Oracle’s Big Data Appliance to include R
At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco today, Oracle announced the new Oracle Big Data Appliance, "a new engineered system…
Revolution Analytics Partners with Cloudera
Revolution Analytics today announced that it has partnered with Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, to make big-data…
Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R
MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem.…
NSA, Accumulo & Hadoop
Reading yesterday that the NSA has submitted a proposal to Apache to incubate their Accumulo platform. This, according to the…
Splunk: Bringing Big Data Analysis to the Rest of Us
Today’s IT departments need to deal with incredible amounts of machine data. Splunk collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast…
Quickly Deploy a Well-Engineered Apache Hadoop Solution to a Production Environment
As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday’s announcement by Dell and…
CTOlabs.com Assessment on “Hadoop for Intelligence Analysis”
CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just published…
3 Big Data Myths for Enterprises
Lately, I have been thinking about the entire big data trend. Fundamentally, it makes sense to me and I believe…
Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions
Teradata announced its intent to acquire Aster Data today. Obviously this is big news in analytics-land and I participated in…
