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Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. So… the global financial meltdown. With all of our sophisticated analytics and modelling, shouldn’t we have been able to avoid the crisis? The license to print money – revoked The financial industry had lauded the analytical model known as Gaussian copula function as breakthrough for the modelling of complex risk, leading to unprecedented growth. Then, suddenly, in 2008 the financial system collapsed creating huge losses and disruption – the level of which, even today, is hard to comprehend. Was it really that sudden? Why didn’t the analytics see it coming? The truth ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: SQL Server Engineering Team. We are happy to announce SQL Server vNext Management Pack CTP2 bits with new features are ready. Please install and use this public preview and send us your feedback (sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com)! Please download the public preview bits at: Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Community Technical Preview 2) for SQL Server vNext Please note that CTP1 bits are not upgradable to CTP2. If you previously installed CTP1, you need to uninstall it before installing this release. Here is a table that gives a high level overview of which features are available: Feature/Workflow CTP1 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Nitin Soneji. With large enterprises deploying Azure Site Recovery (ASR) as their trusted Disaster Recovery solution to protect hundreds of virtual machines to Microsoft Azure, proper deployment planning before production rollout is critical. Today, we are excited to announce the Public Preview of the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner. This tool that helps enterprise customers to understand their on-premises networking requirements, Microsoft Azure compute and storage requirements for successful ASR replication, and test failover or failover of their applications. In the current public preview the tool is available only for the VMware to Azure scenario ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: yiliang. In this article, I will introduce how to use hbase-spark module in the Java or Scala client program. To understand this article, users need to have knowledge of hbase, spark, java and scala. I will create a maven project from scratch. The whole project is attached here:HBase-Spark 1.Create a maven projectThe most important thing for this step is modifying pom.xml in the maven project, we need to include all required jars as dependency and add some plugins to compile scala and java. 2.Develop Java and Scala source codeWe will use public API in hbase-spark module ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. You have come up with an exciting hypothesis, and now you are keen to find and analyze as much data as possible to prove (or refute) it. There are many datasets that might be applicable, but they have been created at different times by different people and don’t conform to any common standard. They use different names for variables that mean the same thing and the same names for variables that mean different things. They use different units of measurement and different categories. Some have more variables than others. And they all have data quality ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Jennifer Livingston. If you've been struggling to get useful results from big data, you're not alone. The buzz has been that any company not doing analytics is behind the times. But big data even has been a challenge in itself. Perhaps small data is the answer.   What is Big Data?   This refers to the huge amounts of data being collected from many sources. Data is coming in from POS transactions, barcode scanners, and network activity in every aspect of business. More is coming from social media, surveys, and even ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Schiebel. Welcome back to my blog series, the CISO’s View.  We started with  CISO’s View: metrics part 1, looking at metrics and why they are the foundation of a successful security program. In CISO’s View: metrics part 2, we figured out how to create metrics that are tied to the company strategy and show the value the security program delivers. Today, we’ll look at how we leverage metrics to effectively communicate to the business and how they tie into the security program lifecycle. Hopefully by time we are done, you too will agree ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. It’s not what you know. It’s what you do with what you know. This is something organisations worldwide are increasingly learning when it comes to how they are approaching and working with data and analytics today. Customer’s expectations have changed. Providing a good product is simply not enough for today’s businesses. The majority demand a fantastic and seamless experience from the delivery of products and services to how a customer interacts with the brand. Customers are now dictating the rules and what is expected, and they have the ability to quickly choose ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Schiebel. Welcome back to my blog series, the CISO’s View.  In my last article, CISO’s View: metrics part 1, we started looking at metrics and why they are the foundation of a successful security program. Today, we’ll look at how we derive metrics that communicate value in a way that’s tied to the company strategy. Hopefully by time we are done, you too will agree that metrics are the foundation of a successful security program that is viewed as a strategic business enabler. Metrics aligned to strategyOkay, so where do we start?  The ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Bryan Liston. Shiva Narayanaswamy, Solution ArchitectAmazon Kinesis Firehose is a fully managed service for delivering real-time streaming data to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES). You configure your data producers to send data to Firehose and it automatically delivers the data to the specified destination. You can send data to your delivery stream using the Amazon Kinesis Agent or the Firehose API, using the AWS SDK. Customers have told us that they want to perform light preprocessing or mutation of the incoming data stream before writing it to ... Read More