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Databricks' $140M Funding Will Drive AI, Engineering Investments
Databricks, a San Francisco-based business and customer analytics platform, will double its engineering staff, build out its analytics suite using artificial intelligence (AI), focus on specific verticals and expand globally thanks to a $140 million investment.
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Why Google Beat AWS, IBM Watson, And Others in Forrester's Insight PaaS Wave
If you’re not familiar with the term "Insight Platforms-As-A-Service," fear not, it’s new. Forrester, the term's creator, thinks Google is the lone leader in the space. In its Forrester Wave: Insight Platforms-As-A-Service, Q3 2017 report (fee charged), analyst Brian Hopkins and colleagues Srividya Sridharan, Dave Bartoletti and Sara Sjoblom, defined
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These Vendors Are Doing Big Things With Big Data
You would think we'd have big data all figured out by now. Between tools like Hadoop, Spark and Kafka, concepts like machine learning and AI, and the efforts of highly paid data scientists, that's a reasonable assumption.
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Big Data Briefs: Focus on Databricks, Basho, Teradata, MemSQL
Big data isn't the “new oil” that will make us all smarter, richer, healthier. It’s just the oil without which you cannot run a business.
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Databricks' Spark Could Light SAP's Fire
SAP HANA seems to have taken a bit of a public beating lately, namely because its creator, Vishal Sikka, and several other notable executives left the company.
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MapR Ups Its Hadoop Game with Databricks' Spark
For now, MapR seems to be sitting on the sidelines of the “My Hadoop distro is better than yours” game, and as Jack Norris, the company’s CMO puts it, “we’re concentrating on doing what’s best for our customers.
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