March 4, 2013

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

• FlyTxt to integrate Intel Distribution with Big Data platform

Hindu Business Line Flytxt has said it will integrate ‘Intel Distribution’ for Apache Hadoop software with its proprietary Big Data platforms. Intel, till recently, had its own Hadoop distribution, named Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop, an open-source software … (more)

• NASA says Bible Scientifically Accurate?

Student Operated Press According to data scientist gathered from a proto-planetary disc surrounding the star system CoKu Tau 4 in the Taurus constellation, planets like Earth form … (more)

• Big Data Done Cheap

New York Times (blog) In this case, the product is Big Data computing at near consumer prices. Violin Memory is an eight-year-old company that makes large-scale data storage systems for computer centers. Its boxes fetch information uncommonly quickly. Now, the company is … (more)

• The history of Hadoop: From 4 nodes to the future of data

GigaOM Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo’s search-engine woes to a general-purpose computing platform that’s poised to be the foundation for the next … (more)

• EMC touts screeching Hawq SQL performance for Hadoop

Register EMC’s Pivotal Initiative division made a big splash last week with the launch of its Pivotal HD distribution of Hadoop. This is not a normal Hadoop distribution, but one that takes the parallel guts of the Greenplum database and reworks them to … (more)

• Big data equals big opportunity for entrepreneurs

OCRegister Frost, a native of England and serial entrepreneur, was a pioneer in dealing with big data at DATAllegro in Aliso Viejo. He started the data warehousing firm in 2003 and sold it to Microsoft in 2008 for $275 million. After a two-year commitment with … (more)

• A Big Data experience revives the glory of SimCity

VentureBeat A decade of improvements in computing power and networking technology have enabled EA’s Maxis division to take this city simulator into the age of Big Data, where you can delve into all of the reasons why your city is or isn’t thriving or your citizens … (more)

• Companies look to make ‘big data’ into safe data

Marketplace.org The catch-all term is “big data” — and there’s a running debate about what companies should and should not be allowed to do with all this info. At a big computer security conference in San Francisco last week, a key theme was not what companies can … (more)

• Big Brands on Big Data: Bigger Marketing Is Not Better

ClickZ The biggest challenge now is to wrestle big data down into actionable insights. We need to get to the data that counts. Grazia Ochoa, director of global digital marketing at Starwood Hotels and Resorts said in a recent panel on data-driven marketing … (more)

• Big Data Takes Healthcare Transformation By Storm

Fort Mills Times Apixio Inc., a leading provider of big data analytic and clinical data integration solutions for healthcare, announced today that it is collaborating with Intel Corporation to optimize Hadoop-based big data solutions for widespread use in healthcare. (more)

• Sex: Relationship patterns are revealed by Facebook Data Science

Oregon Daily Emerald Are there certain times of the year when relationships flourish and certain times of the year when relationships suffer the most? Facebook Data Science certainly says so. Using U.S. Facebook data from 2010 to 2011, Facebook Data Science looked at the … (more)

• Strata speaker calls for increased focus on data scientist education

TechTarget Rachel Schutt, a senior research scientist at analytics startup Johnson Research Labs in New York, told Strata attendees that a shortage of data scientists … (more)

• Spark, Shark and Mesos Data Analytics Stack – Data Science Central

The Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) is an open source, next-generation data analytics stack under development at the UC Berkeley AMPLab whose … (more)