Big Data

Fujitsu showcases prototype high-speed big data processing tech

Japan’s Fujitsu Laboratories is trying to address the demand for faster processing in big data systems that handle analytics workloads.This week, the …

Bloomberg Media has a robot writing story summaries

Digiday+ Member Article<p>This week, Bloomberg Media rolled out Bulletin, a newsfeed-style feature in its mobile app that gives users personalized …

How to read value of accumulators in worker task in spark?

As per the documentation of accumulators in spark:Note that tasks on worker nodes cannot access the accumulator’s value()—from the point of view of …

Big Data + Analytics = Irresistible Customer Experiences

In 2013, a research by Walker predicted that by 2020 customer experience will overtake price and product as the main differentiator. While most …

Thought Leadership Series: Big Data and Analytics: Implications for Australian Business

The RMIT Graduate School of Business and Law presents the next instalment of the Business Thought Leadership Series.<p><b>Topic:</b> Big Data and Analytics: …

Tamr raises $10 million for AI-powered data analytics

Big data analytics might not be the most exciting application of artificial intelligence (AI), but there’s a lot of money in it — as much as $42 billion, according to Statista. So it’s not exactly surprising that startups like Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that leverages AI to …

reading very wide data set performance optimization

I am importing fixed width file from source which very wide dataset having fixed width string length close to 120000 and i need to extract 20K …

10 Big Data Trends You Should Know

<b>By Dai Carillo , PureB2B</b><p>The vast changes prevailing in today’s technological landscape has opened doors for big data to improve businesses across …

Capitalize on the Big Data boom with 6 courses of self-paced training

To master Big Data you need <b>big training</b>. Fortunately, a fantastic opportunity has presented itself this week. There’s a temporary price drop on the Big Data Hadoop Spark & Administrator Master Bundle, from over $2,200 to under $60.<p>Big Data is one of the <b>exploding markets in the tech industry</b>. It …

Privacy watchdogs call for more oversight over political parties

OTTAWA — Privacy watchdogs from across the country are collectively calling on federal and provincial governments to force political parties to …

Hortonworks CEO plots future in hybrid cloud, IoT as Hadoop landscape evolves

For a company built on the premise of big data management, the challenge for Hortonworks Inc. is to keep its eye on where enterprise information is …

Military Photo of the Day: Marines Fire Way During Exercise in Syria

U.S. Marines fighting ISIS in northeast Syria fire an 81mm mortar during an exercise in Hajin on August 4, 2018.Thousands of brave American troops …

FinancialForce on the Forbes Cloud 100 List

Trial regulation released to improve health, medical big data management

BEIJING - China's National Health Commission has released a trial regulation on standards, security, and services of health and medical big data to …

Passing data from bigdata child job to standard parent job in talend 6.4

Please note my special requirement of passing value from Child Spark job to Parent standard job.I am aware that this is possible between two standard …

Top 9 Job Roles in the World of Data Science

8. Business Analyst<p>The role of business analysts is slightly different than the other data science jobs. While they do have a good understanding of …

Teradata making room for 275 additional employees in San Diego as part of headquarters move

At Teradata Corp.’s Rancho Bernardo campus, construction crews are busy remodeling a building to make room for an additional 275 employees expected …

Confluent on the Forbes Cloud 100 List

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What to do with the data? The evolution of data platforms in a post big data world

Thought leader Esteban Kolsky takes on the big question: What will data platforms look like now that big data's hype is over and big data "solutions" …

7 key features of big data analytics tools to take into account

Gone are the days when <b>big data analytics</b> was considered as a mere buzzword, now it has successfully ended in becoming a new fact of business life. …

Fluor uses IBM Watson for predictive analytics

Fluor's (NYSE:FLR) extensive engineering, fabrication, construction and deep supply chain expertise, coupled with AI and analytic technologies from …

CrossBrowserTesting for open source, Informatica’s Big Data management solution, and CA’s AI research

SmartBear is making its UI functional web testing tool available for free for open-source projects. CrossBrowserTesting enables teams to automate …

Snowflake on the Forbes Cloud 100 List

Seven stages of predictive analytics implementation

For the past few decades, business intelligence tools have been essential for companies wanting to stay ahead of the competition. Their use has …

Farm data analytics startup Growers raises $5M, creates second headquarters in Seattle

Growers is growing.<p>The Raleigh, N.C.-based farm data analytics startup today announced a $5 million Series A investment round and the creation of a …

Sisense hauls in $80M investment as data analytics business matures

Sisense, a company that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, announced an $80 million Series E investment today led by Insight Venture Partners. They also announced that Zack Urlocker, former COO at Duo Security and Zendesk, has joined the organization’s …

Data analytics firm Sisense raises $80 million, to accelerate hiring

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Business intelligence software provider Sisense said on Wednesday it raised $80 million, bringing the total amount invested in the Israeli company to about $200 million.<p>The latest round was led by New-York based Insight Venture Partners, a venture capital and private equity …

Dell EMC puts big data as a service on premises

To get up and running on a self-service, big-data analytics platform efficiently, many data-center and network managers these days would likely think …

You’ve heard the adage that every company now is a software company. The fuel that drives it is data. By the same token, many enterprises are considering cloud-native technologies based on Kubernetes and microservices for business innovation. However many enterprises dealing with extremely large data sets have not been able to run data analytics applications on the same IT infrastructure running the rest of their workloads. Until now.

You’ve heard the adage that every company now is a software company. The fuel that drives it is data.<p>By the same token, many enterprises are …