This is just amazing – the kind of growth we have seen at BigDataCloud, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the help & support from all of you, BigDataCloud readers/members. Thanks to all of you for making it happen! For the meetup on this Thursday, September 8th, for the first time, we are having an industry track. We would be looking at various Big Data solutions as practiced in sprawling indus ...

IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire i2, a maker of intelligence analytics tools for crime and fraud prevention. IBM has announced an agreement to acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients in the public and private sectors address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. i2, with more than 4,500 customers in 150 countri ...

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows. The report is based on responses from 325 IT managers, business users and consultants at small, medium and large companies. Slightly more than a third of the respondents said they are currently running some ...

O’Reilly Strata New York 2011 is part of a week-long series of data-driven events in New York this September 19-23, which includes: Strata Jumpstart, 9/19, New York Marriott Marquis - A daylong crash course for managers, strategists, and entrepreneurs on how to manage the data deluge that's transforming traditional business practices. Strata Summit, 9/20-9/21, New York Marriott Marquis - Two days on the ess ...

BigDataCloud’s theme of “Hadoop Powered Predictions & Recommendations Engines” attracted over 100 people to the meetup last night, sponsored by LexisNexis & ThirdEyeCloud. The attendees thronged the LexisNexis’s booth about its newly debuted HPCC Systems & got an understanding of how its Hadoop alternative can actually solve “Big Data” challenges in enterprises. The attendees also had a chance to “meet & gr ...

Looks like BigDataCloud's meetup tomorrow would be our biggest ever yet! We have more than 150+ signups from various sources. For the first time, the BigDataCloud meetup would be sponsored. Our sponsors are: 1. LexisNexis HPCC Systems from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to solve big data problems. As an alternative to Hadoop, HP ...

Hadoop technologies have started to mature and many of us are now tasked at implementing Hadoop MapReduce based solutions at our respective organizations. From our own practical experiences, we can tell that the going is not going to be as smooth as you might have expected. That’s what peaked our interest in this webinar by Platform Computing: Top Issues IT faces with Hadoop MapReduce This webinar claims th ...

New to the Open Source Conference this year is OSCON Data, for developers pioneering the evolving architectures and tools to manage data. See how Hadoop is used to optimize scalability and reliability at Yahoo. Find out how Facebook utilizes HBase to manage real-time messaging. Why Netflix moved from relational DBs to NoSQL cloud systems for personalized movie choosing. The in-depth sessions at OSCON Data, ...

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 ...

We are witnessing stupendous demand for Big Data & Cloud professionals while on the other hand, data centric professionals, who are scarce to begin with, don’t have a dedicated job board to go to. Thus supporting this need of both employers and professionals, we decided to open up a job board on BigDataCloud.com. Employers can post their Big Data & Cloud jobs while professionals can upload their resumes. Fo ...