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How Should Hadoop Users Think About Spark?
There’s been a lot of rhetoric around Apache Spark over the last few years. Back in the fall of 2014, some even suggested — only partly in jest — that the Hadoop World conference change its name to Spark World.
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Cisco: Spark Video Conferencing Trumps Phone Calls
If you have a business phone line and a business conferencing line, Cisco wants you to sincerely ask yourself why.
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What Good Is an In-Hadoop JSON Database? #StrataHadoop
MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop World, which runs through Thursday at Javits Center in
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SAP: Pull More Value From Your Data
If you throw away another piece of data, you’re fired. No, the IT Director who uttered those words wasn’t imitating Donald Trump during his days on the Apprentice and we don’t think he was actually going to hand anyone a pink slip either.
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Databricks Opens Its Spark(ly) Gates to All
At the Hadoop World conference in New York City last fall, much of the excitement was around another big data crunching technology —Apache Spark. Full house with people standing during Spark talk. Next year it can be called Spark-World. #hadoopworld #strataconf pic.twitter.com/cBjJ934OYC — Andre Luckow (@drelu) October 17, 2014
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A Signpost on the Road to Marketing Automation
As technologies mature, two nice things typically happen: the price falls and capabilities rise. Soon almost everyone can take advantage of it. Consider cell phones. They were expensive, bulky status symbols when first marketed, but 4.55 billion people will use better, cheaper phones this year, according to eMarketer. Computers?
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Adatao's Big Dreams for Big Data
OK, maybe not rich, but I could foot the bill for a pretty nice dinner. Big promises and big ambitions aren’t a bad thing.
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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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Big Data Bits: The Land of Opportunity Is Getting Crowded
“I hope it’s not big data,” one of them said -- I think it may have been Om Malik. It seemed as if the term was being used “temporarily” until someone came up with something better. Needless to say, it stuck.
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Awards for Sustainable Designs with a Spark
There's a new competition in town that seeks to award design and its impact on community. The Spark Awards, entering its second year, is focused on designed change. Change for the better: studied, researched, cognizant of criteria like sustainability, suitability, context, inventiveness, process, universality—and yes, beauty. The Spark Design Awards 2008 Competition is looking for designers,
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