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Big Analytics Roundup (March 7, 2016)
Hortonworks wins the internet this week beating the drum for its partnership with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. The story is down under “Commercial Announcements,” just above the story about...
View ArticleApache Spark for Big Analytics (Updated for Spark Summit and Release 1.0.1)
Updated and bumped July 10, 2014. For a powerpoint version on Slideshare, go here. Introduction Apache Spark is an open source distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Hadoop....
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Spark Summit 2014 Roundup
Key highlights from the 2014 Spark Summit: Spark is the single most active project in the Hadoop ecosystem Among Hadoop distributors, Cloudera and MapR are clear leaders with Spark SAP now offers a...
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Smart Money: YTD Funding for Analytics Doubles vs. 2013
Funding for analytics startups continued at a torrid pace in the second quarter; 140 announced investments totaled $1.03 billion, compared to 137 investments totaling $657 million in the second quarter...
View ArticleStrata + Hadoop World 2014
A sellout crowd of 5,500 met at the Javits Center in New York last week for the 2014 Strata + Hadoop World conference. There were three major themes: Big Data in Action. In his keynote address, Mike...
View ArticleBig Analytics Roundup (October 26, 2015)
Fourteen stories this week, beginning with an announcement from IBM. This week, IBM celebrates 14 straight quarters of declining revenue at its IBM Insight conference, appropriately enough at the...
View ArticleBig Analytics Roundup (November 2, 2015)
Spark Summit Europe, Oracle Open World and IBM Insights all met last week, as did Cloudera’s Wrangle conference for data scientists. But in the really important news, KC beats the Mets to take the...
View ArticleBig Analytics Roundup (November 9, 2015)
My roundup of the Spark Summit Europe is here. Two important events this week: H2O World starts today and runs through Wednesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. Yotam Levy...
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Looking Ahead: Big Analytics in 2016
Every year around this time I review last year’s forecast and publish some thoughts about the coming year. 2015 Assessment First, a brief review of my predictions for 2015: (1) Apache Spark usage will...
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