Daily Big Data Feed – Aug 8, 2012

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

  • Big Data Pioneer Guavus Participates in CableLabs Summer Conference …

    • MarketWatch (press release) At the Innovation Showcase, Guavus demonstrated its Reflex(TM) Big Data Analytics platform and cable specific decisioning applications, which provide actionable, contextually aware insights into the customer experience, network performance and product … (more)

  • Nimbula, MapR Technologies deliver turnkey Hadoop solution for private

    • clouds eChannelLine Nimbula has introduced an elastic Hadoop solution with MapR Technologies, the provider of an open, enterprise-grade distribution for Apache Hadoop, to help customers get their Hadoop cluster running on a Nimbula Director-based cloud in minutes. (more)

  • Gazzang Seizes Big Data Momentum with Key Customers, Partner Wins and …

    • MarketWatch (press release) “As the big data market continues to mature, more customers are asking us to protect their data at rest on massively distributed, high-throughput platforms,” said Larry Warnock, president and CEO of Gazzang. “Our focus continues to be on providing … (more)

  • New SiSense Global Survey: Big Data Pros High on Salary, Low on Resources

    • MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SiSense Inc., a leader in Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI), today releases findings of a new salary survey providing insights into compensation trends and drivers for data professionals … (more)

  • Trend Micro unleashes big data analytics

    • Help Net Security … infrastructure that powers most of the company’s products and services. The latest iteration incorporates advanced big data analytic capabilities that enable Trend Micro to identify new security threats across data sources, delivering global threat … (more)

  • Data Scientist jobs – Dice.com

    • Skills: Basic Qualifications – Must possess either: o Bachelors in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science or other related field with 3+ years … (more)

  • Columbia University joins movement to make New York a center of

    • high-tech … New York Daily News Columbia University joins movement to make New York a center of high-tech innovation New Institute of Data Science and Engineering continues long tradition of groundbreaking research. EDITORIALS. Thursday, August 02, 2012. Columbia University is … (more)

  • Actuate and DataStax Partner to Deliver Big Data Analytics Solutions for …

    • MarketWatch (press release) “By partnering with Actuate, DataStax democratizes access to Big Data, delivering insights to data scientists and business decision-makers alike,” said Matt Pfeil, Co-Founder and VP of Customer Solutions, DataStax. “Cassandra as a Big Data foundation … (more)

  • VMware snaps up big data analytics tool Log Insight

    • ZDNet (blog) VMware snaps up big data analytics tool Log Insight. Summary: Log Insight, a big data analytics product owned by Pattern Insight, will be snapped up by VMware as it continues to acquire its way into the already-established cloud computing market. (more)

  • You want big data? Here’s your big data

    • InfoWorld Big data is the latest hot industry trend. If you’re in the kind of company where upper management is putting pressure on IT to be trendy, it’s time to plan. The big question about big data: Plan for what, exactly? With big data, you have only two … (more)

  • Tableau Software Expands Big Data Capabilities; Launches Japanese Version

    • Equities.com Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence (BI) software, today announced direct access to the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop for big data analytics. Tableau’s MapR support is included in the general availability of … (more)

  • CloudFuzion Manages Big Data To And From The Cloud

    • Virtual-Strategy Magazine Big Data is one of the obstacles to the widespread deployment of cloud based render farms and computational clusters. It takes time to move the Gigabytes of data required to execute a scene render in the 3D animation arena, or to complete the analysis … (more)

  • Logo Design Process For Open Data Science | Blake McCreary

    • Time to share a new documented brand identity process! The logo design project I’ll be sharing in this brief is with Open Data Science. (more)

  • Bursting the Big Data Bubble | ZDNet

    • Summary: A Big Data analytics company CEO exposes some common, and potentially harmful, misunderstandings about Big Data. (more)

  • VMware Expands Big Data Portfolio

    • Sci-Tech Today “My guess is that VMware will use this [Log Insight] tool as a way to get insight into how services are performing and almost create some benchmarks against it,” said analyst Zeus Kerravala, “so that as more of their customers get into Big Data they … (more)

  • Hadoop Skills: Not the Same Old Java

    • IT Business Edge (blog) She kindly passed along this SearchSOA piece, which says that though Hadoop requires Java skills, Hadoop probably will be a different type of Java development project. It says Big Data analytics shares similarities with traditional SOA and batch … (more)

  • Collision Course: Commercial and HPC Big Data

    • Scientific Computing In late 2011, I wrote in Scientific Computing about the increasing collisions between commercial big data and data-intensive HPC. In the short time since then, the dimensions of these encounters have become clearer. This might qualify as the most … (more)

  • DataStax Partners with Simba Technologies for Big Data ODBC Connector

    • Broadcast Newsroom SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA — (Marketwire) — 08/08/12 — Cassandra Summit 2012 (http://www.datastax.com/events/cassandrasummit2012) – DataStax(TM) (www.datastax.com), the commercial company behind Apache Cassandra(TM) … (more)