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Reducing Risk and Costs of Downtime in Petabyte-scale Environments
Modern scale-out design is necessary for a multi-petabyte storage infrastructure that needs high uptime, performance, and reasonable costs.
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Between “Mayhem” and “Managed”: The Self-Service Sweet Spot for Analysis in a Data Lake
The popularity of the data lake architecture is rapidly growing. However, deriving value from the data lake, whether for data visualization, discovery…
Mode raises $2M and opens ‘GitHub for data’ to the public
Mode is trying to do for data scientists and analysts what GitHub did for developers by giving them a place where they can find, collaborate and work on data. Formation8 led the new round, which also included Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian.
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Making Decisions While They Matter: The Importance of Real-time Big Data
Data-driven decision-making is a popular and worthwhile goal, but few infrastructures are truly up to the task of supporting real-time data. The…
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In-Q-Tel boosts data-analysis prowess with RedOwl funding
Intelligence agencies are about to get a boost in their data analytics savvy now that In-Q-Tel has formed a partnership with RedOwl Analytics, which finds anomalies in large piles of data.
Analytics startups sweep the field in IBM contest
Nine out of the nine finalists for IBM’s Global Entrepreneur of the Year title are analytics startups. That’s either an anomaly or proof that analytics is hot. The winners will converge on San Francisco next week to meet with IBM and venture capital firms.
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NewNet 2012: companies and technologies set to disrupt
Don’t expect the pace of change in web technologies to slow down in 2012. The web is far from dead. Social media may have anointed one huge player in Facebook, but even if there is little room for a start-from-scratch general-purpose social network, there are several companies creating useful alternative social graphs. Companies can leverage key technologies and trends in 2012 to earn revenue and gain share, whether that’s by leveraging HTML5 for rich cross-platform experiences, doing heavy data analysis or integrating collaboration tools across businesses.Companies mentioned in this report include Dropbox, Groupon, Twitter and Zynga. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial.
BillGuard pulls in $10M to expand its bill anti-virus service
BillGuard, a personal finance service that uses Big Data analysis and crowd sourcing to identify bogus charges, has been racking up accolades since it launched in May. And now it’s pulling in big money: $10 million from Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund and Innovation Endeavors.
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How big data can offer a competitive advantage
A new way of thinking about data and data scientists illustrates the broader shift that is slowly under way in the economy, a shift from simply collecting big data toward gathering and using data in order to make businesses better informed.
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What IBM Does With Big Data
In a world of billion-dollar web companies and VC-backed startups trying to forever change human interaction via software, IBM tends to look a little staid. But don’t let its deliberate pace, legacy-software-mongering ways and suited executives fool you. If you pull back the covers, you’ll find Big Blue investing resources as only it can to solve its customers’ most-pressing problems, from more targeted advertising and better driving directions to enhanced security and detailed recidivism projections.
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Cloudera CEO: Hadoop Will Go Beyond Web Apps
“Hadoop is going to find potential markets in any industry where there are large data sets that need complex analysis,” Mike Olson,…
