Intel today announced that it is joining the Hadoop ecosystem in a permanent way that will accelerate adoption of Hadoop by the broader enterprise market. While the news that Intel is going to offer an distribution that has been extended with features for security and improved performance is interesting enough, Intel’s arrival illustrates some broader trends at play in the world of Hadoop, namely that: Hado ...

Network World — OK, lots of interesting stuff for you this week. First up, LinkedIn has open sourced a system called Databus, a real-time database change capture system that provides a "timeline-consistent stream of change capture events ... grouped in transactions, in source commit order." This code has been in use inside LinkedIn since 2011 where they use it to "propagate profile, connection, company upda ...

Infosys launches BigDataEdge: New Platform Develops Enterprise Insights up to Eight Times Faster, Fosters Near Real-Time Decisions and Actions New York, February 20, 2013: Infosys today announced the launch of BigDataEdge to radically simplify the complex task of analyzing Big Data to discover relevant information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights from vast amounts of structured and ...

Intel, a company famous for its computer processing hardware, has jumped into the Hadoop software business, asserting that it wants to spur growth of big data analytics deployments in large data centers Data Informed reported. Intel announced plans on Feb. 26 to make the third version of its distribution of Hadoop and its accompanying Intel Manager for Apache Hadoop software available globally in the second ...

EMC on Monday rolled out its own distribution of Hadoop in a move that integrates the open source big data software directly with its Greenplum intellectual property. The aim: Take on Cloudera. The distribution, called Pivotal HD, is notable because it puts EMC in competition with Cloudera, which has a bevy of partners and is often seen as the Red Hat of big data. Many data warehousing players have built Ha ...

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In 1905, Albert Einstein derived that light was composed of particles by fitting his theory to just a handful of data points. This discovery changed our understanding of basic physics and helped usher in a new era of quantum mechanics. Today, scientists often need to interpret much larger data sets to drive discoveries. A little more than a decade ago, the first sequencing of a human genome cost $100 millio ...

Now that Apache Hadoop is seven years old, use-case patterns for Big Data have emerged. In this post, I’m going to describe the three main ones (reflected in the post’s title) that we see across Cloudera’s growing customer base. Transformation Transformations (T, for short) are a fundamental part of BI systems: They are the process through which data is converted from a source format (which can be relationa ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 11, 2013 — More than 75 percent of midsize to large businesses are implementing big data-related solutions within the next 12 months — with customer care, marketing and sales departments increasingly driving demand, according to new Microsoft Corp. research released today. via Customers Rapidly Adopting Big Data Solutions — Driven By Marketing, Sales and More — Reports New Microsoft Re ...

There's a lot more to Microsoft's big data strategy than a Hadoop partnership with Hortonworks. In fact, Hadoop is just the beginning of what Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell describes as "an information production line." You don't hear much about Microsoft in the big data market, but the company wants the world to know it has big plans. In fact, it's living big data through its Bing search engine, ...