Big Data
Summer School: MOOCs for Technologists
Summer means the end of class for many youngsters, but it's an ideal time for HPC and IT professionals to take advantage of free and low-cost online educational programs ...Full Article
SpaceCurve Adds Spatial World to Databases
As many enterprises grapple with the influx of big data they're collecting about customers' spending habits, credit histories, online preferences, and social media posts, a start-up expects its ability ...Full Article
Intel’s New Xeon E7 Family Targets Big Data
Intel wants to address enterprises' mission-critical, analytics, and big data processing needs with the advent of its new Xeon E7-4800 v3 and E7-8800 v3 x86 chips. The Santa Clara, ...Full Article
Cask Aims to Plug Hadoop Problems with CDAP 3.0
Rather than invent new applications for existing processes, internal Hadoop developers typically try to use pre-existing programs but Apache Hadoop's complexities may prevent these professionals from empowering their enterprises ...Full Article
SAS Kicks Off Global Forum with Bevy of New Products, Research
SAS kicked off its annual SAS Global Forum with a flurry of new product releases and research reports focused on bringing together business users and data scientists, and unifying ...Full Article
Big Data ‘Center of Gravity’ Shifting to Cloud
As practitioners of big data analytics seek to bring computing power closer to the data rather than the other way around, the cloud is emerging as the preferred platform ...Full Article
Airstone Clusters Drive Down Latency With Custom Network
Some hardware and software engineers at a startup called Airstone Labs, who have built scale-out systems for Google, among other places, want to build a better cluster. And as ...Full Article
Cray on Flash Tiered Storage for Supercomputing and Big Data sponsored content by Cray
There’s been a lot of recent talk about SSDs and flash storage, and rightly so. The move to flash storage is happening now—but a major shift, an inflection point, ...Full Article
