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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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