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Oracle launches Advanced Analytics for R modeling language

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:46:15 +0000

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

Tableau revamps BI visualization tools with user-centric design

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:27:55 +0000

BI (business intelligence) vendor Tableau Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Tableau 7.0, a release that boosts speed and scale as well as providing what the company calls "human-oriented" design and accessibility.

Oracle partners with Cloudera for Hadoop appliance

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:16:58 +0000

Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday.

The newly released appliance comes with Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop, along with the Cloudera Manager software. The rack also comes with a copy of the Oracle NoSQL Database. Oracle announced the Big Data Appliance, along with the Oracle NoSQL database, at OpenWorld last September.

EMC's Greenplum goes big in data analytics

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:12:29 +0000

The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users the tools to study an enterprise's information.

Site tracks users' 'love,' 'hate' of SAP, Oracle, and other software vendors

admin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:54:25 +0000

Enterprise software vendors have been rushing to build or buy "sentiment analysis" technologies that can analyze the tone of what people are saying about companies and brands on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

IT must prepare for Hadoop security issues

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:34:46 +0000

Corporate IT executives need to pay attention to numerous potential security issues before using Hadoop to aggregate data from multiple, disparate sources, analysts and IT executives said at the Hadoop World conference in New York this week.

Big data goes mainstream

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:41:48 +0000

We've all heard the predictions: By 2020, the quantity of electronically stored data will reach 35 trillion gigabytes, a forty-four-fold increase from 2009. We had already reached 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, by the end of 2010, according to IDC. That's enough data to fill a stack of DVDs reaching from the Earth to the moon and back -- about 240,000 miles each way.

5 hot tech projects to boost your IT career

Jason Snyder — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Too many projects, too little time: That's the sad lament of many IT professionals who must constantly balance the needs of the enterprise against the desires of business users -- all while keeping a close eye on the newest technologies coming at them from every direction.

Sybase IQ jumps on big data trend with Hadoop support

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:59:30 +0000

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing.

Yahoo spin-off hones a Hadoop distribution

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:51:37 +0000

Yahoo spin-off company Hortonworks has released a preview edition of what will be a fully open source distribution of the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, called the Hortonworks Data Platform, the company announced Tuesday.

The company has also started offering commercial support and training programs, designed for system integrators and independent software vendors planning to deploy Hadoop on behalf of their customers.

Big data prep: 5 things IT should do now

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:41:36 +0000

Got your "big data" plan in place? If not, you may want to start thinking about implementing one.

Big data is being hailed -- or hyped, depending on your point of view -- as a key strategic business asset of the future. That means it's only a matter of time before the suits in the corner office want to know IT's thoughts on the matter.

IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:12:19 +0000

IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.

IBM's Smart Analytics System servers are bundled with hardware and software for analytics, business intelligence, and transaction processing workloads, IBM said. IBM also introduced an entry-level business analytics appliance that can analyze data on the fly as transactions are processed in the cloud.

SGI to launch Cloudera Hadoop package

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:39:09 +0000

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday.

SGI Hadoop Clusters will run fully supported versions of Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop atop SGI's line of Rackable servers. SGI, which joined Cloudera Connect Partner Program, will offer a single telephone support line that can answer customer questions about either the SGI hardware or the Hadoop software.

Oracle does about-face on NoSQL

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:54:58 +0000

Oracle's introduction of its Big Data Appliance at the OpenWorld conference here this week is an indication of the attention it is being forced to pay to NoSQL database technology.

Oracle's appliance is based on Apache Hadoop software, a new Oracle NoSQL database, and an open source distribution of R, a programming language for statistical analysis.

Update: Oracle rolls out Big Data Appliance

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:23:50 +0000

Oracle unveiled the Big Data Appliance, the newest addition to its line of products that combine software and hardware, during the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday.

"Big data" is an industry buzzword that refers generally to the massive amounts of information generated by websites, sensors and other sources apart from traditional enterprise applications.

Kelley Blue Book taps data analytics tools to improve car valuation

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:49:33 +0000

Car buyers looking to purchase new or used vehicles have relied on the Kelley Blue Book to give them an estimate of how much a vehicle is really worth.

Until recently, the numbers were largely educated conjectures that Kelley analysts arrived at by running a handful of car sales and other metrics through a rudimentary pricing algorithm.

Why big data is a big deal

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000

NoSQL offers users scalability, flexibility, speed

admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:41:36 +0000

Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability, and flexibility, judging from a number of sessions at the NoSQL Now conference being held this week in San Jose, Calif.

EMC is using a mixture of traditional databases and newfangled NoSQL data stores to analyze public perception of the company and its products, explained Subramanian Kartik, distinguished EMC engineer, during one talk.

New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:48:34 +0000

New technologies are enabling companies to perform increasingly sophisticated data analytics on very large and very diverse data sets, an upcoming report from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows.

The report is based on responses from 325 IT managers, business users, and consultants at small, medium and large companies.

NewSQL could combine the best of SQL and NoSQL

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:21:07 +0000

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be "throwing the baby out with the bath water," warned a database pioneer before a roomful of NoSQL advocates.

Instead, SQL (Structured Query Language) can be adopted to newer systems with a few technical adjustments, giving it the full flexibility of NoSQL systems, argued Michael Stonebraker, CTO of distributed database software company VoltDB.