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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 […]
Wells Fargo Archives Big Data
Wells Fargo Archives Big Data, Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum At Wells Fargo, creating and managing rich media content used for internal communications—training, meeting and conference support, human resources and corporate communications—had become increasingly painful. Their existing partially file-based workflow was costly to operate and labor-intensive. Completed projects had to be […]
Forrester: Big Data on Cutting Edge
Big Data is not the typical data mining and business intelligience applications. There are new examples of more applications on the cutting edge. NY Times article by Steve Lohr :Sorting Reality fro Hype” A Forrester Research report, published Friday, provides some leavening perspective on the big data phenomenon. The report is based on a survey […]
Transformative Analytics Clouds
Transformative Analytics Clouds, Ed Lucente, Big Data I/O Forum There’s plenty of talk about benefits of business analytics — the analysis of “big data” to spot insightful trends, patterns, or correlations — but far less discussion around business analytics applications delivered using analytics cloud appliances. This should change soon as more and more businesses deploy […]
ScaleMatrix a Big Idea for the Cloud
ScaleMatrix had their coming out party for the San Diego community to showcase their state of the art 50,000 square foot data center. Scale Matrix has raised the bar for energy efficiency and can pass the savings to their customers. Every business from SMB to large enterprise should investigate what applications and what part of […]
Security nightmare is Big Data Analytics in the Cloud
Security nightmare is Big Data Analytics in the Cloud, Dan Gatti, Big Data I/O Forum The NCAA has its sweet 16 every year in the tournament playoff. The Security for Business Innovation Council, has 16 security leaders from companies that include eBay, Coca-Cola Company, SAP, FedEx Corp., Johnson & Johnson and Northrop Grumman. The council published […]
Dr. Kimball at TDWI San Diego Sept 29th
Big Data Analytics Challenges the Conventional Data Warehouse Let’s have a chat with Ralph! register at www.tdwisandiego.org The “bigness” of big data is actually not the most significant challenge. Big data ranges from being highly structured to completely unstructured, and it frequently is profoundly distributed. Often big data must be loaded and analyzed BEFORE a […]
