Third Eye is pleased to announce 5 new Big Data classes for April 2013. These classes cover the whole gamut of the educational needs for professionals to get into the Big Data marketplace. We have classes for complete beginners or those who just want to know about it to complete end-to-end solutions build using various Big Data technologies. April 27th 2013 classes: Hive – Administration & HiveQL Analyt ...
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"Big Data Cloud" is going places – we are now 2700+ members strong, a not-for-profit organization and are announcing our next whole day event on June 7th 2013 named "Big Data Cloud Today!". The whole day event will focus on getting real with Big Data. No fluff, no hand waving, no jargon; just the straight facts about Big Data as it applies to businesses worldwide today. The sessions during the event will gl ...
Read more ›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 ...
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Dear Members, We are in the midst of a Strata fever! Everyone is talking about what are they going to do/present/demo at the Strata. The enthusiasm is very infectious. For those, who have not yet gotten a chance to register for the Strata, we have a discount code of 20% for you, thanks to our gracious partners at O'Rielly. Just go to this page, use the code “USRG” and mention “Big Data Cloud” as the group. ...
Read more ›The National Basketball Association (NBA) and SAP on Friday announced NBA.com/stats, a destination on NBA.com that will enable fans to analyze statistics from the latest games and back to the league's founding in 1946. The analysis engine behind the scenes is SAP's Hana database, which was chosen for its ability to quickly slice and dice the data entirely in memory. "We knew traditional data warehouse metho ...
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This is an interview of Mike Stonebraker taken by Aparajeeta Das of Big Data Cloud, when he presented at Big Data Cloud's meetup on Jan 29th in the Bay area. ...
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In-memory analytics, and databases, are reaching a disruptive tipping point. Why? Why now? How can enterprise IT put them to use effectively? If you are looking for the coolest IT trend for 2012, and a hot topic within that, it is an easy bet that ‘Big Data’ and ‘In-memory Analytics/DBs’ respectively could vie for the honors. By the same token, with any such attention and momentum comes a level of skepticis ...
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When was the last time you felt you were taking a flight and getting an aerial view of the entire data landscape? And I don’t mean just the current fad of most-used glamorous word “Big Data”, but also the evolution of database systems since the 60s (CODASYL et al). For those who could not make it to the VOLTDB event, they apparently missed out a $5000.00 event that had Michael and team taking us on this fli ...
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One of the great marketers of all time - Alfred Sloan, the management expert who built General Motors during the early 20th century, structured his stratagem so that consumers felt they were always aspiring up to the next brand from General Motors. At automobile shows, for instance, there was always a tantalizing show of technologies and features on next year's models so that consumers had a hunch that if t ...
Read more ›Zettaset Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding Led by HighBar Partners for Big Data Management and Security MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Jan 16, 2013 – Zettaset, the leader in secure Big Data management, announced today that it has closed a $10 million Series B financing round led by HighBar Partners, with additional participation from strategic investor Brocade and Series A investors DFJ and Epic Ventures. John Ki ...
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