1. What Can Big Data Cloud Do For You?
 Whether you’re just coming into the area, or are already a seasoned professional with big data cloud solutions, "BigDataCloud - Today!" is the place to gain unique insight into how big data problems can be solved today, from both a technical and a business perspective. This will give you a competitive edge to accelerate bringing solutions to market and gain substantia ...

Organizations as diverse as Northrop Grumman (NOC), Harvard University, Zynga, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) have filled job websites with requests for talented puppeteers and master chefs. A quick dig into the job listings reveals that these positions have nothing to do with office entertainment or gourmet meals. Instead, the companies want people who have mastered Puppet or Chef, competing softwar ...

Our resident cloud consultant provides some helpful hints as to how you can be successful with private clouds So you're thinking of building a private cloud. It seems like the right thing to do, considering that every one of your enterprise software and hardware providers has spun themselves into the space. However, the path to a truly well-designed private cloud is often misunderstood. There's a lot of mis ...

The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

Facebook engineers have tested a 64-core specialty chip from Tilera and found it more efficient for grabbing data quickly from key value stores. This test and others performed across the industry on alternatives to x86 chips may galvanize the creation of new benchmarks for the server industry as the debate of which architecture works best for webscale and cloud computing rages. The paper, issued Monday, and ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to const ...

Another study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and sponsored by AT&T, estimates that cloud computing could enable companies to save $12.3 billion off their energy bills. That translates into carbon emission savings of 85.7 million metric tons per y ...

Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data based on Google's MapReduce paper, it provides an alternative to Apache Hadoop. Daytona was created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research. It's designed to help scientists take advantage of Azure for working wit ...

BigDataCloud would be live blogging the GigaOM Structure 2011 event. Dj Das would be onsite & live – blogging with his own perspective of the action on the ground! This event is now sold out and you can watch the live video stream here About Structure 2011 Making Sense of the Real Cloud After years of questions about what cloud computing is and how it will affect IT, we’re finally starting to get answers. W ...

The Cassandra SF 2011 summit on July 11th 2011 promises to be a ‘must-go’ event for any one working with “Big Data”. The Cassandra community has grown so much in the last year, that now the organizers have a larger venue, with two rooms set aside for presentations, multiple rooms set aside for Birds of a Feather talks, committer meetups, and other small discussions. The agenda includes: Use Cases: Everyone ...