Mesosphere Touts ‘Container 2.0’
In a bid to jumpstart what it calls a "Container 2.0" movement, application container pioneer Mesosphere announced partnerships with big data vendors designed to push distributed application technology to ...Full Article
Crowd-sourcing Algorithms to Beat Wall Street
Looking to cash in on your algorithm expertise? Join the crowd. A three-year-old hedge fund investment company, Quantopian, which crowd-sources algorithms to guide its investing, has just received an ...Full Article
Study: Corporate-“Shadow” IT Gap Puts Cloud-based Data in Peril
As corporate data – much of it sensitive – flies to the cloud in growing volume, a serious disconnect between corporate and “shadow” IT has developed in recent years, ...Full Article
The Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
Welcome to the Third Age of Data, where an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal ...Full Article
How GPU-Powered Analytics Improves Mail Delivery for USPS
When the United States Postal Service (USPS) set out to buy a system that would allow it to track the location of employees, vehicles, and individual pieces of mail ...Full Article
New Flash from IBM Targets Unstructured Data Analytics
JBOF (“jay-boff”), or Just A Bunch of Flash, may sound like a pejorative acronym. But when industry analyst Randy Kerns, senior strategist at Evaluator Group, used it in reference ...Full Article
9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and ...Full Article
Session Awareness: Overcoming Standalone Network Functions
Lately, things have felt a bit like the 1990s. A hot new app had just been released and everyone was talking about it – but its reliability and performance ...Full Article
Cray and Deloitte Join Supercomputing with Security-as-a-Service
When cyber-criminals look at your network, what do they see? Providing the adversary's perspective on computing infrastructures they're intent on attacking is a core concept of a new "cyber ...Full Article
It’s 3 a.m. — Do You Know What Your Cluster’s Doing?
Performance challenges in Hadoop environments are par for the course as organizations attempt to capture the benefits of big data. The growing ecosystem of tools and applications (including new ...Full Article
