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MapR Rolls Hadoop Migration ‘Easy Button’
MapR Technologies Inc. rolled out a migration service for its Hadoop distribution that targets what it says is growing demand for moving big data production installations to its converged ...Full Article
Nielsen and Intel Migrate HPC Efficiency and Data Analytics to Big Data
Nielsen has collaborated with Intel to migrate important pieces of HPC technology into Nielsen’s big-data analytic workflows including MPI, mature numerical libraries from NAG (the Numerical Algorithms Group), as ...Full Article
Big Data at Netflix: Testing, Testing, Testing…
Netflix is a company riding, you could say driving, the streaming internet video wave. Much of that wave is founded on Open Source big data analytics in the cloud ...Full Article
Cloud Platforms Help Wrangle Trader Data
A new data-as-a-service platform targeting high-frequency traders adds momentum to the growing trend toward combining cloud-based computing with precise market data. In this case, a widely used time-sensitive data ...Full Article
Data Analytics Drives New Fan-Team Relationship for NBA’s Orlando Magic
Short of shooting three-pointers and grabbing rebounds, advanced data analytics has taken on a pivotal role for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association, driving nearly every aspect ...Full Article
Spreading Spark Enterprise-wide
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to ...Full Article
Using Automated Data Analytics and IoT to Enhance Shop Floor Productivity Sponsored Content by Numascale
Data from networked devices — the Internet of Things (IoT) — is beginning to flow from the manufacturing floor to the data center. This IoT data provides an easier, ...Full Article
IBM Bluemix Adds Apache Kafka Messaging
Cloud vendors continue to add a range of open-source development tools to their platforms. The latest example comes from IBM, which has steadily been building up the toolbox on ...Full Article
In-Memory Platform Targets Real-Time Data
Querying real-time data on a massive scale remains a huge infrastructure hurdle that is increasingly being addressed by in-memory data grids. Hazelcast Inc., an in-memory computing vendor and partner ...Full Article
