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 ...

Hadoop, the data analytics-for-huge-data-sets invention of Apache Chairman Doug Cutting that found its original home at Yahoo, made some big news this week at the fifth annual Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. First, it was revealed that Hadoop officially—but not "spiritually"—will break away from Yahoo and be shepherded by a new VC-funded company called Hortonworks, named after the Dr. Seuss elephant ch ...

Download a full-length movie on your computer and you'll need about 700 megabytes of space. Now multiply that digital mass by 2.7 trillion. That's roughly how much digital data the world will spit out this year -- a mind-boggling pile of real-time information, which, when processed and analyzed, holds the key to faster service at retailers, better customer care at banks and speedier diagnosis when you visit ...

Mu Sigma, a startup that provides ‘decision sciences’ and analytics services to help companies make business decisions based on ‘big data’, has secured $25 million in Series C financing from Sequoia Capital. Mu Sigma in a press statement says it currently employs some 1,200 analysts (and growing), mostly based in India, in an effort to build the world’s “largest applied math lab”. Shailendra Singh, Managing ...

WAN-optimization startup Infineta has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round for its product that speeds traffic flows between data centers and optimizes bandwidth utilization. The latest investment comes from Rembrandt Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners, and the company has now raised $30 million in two rounds. Unlike many WAN-optimization products that speed traffic ...

Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or "big data" processing, the company announced Monday. The 9.1 version of Informatica's platform features a connector to the Hadoop file system (HDFS), allowing customers to move data in and out of Hadoop clusters. While the Hadoop project has its roots in Web companies, having been led b ...

For the past decade, Apple has treated the PC as the central digital hub which managed and stored all of your digital music, photos, videos, and documents. But managing your own digital hub no longer makes sense. “It worked for the better part of 10 years,” says Steve Jobs, “But it has broken down in the past few years.” When iOS 5 is released this fall, it will move the digital hub online with iCloud. Toda ...

When your relational database takes longer to process your data than to collect it, it's time to call in big data technology, said panelists at Interop. Not everyone is sure whether they have big data or not, or whether they need a NoSQL system to handle it. One way to find out, said one adopter of a NoSQL approach, is to ask yourself whether it is taking you longer to process your data than it did to colle ...

Most data processing tasks with Hadoop require multiple Hadoop jobs with dependencies between them. The dependency arises out of the need for one job to use the output for another job. The dependency between Hadoop jobs can be expressed as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), where each node represents a Hadoop job. DAG is useful for modelling relationship between entities that have partial ordering. The depende ...

We have an excellent round of speakers & topics for Big Data Cloud’s Monthly June 3rd Meetup: Session 1: Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands for big data using AWS Topics Covered: The tradeoffs of storage on S3, EBS, and HDFS Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands Latencies, Prices, and stretchy clusters From: 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm Speaker: Paul Baclace Bio: Paul is a veteran Software Engineer of 9+ s ...