In this slidecast, Dev Patel and Poulomi Damany from BitYota describe the company’s Data Warehouse Service. “We are a Data Warehouse Service (DWS) available on major cloud providers like Rackspace and Amazon. We are designed from the ground up for high performance analytics on JSON data from fast-changing applications including web & mobile analytics and NoSQL stores like MongoDB. We don’t impact your operational store or app and best of all, as a fully managed service, we take the headache out of having to set up and manage another data platform.”
Interview: Ubuntu Takes on Hyperscale Using Open Source Technology
February 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
“The term and current marketing around “Big Data” may be over-spun, but it’s clear that the ability to store and process lots of data will unlock many interesting use cases that were simply not even considered to be requirements in the past. There are certainly going to be an increasing number of companies and sites that focus on analyzing the data they are generating and collecting with an eye to generating valuable insights – answers to questions like “in what geographical location do my products sell the most?” and “what demographic buys my highest margin products?”
TECH TIP: Using MongoDB with R
December 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As the next installment of the insideBIGDATA TECH TIP series, I wanted to focus on the marriage of two important technologies to the data science community: the R statistical environment and the MongoDB database.
Top 10 Most Funded Big Data Startups
November 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
One good indicator of the financial health of an industry is the amount of venture capital finding its way into company coffers. If you accept that measure of success then the big data industry is on pace to become a shining example of riches derived from technology. Forbes recently published an updated list of their […]
Long Live In Memory Computing
October 25, 2013 by 1 Comment
By Nikita Ivanov, CEO of GridGain in Memory Computing. In the last 12 months we observed a growing trend that use cases for distributed caching are rapidly going away as customers are moving up stack… in droves. Let me elaborate by highlighting three points that when combined provide a clear reason behind this observation.
Critiquing the Corporate Downside of Big Data
October 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It’s great to see a mainstream publication such as the Wall Street Journal covering an upstart tech industry like Big Data as it provides legitimacy and exposure in corporate circles. I was therefore energized to see a recent article “The Corporate Downside of Big Data” by Dr. John Jordan, professor at Penn State University. Unfortunately, the […]
MongoDB the Highest Flyer in Big Data
October 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Having recently raised $150 million in financing to accelerate its global expansion, MongoDB now qualifies as the most funded big data startup company. The round included industry heavy hitters such as Salesforce and Intel, Altimeter Capital, T. Rowe Price Associates, Sequoia Capital plus a unnamed financial services company as lead investor. The new participation brings […]
Pentaho Announces Business Analytics 5.0
September 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
After many years of intensive planning, research, and conversations with customers and industry experts, Pentaho Corporation announces today – Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0, a completely redesigned data integration and analytics platform. The new release offers more than 250 new features and improvements. With Pentaho 5.0, businesses striving to increase their competitive advantage with big data […]
As Demand Keeps On Increasing, Hadoop And NoSQL Skills Pay Off
April 11, 2013 by 3 Comments
In this special guest feature, Matt Asay from 10gen writes that the move to Big Data means plenty of IT jobs for people with the right skills. The rise of Big Data has pushed companies to desperately start seeking IT professionals that can help in their database efforts. Though the Big Data market is still […]
Video: Rocking MongoDB in the Cloud
January 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In this video from the Amazon re: Invent 2012 conference, Miles Ward from AWS presents: Rocking MongoDB in the Cloud. MongoDB is one of the fastest growing NoSQL workloads on AWS due to its simplicity and scalability, and recent product additions by the AWS team have only improved those traits. Join us for a deep-dive […]
