Looker, an innovative software company with a unique approach to business analytics, recently announced a partnership with Snowplow Analytics, together providing organizations with a powerful end-to-end solution for understanding web event data
Cloudera Raises $160 Million for Accelerated Growth in 2014 and Beyond
March 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced that it has closed a new round of financing of $160 million led by top tier institutional and strategic investors.
What is Business Analytics?
March 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Here is an informative high-level presentation introducing Business Analytics by J. Michael Hardin, Ph.D. from the University of Alabama speaking at the SAS Global Forum 2013. The non-technical talk focuses on the conceptual issues surrounding business analytics and sets the stage for motivation behind using this technology. If you’re a decision maker in an organization […]
Metascale Introduces Hadoop Appliance
March 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
MetaScale, the technology solutions provider subsidiary of Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), recently introduced a Hadoop appliance product line that incorporates advanced technology with the expertise of specialists who have successfully delivered Hadoop implementations.
Interview: Diablo Technologies Disrupts with Memory Channel Storage
March 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Memory Channel Storage is an innovative storage architecture that enables non-volatile media to reside within the memory subsystem. “Anyone using or designing Enterprise storage solutions should be paying attention. The unique performance and scalability characteristics of Memory Channel Storage are truly disruptive and will both accelerate existing applications with no changes required and enable new use cases.”
The SAS versus R Debate
March 1, 2014 by 6 Comments
The question posed was simple enough. At the time I didn’t think such a firestorm would result. Here’s the original post from August 2011 with the subject “SAS versus R”
Gartner Reveals Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics
February 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The analytics software category is 30 years old and about $15 billion in size. So why is it that information technology research and advisory firm Gartner has not published a standalone Magic Quadrant on the sector until this year? The answer: Gartner has meshed business intelligence with analytics for the past decade, and viewed them […]
Interview: Data Analytics and the Ubiquitous Internet of Things
February 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We sat down with Cristian Borcea, PhD from the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss the IoT and Big Data applications. “New machine learning techniques could help us extract knowledge from these data – this happens especially for knowledge that we don’t expect and we don’t even know exists – we cannot search for something that we don’t know exists.”
Adaptive Computing Introduces Big Workflow to Accelerate Insights
February 25, 2014 by Leave a Comment
“A Big Workflow approach to big data not only delivers business intelligence more rapidly, accurately and cost effectively, but also provides a distinct competitive advantage. We are confident that Big Workflow will enable enterprises across all industries to leverage big data that inspires game-changing, data-driven decisions.”
Becoming a Data Scientist – What Does it Take?
February 20, 2014 by 7 Comments
I’ve been monitoring a curious and lively discussion over on LinkedIn – “Is it necessary to have a Masters Degree to become a data scientist?” The comments I’ve seen have exhibited a number of points of view on the matter that I think are reflective of the questions on many people’s minds – both those wanting to become a data scientist and those wanting to hire a data scientist.
