Tag: collaboration

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Guest Author. Simon Meredith, Chief Technology Officer – CSI, IBM Europe explains the significance of IBM & Hortonworks working together in the era of Big Data What is fuelling IBM’s commitment to Apache Hadoop and Spark? The pressures of day to day business are delaying companies doing more with their data. IBM’s commitment is to initiate, simplify and integrate Hadoop technologies into organisations to help mature, expansive and experiential projects without succumbing to heavier workloads. Businesses need to pursue new revenue opportunities, beat their competition and delight their customers with better, faster analytics and ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Anna Yong. In our recent investor relations presentations, we shared  a slide “5 Reasons Why You Need More Than Just Open Source Software”.  This is actually a question that comes up often, and I thought it would be helpful to provide a bit more depth to the discussion. Let me ask you – in a word association game – what word first comes to mind when someone says “Open Source”? Do you think the word “Free”? Easy? Fast?  If so, you are in the company of many others who have considered the same. However, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that AS ONE Corporation has released APIs using Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service, which provides Oracle's latest database, Oracle Database 12c Release 2, in the cloud. With these offerings, AS ONE will be able to provide its 4,300 dealerships with real-time information for over 300,000 inventory datasets. Prior to the investment in Oracle’s solutions, the data could only be published once a day. AS ONE is a general trading company of scientific instruments, as well as industrial, physics and chemistry equipment, that provides hospital and nursing care products. It offers more ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. By Fausto Ibarra, Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Platform New support for integrated data preparation and integration services that will help customers get faster value from data analytics. When it comes to getting value from data — whatever its volume, velocity or variety — we’ve come a long way from the days of traditional data warehouses. The accelerating interest in, and adoption of, Google BigQuery suggests that building a culture of “citizen data science” is within reach for more organizations ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Meg Blanchette. In a previous post on data maturity, we discussed a company that was just embarking on a transformation: launching a new services business and building data capabilities to support that business. But what if you’re not starting from the beginning? What if you’ve already been embracing new technology, conducting pilots, and launching new analytical platforms? Recently, we were working with a Fortune 500 industrial company in the midst of developing software services to improve product R&D and enrich the customer experience. Their goal was to use data to empower decision makers across every ... Read More

Feed: BDU Author: Janice Darling Here’s this week’s news in Data Science and Big Data. Don’t forget to subscribe if you find this useful! Interesting Data Science Articles and News Top mistakes data scientists make when dealing with business people – A discussion of the three top mistakes data scientists make. 4 Trends in Artificial Intelligence that affect enterprises. – Four AI trends that stand out in their affect on companies and enterprises. R Best Practices: R you writing the R way! – A list of programming practices that result in improved readability, consistency, and repeatability. The 5 Best Reasons ... Read More

GitHub Enterprise is a development and collaboration platform built on Git that enables developers to build and share software easily and effectively. It provides an integrated platform for continuous integration and development, a non-linear workflow for collaboration, and in-depth monitoring and auditing for administrators.  This Quick Start uses AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy GitHub Enterprise into a virtual private cloud (VPC) in your AWS account. You can build a new VPC for GitHub Enterprise, or deploy the software into your existing VPC. You can customize your deployment by configuring your network resources and modifying the instance type and storage options ... Read More

This Quick Start uses AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy HashiCorp Nomad into a virtual private cloud (VPC) in your AWS account. The modular implementation uses and extends three other Quick Start reference deployments:  The architecture spans three Availability Zones for high availability, and includes NAT gateways and Linux bastion hosts for Internet connectivity. The Quick Start sets up a configurable number of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Nomad server and client instances within separate Auto Scaling groups. You can build a new VPC for HashiCorp Nomad, or deploy the software into your existing VPC. You can customize your deployment by configuring ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: JT Rose. Next week, Microsoft is headed to Consensus 2017 in New York City to meet with blockchain developers and share new additions to our Microsoft Azure Blockchain portfolio. We’re thrilled to sponsor and participate in a forum that brings together businesses, partners, and communities who are passionate about taking blockchain to enterprise. More and more, blockchain is emerging as a topic of interest in our conversations with business leaders. A growing number of enterprises are experimenting with the technology as a secure and transparent way to digitally track the ownership of assets across trust ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Dmitry Petrov. It is hardly possible in real life to develop a good machine learning model in a single pass. ML modeling is an iterative process and it is extremely important to keep track of your steps, dependencies between the steps, dependencies between your code and data files and all code running arguments. This becomes even more important and complicated in a team environment where data scientists’ collaboration takes a serious amount of the team’s effort. Today, we are pleased to announce the beta version release of new open source tool ... Read More