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Five Big Data Predictions for 2012
Edd Dumbill looks at the hot topics in data for the coming year. by Edd Dumbill | @edd | +Edd Dumbill | Comments: 7 | 14 December 2011 More powerful and expressive tools for analysis This year has seen consolidation and engineering around improving the basic storage and data processing engines of NoSQL and Hadoop. That will doubtless continue, […]
Dallas Cowboys Running with Data Scientists
Dallas Cowboys Running with Data Scientists, Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum Americas team the Dallas Cowboys may have lost last week in the last 12 minutes to the New York Giants, but their Data Scientists were running for touchdowns all across the U.S. According to Bill Priakos, COO of the Dallas Cowboys Merchandising Division, […]
Watch Elephants Dance: 202PB Managed by Hadoop
Almost 600 companies using Hadoop clusters with 50% using between 100 and 1000 nodes. Watch out for when you introduce higher speeds like 40GE Networks and Elephants chase their tails. See article by Timothy Prickett Morgan Growing penguins need petabytes to feast on By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author Posted […]
Big Data Weather Insurance for Farmers
The Climate Corporation uses 50 terabytes of live data — including weather measurements from 2.5 million locations and 150 billion soil observations — to create weather insurance for farmers. Its founders learned big data principles from their time at Google and now predict risk for weather events like droughts or flooding. This graphic is the […]
Big Data: Where is it?
As we create more data, whether it is structured or unstructured, the questions are “How do we control data” and “Where is my data” becomes the next challenge. “I need a single pane of glass to see where my data is; anytime, anyplace and anywhere.” says Michael Wall, president and CEO of Atempo. Also, excellent […]
Gordon Ready to Shatter 35M IOPS
Gordon Ready to Shatter 35M IOPS, Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum Research is being done at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego investigating solutions in the Big Data explosion. Gordon will be integrated with the new Intel® Xeon® processor E5 Familyand the new Intel® Solid-State Drive 710 Series […]
TCI launches Datanami
Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications and Nicole Hemsoth launch Datanami. “Working closely with Tom and Nicole, the Big Data I/O Forum was inspirational in helping TCI recognize the Big Data explosion and impact on applications” said Dan Gatti, Executive Director of the Big Data I/O Forum. As processor companies increase cores and threads, the […]
$100M Big Data Fund for “Cool Stuff”
Ping Li, partner at Accel (pictured right) Venture firm Accel Partners has carved out a $100 million “big data” fund to invest in companies focused on building new IT infrastructure or on applications than run on that new infrastructure. Accel, based in Palo Alto, Calif., at the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture capital community, has invested […]
Digital Entertainment >$52B in 2014
Futuresource: digital entertainment spend to reach nearly $52bn by 2014 by Mai Hoang Outlay on digital content will account for 46% of total global spend across packaged and digital media by 2014, compared with 24% in 2010, according to new data issued by Futuresource Consulting. In total, digital and packaged media are expected to achieve […]
Total Investments Hadooooping >$157M
Ignition Partners lighting up the market with by leading $40 Million investment into Cloudera The total investment into Hadoop start-ups exceeds $157 million Hadoop Company Recent Investment Total Investment Cloudera $40M $76M MapR $20M $29M DataStax $11M $14M Datameer $9M $12M Karmasphere $6M $11M Hadapt $10M Platfora $6M Zettaset $3M $3M Total […]
