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 ...

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 ...

Services is going to play a huge role in the ultimate success (or failure) of wide-spread adoption of Hadoop and related Big Data technologies by “mainstream” enterprises. The question is: Will Big Data services be delivered by commercial Hadoop vendors like Cloudera and Hortonworks as part of their value-add to the open source framework, or will a separate market of third-party services providers and consu ...

The ability to analyze enormous amounts of data and use that to better target an ad, make a new drug or any number of other lofty goals is talked about constantly, but what about harnessing Hadoop for the rest of us? Something as simple as figuring out when the best time to schedule a meeting and get everyone to attend or let a regional manager select what inventory to order can have huge boosts for busines ...

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 ...

As Big Data and real-time insights are becoming significant for enterprises around the world, we can see a lot of developments going around in this domain. Recently, IBM unveiled new software and services to help clients more effectively gain competitive insight, optimize infrastructure and better manage resources to address Internet-scale data. The company has announced a whopping investment of $100 millio ...

On the same day that IBM passed Microsoft in market cap, Big Blue showed how it will ride the growth of big data to continue its momentum. IBM announced a new $100 million investment for future data analytics along with new services and software aimed at helping improve data analysis and new services for IT professionals. The news, shared at an event at its Watson Research Center, highlights the work IBM ha ...

IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this turned out to be accurate. Irrespective of the numbers in the survey results, one thing is clear. Enterprises are embra ...

Millions of tweets run through Twitter. It's the poster child for big data on the Web. To get data out of Twitter and use it to track sentiment requires tools with considerable processing and computational capabilities. BigSheets is a tool created by IBM that takes terabytes or even petabytes of Web data and turns it into information that provides business intelligence. The tool can be used for structured o ...

Aster Data, a market leader in big data management and advanced analytics, today announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C round of financing led by both new and existing investors. The company will use the new funding to accelerate growth, scale operations, and expand its global market share in the $20 billion database market -- a market that is experiencing rapid growth as a result of both the e ...