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing. The conference, called BigDataScience, will be held at Stanford University May […]
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 […]
It appears that the “Santa Rally” is in full swing, and the place to be this holiday season is in Internet Software & Services stocks.
Stocks like Yahoo!, Google, Shutterstock, and Pandora are all exhibiting considerable strength heading into the end of the year. A quick glance at the First Trust DJ Internet Index Fund shows that internet stocks are what’s hot […]
The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better ways to perform real-time data processing by using cheap commodity hardware in clusters to spread data and then retrieve it for analysis. Customers are building data hubs that use Hadoop with data analytics on […]
My friends on Wall Street and Sand Hill Road will likely place a number of bets on big data security analytics in 2014. Good strategy as this market category should get loads of hype and visibility while vendor sales managers build a very healthy sales pipelines by March. Yup, there should be plenty of opportunities for big data security […]
Repost from Forbes article by John FurrierEvolving quickly alongside today’s business demands, the data scientist profession is faced with the challenges of interdisciplinary rarity. And the job pool is struggling to keep up. Just as we’re beginning to put Big Data in its place, its human counterpart seeks definition within the modern enterprise.Can the data scientist keep up with today’s growing data […]
When it comes to Big Data, it’s “one thing to be able to query it, but it’s another thing to be able to actually ask that data meaningful questions,” according to Revolution Analytics head of marketing and community David Smith. The executive dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent Big Data NYC 2013 summit to discuss how his firm is helping […]
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