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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This meetup is sponsored by Zettaset. Security is the greatest challenge for the widespread adoption of Hadoop in enterprises. This meetup will discuss ways and means of how such challenges are being met with various solutions and/or products in the industry today. Industry security experts will showcase their varied experiences. This is first among the “Big Data Infra for Enterprises” series of Big Data Cl ...

I was laying awake early this morning thinking about Oracle. Back when it was starting its $20 billion buying spree of companies in 2006, analysts all said the strategy would fail. There were a lot of compelling arguments why. People said that the assets of a software company are the engineers and the engineers would go elsewhere. People argued that Oracle fundamentally didn’t know how to write good applica ...

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances. Oracle Advanced Analytics consists of Oracle R Enterprise, along with the vendor's exi ...

Healthcare will be a hot topic during the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama nearly two years ago is attacked or defended by the respective candidates and their surrogates. However, no matter who wins the White House this year, the U.S. healthcare system will be reformed, and more likely transformed, in the near future, ...

Organizations as diverse as Northrop Grumman (NOC), Harvard University, Zynga, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) have filled job websites with requests for talented puppeteers and master chefs. A quick dig into the job listings reveals that these positions have nothing to do with office entertainment or gourmet meals. Instead, the companies want people who have mastered Puppet or Chef, competing softwar ...

Third Eye is launching "Byte Sized Hadoop" classes – for as low as $125/class! These Hadoop classes will be offered byte-sized, 3 hours each, after work hours & conducted by industry veterans with a practical "from-the-trenches" approach. BigDataCloud meetup attendees have heard & met the instructors individually: Paul Baclace - presented "Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands for big data using A ...

Another study out this week has found that if companies adopt cloud computing, they can reduce the energy consumption of their IT and save money on energy bills. The report, created by research firm Verdantix and sponsored by AT&T, estimates that cloud computing could enable companies to save $12.3 billion off their energy bills. That translates into carbon emission savings of 85.7 million metric tons per y ...