Microsoft has extended its Azure data services with real-time analytics and machine-learning capabilities, the company announced at Strata + Hadoop World in New York City. Azure HDInsight is getting enhanced analytics capabilities for use with Apache Hadoop, so companies can gain knowledge of new opportunities, according to a blog post by T.K. Rengarajan, corporate vice … continue reading
Cloudera releases Cloudera Enterprise 5.2, Impala 2.0, Cloudera Director product and Cloudera Accelerator Program Cloudera used the Strata stage to unveil a slew of new products, programs and updates. The Apache Hadoop software provider released version 5.2 of Cloudera Enterprise, its data analytics management solution for Hadoop, with several security advancements including simple key management, … continue reading
Microsoft announces Skype Qik group video messaging app Microsoft is making a play for mobile video messaging with Skype Qik, its new group messaging app available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Kik, the original streaming app acquired by Microsoft several years ago, has been rolled into the new Skype Qik app to compete with … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced an initiative to integrate Apache Drill, which provides instant, self-service data exploration across multiple data sources, with Apache Spark, the in-memory processing framework that provides speed, programming ease and real-time processing advantages. “The MapR initiative to integrate Apache Drill with Apache Spark’s … continue reading
What worked in the past may not work in the present. That’s certainly true for how I, and many of my colleagues in the industry, have looked at databases. As a software engineer and database architect by trade, I see clear analogies of how the software and database communities came to realize that traditional approaches … continue reading
The GitHub Student Developer Pack GitHub has partnered with a host of commercial and open-source platforms to release the GitHub Student Developer Pack. The developer pack provides students with free access to developer tools. “There’s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive,” John Britton, education liaison … continue reading
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Couchbase, Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced general availability of the Couchbase Hadoop Connector for Cloudera Enterprise 5. This new integration simplifies the development and management of big data infrastructure in the enterprise. “Our partnership with Cloudera brings the best enterprise class big data management technologies – NoSQL and … continue reading
Twitter invests in MIT laboratory Twitter is giving the MIT Media Lab US$10 million to create the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM). The laboratory is a part of a five-year initiative to develop new technologies based on semantic and social patterns across mass media, social media, data streams and digital content. The LSM will explore … continue reading
Data is the big thing in business these days. Big Data. Information that is gathered by the organization, retrieved from a Web service, or collected from social media can create big problems regarding the way your applications perform. More and more enterprises today are looking to leverage the cloud for all the benefits it brings. … continue reading
Datameer, the only end-to-end big data analytics application for the Hadoop ecosystem, today introduced Datameer 5.0 with Smart Execution, a new patent-pending technology that intelligently and dynamically selects the best-of-breed compute framework at each step in the big data analytics process. Datameer is transforming the analytics process with its new Smart Execution engine by examining … continue reading
Syncfusion, Inc., a developer solutions company, today announced the release of the Syncfusion Big Data Platform, a suite of tools and frameworks that simplify managing large data sets for Windows developers. The Syncfusion Big Data Platform provides all the software commonly required for collecting, managing, and querying large stores of data. With just one click, … continue reading
You’ve gotta read “Data Divination: Big Data Strategies,” Pam Baker’s new book about Big Data. Actually, let me change my recommendation. If you are a techie and you are looking for suggestions on how to configure your Hadoop installation or optimize the storage throughput in your NAS array, this isn’t the book for you. Rather, … continue reading
