Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 13, 2012

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

  • Media6Degrees’ Claudia Perlich Wins Second ACM SIGKDD Best Industry …

    • Broadcast Newsroom “Claudia is an exceptional data scientist, and we’re lucky to have her co-leading our pioneering work alongside Brian Dalessandro,” said Tom Phillips, CEO of m6d. “We are thrilled that the KDD conference has once again recognized the incredible work … (more)

  • How Big Data Became So Big – Slashdot

    • Big Data has sprung from the confines of technology circles into the mainstream, even becoming grist for Dilbert satire (‘Big Data lives in The Cloud. It knows… (more)

  • Companies struggle to get past open source ‘big data’ experimentation

    • TechTarget UK Open source “big data” technologies seem stuck in the sand pit of experimentation in UK corporations. This has been a consistent theme in SearchDataManagement.co.UK interviews with people familiar with early big data implementations. (more)

  • Nimble unveils scalable big data storage

    • ITWeb Nimble Storage is offering hybrid scale-out storage solutions that are flexible and affordable, qualities necessary requirements for enterprises that are adopting virtualisation in the data centre and trying to get their arms around big data, Tech Week … (more)

  • Symantec Big Data offerings make Apache Hadoop Enterprise Ready

    • CTR Apache Hadoop offers customers significant value to drive revenue by helping analyze data for business insights, however many existing data solutions lack the data management capabilities and built-in resilience to overcome the cost and complexity of … (more)

  • 5 Big Data Trends Transforming the Channel

    • Channelnomics Enter Big Data. A lot is being made of the Big Data trend as vendors race products and services to market to capitalize on this trend. Some say Big Data is just a repackaging of data mining and business intelligence. To a certain degree, this is true … (more)

  • The emergence of big data in the boardroom

    • ITProPortal With more than 1.8 zettabytes of information created in 2011 (which would require 57.5 billion 32 GB iPads to store!) and 2.5 quintillions pieces of data being churned out every day according to IBM, big data has become a serious business issue for … (more)

  • Big data calls for more data scientists

    • CIOL BANGALORE, INDIA: In the past, we had enough number of information technology and software engineers to drive the IT revolution in the country. And today, as the industry is undergoing a change with the onset of cloud and big data, we need a new breed … (more)

  • Data Scientist at Abercrombie and Fitch in Columbus Ohio 43054 …

    • Abercrombie and Fitch – Data Scientist – Columbus – Position Title: Sr. Analyst, Business Intelligence – AnalyticTalent.com. (more)

  • Data Scientist at EMC | AnalyticTalentcom

    • EMC – Data Scientist – - Greenplum, a division of EMC, is setting the pace – AnalyticTalent.com. (more)

  • Big Data Playing a Bigger Role in Fraud-Spotting

    • Compliance Week That may all be changing with the advent of the Big Data era. These days, high-powered analytic tools can crunch through enormous quantities of structured and unstructured data, producing an exponentially greater set of comparisons within the data on … (more)