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Big Data Bits: Strata + Hadoop World Rewind
Last week was huge in the booming world of big data with vendors simultaneously chasing market share and sharing innovations on the big stage at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, Calif.
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Faking Big Data #strataconf
Sorry folks, but this shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise. Anytime a new technology or field emerges, so does a group of posers.
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Altiscale has the RX for Hadoop Headaches
Hadoop isn’t easy. Sure, there are vendors out there who will tell you that it is ... Just take this course or that exam. Work with us side-by-side as we “elephantize” your Enterprise, and presto you’re a pro. No, you’re not. Not yet, anyway.
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CMSWire's Top 10 Hits of 2013: Big Data
Yes, Big Data was a Big Buzzword in 2013. The technology and business press — and even mainstream media — got a piece of the action, churning out article after article about what Big Data means to you. And that's part of the problem.
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The End of Data Scientists and Other Predictions
We don't have a crystal ball at CMSWire — but we're curious about the future. So we’ve collected predictions from some our favorite analytics firms like Tableau, Splunk, Alteryx, Alpine Data Labs and SAP, as well as insights from the Music Industry Association and Ad Age.
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Big Data Bits: The Strata Edition - Beyond Hadoop Distributions
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends … Even though we’ve left the Strata + Hadoop World conference held in New York City last week, the notable news we didn’t report keeps buzzing in our ears, reminding us that we need to share it with you.
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Infochimps Delivers Big Data Insights Without the Heartburn #strataconf
Infochimps isn’t monkeying around with Big Data, they’re busy delivering insights to customers’ doors. “We’re the ones who let the genie out of the bottle,” says Jim Kaskade, Infochimps’ newish CEO. The genie, of course, is the one who provides strategic insights gleaned from big data, that make your
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Big Data Bits: Featuring Facebook, Apache Giraph, Continuuity, LucidWorks, Hortonworks & Infochimps
There’s always plenty of news in the Big Data world and, try as we might, we can’t cover it all; so we’re highlighting a few of the items that made us take notice and offering a wee-bit of context around it.
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CSC Buys Infochimps for Big Data, Analytics Expertise
Consolidation in the big data space continues with the announcement by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) that it has bought Infochimps, a provider of big data PaaS based in Texas. Infochimps is a relative minnow compared with CSC, but seems like CSC was quite keen on getting it.
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Infochimps Aims to Blaze a New Trail - Big Data Platform as a Service for the Enterprise #sxswi
If Infochimps’ new CEO delivers half as well as he sells, then Fortune 500 companies will be lining up to move their data -- Big Data, streaming and still -- on to the company’s Infochimps Enterprise Cloud.
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Infochimps Releases Big Data Analytics Cloud Service
Database-as-a-service platform provider Infochimps is introducing Enterprise Cloud -- a new Big Data cloud service aimed at Fortune 1000 companies having trouble harnessing data from social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to help drive their business decisions.
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SXSWI Discusses Data in the Cloud, Personal Privacy Management #swsxi
This year’s South by Southwest Interactive, SXSWI, kicked off in Austin, Texas, on Friday. Not familiar with SXSWI? Imagine being inside a real-world Twitter feed for five days and 10,000 of the people you are following decided to launch their emerging technology startup over it. Welcome to SXSWI.
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