Tag: Enterprise

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Big Data can be intimidating! If you are new to Big Data, please read ‘What is Big Data’, ‘Who coined Big Data’ to get you started. With the basic concepts under your belt, let’s focus on some key terms to impress your date or boss or family. By the way, I am putting together a much more exhaustive list of Big Data terms (almost 100) and if you are interested in that, please leave a comment below with a note ‘I want more of Big data’ or ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. Introduction by Terry Wise, Global Vice President, Channels & Alliances at AWSThe Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way companies collect, store, analyze, and take action from data through connected devices. AWS has built IoT specific services, such as AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass to help you simply and securely connect your devices to the cloud and allow you to act on the data (either in the cloud, on the connected device, or both) and provide the ability to manage your devices so you can focus on developing applications that fit ... Read More

Feed: Hazelcast Blog. Author: Denis Sukhoroslov. Q: What is your primary task when you start a new project? A: To choose the right set of tools for the job, I believe. This is the story about how I had to “choose the right tool” and how that lead me to build Bagri, the document DB. At one time, I decided to build my own XML database because there were no suitable solutions on the market at that time. RDBMS extensions like Oracle XML DB, DB2 XML were quite limited and had no full XQuery support. Native XML DBs like BaseX, ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. In the second instalment of this blog, we introduced machine learning as a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that is concerned with methods and algorithms that allow machines to improve themselves and to learn from the past. Machine learning is often concerned with making so-called “supervised predictions,” or learning from a training set of historical data where objects or outcomes are known and are labelled. Once trained, our machine or “intelligent agent” is enabled to differentiate between, say, a cat and a mat. The currently much-hyped “deep learning” is shorthand for the ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Andrew Lampitt. Imagine going through all financial and personal gymnastics of building your dream home, only to have your company say they’re transferring you across the country. That’s the situation some of Walmart tech vendors are currently facing: having to rebuild all of their Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based data and apps because Walmart doesn’t want them to be using AWS anymore. Incredibly enough, or not, Walmart has asked some of its technology vendors to stop using AWS if they want to keep doing business with them, and other large retailers are reportedly ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. This is a guest post provided by Booz Allen Hamilton data analysis consultant, Aaron Cordova.  Aaron specializes in large-scale distributed data processing systems. Working within the U.S. federal government arena provides plenty of opportunities to encounter large-scale data analysis. Projects ranging from massive health studies to high-velocity network security events to new sources of imagery and video represent a huge increase in the amount of data that must be not only stored but processed quickly and efficiently. These challenges are at once a daunting and exciting chance to turn data into ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. What’s it worth? During a recent business-value consulting engagement with a global telecom company, the CEO told me he believed that the investments he was making in enterprise information assets were generating huge value. The only problem was he could see no evidence of it other than the retained revenue and revenue growth reported by his marketing team. Shortly after, the director of BI and analytics confided that, in his opinion, the advanced analytics team was a lot more valuable than the company’s information assets, and wanted to know if there a ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Tom White. Apache Hadoop 0.21.0 was released on August 23, 2010. The last major release was 0.20.0 in April last year, so it’s not surprising that there are so many changes in this release, given the amount of activity in the Hadoop development community. In fact, there were over 1300 issues fixed in JIRA (Common, HDFS, MapReduce), the issue tracker used for Apache Hadoop development. Bear in mind that the 0.21.0 release, like all dot zero releases, isn’t suitable for production use. With such a large delta from the last release, it is ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Alex Kozlov. Apache Hadoop and Apache HBase are gaining popularity due to their flexibility and tremendous work that has been done to simplify their installation and use.  This blog is to provide guidance in sizing your first Hadoop/HBase cluster.  First, there are significant differences in Hadoop and HBase usage.  Hadoop MapReduce is primarily an analytic tool to run analytic and data extraction queries over all of your data, or at least a significant portion of them (data is a plural of datum).  HBase is much better for real-time read/write/modify access to tabular data.  Both ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: bc Wong. The HUE (aka. Hadoop User Experience) project [download|installation|manual] started as Cloudera Desktop about a year ago. The old name “Desktop” really refers to a desktop look-and-feel, since HUE is a web UI for Hadoop. Beyond delivering a suite of web applications, it is also a platform for building custom applications with a nice UI library. Gradually, we realized how much value such a UI platform would bring to the community, and I am very excited that Cloudera contributed HUE as an open source project. A still image does not do HUE ... Read More