Daily Big Data Feed – Jul 18, 2012
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
- Fun Friday: Pick Up Lines Only A Data Scientist Could Love …
- Dear Marketers: You Need a Data Scientist
- Dear Marketers You Need a Data Scientist Yahoo News
- SAP Business Intelligence Upgrades Address Mobile, Big Data Trends
- Banks need big data to trump Google, Amazon: analyst
- 3 Steps For Adding Value To Your Big Data Strategy
- Companies Doing Poor Job Turning Big Data into Profits
- Could We See a VMware Cloud Spin Off with a Big Data Edge …
- How Can Data Science Serve the Public Good | Datastream
- Twitter’s Open Source Big Data Tool Comes to the Cloud Courtesy …
- Coraid’s New Servers for Video/Big Data Workloads | SiliconANGLE
- EMI Million Interview Dataset Launched
- Nodeable Bolsters Hadoop With StreamReduce Analytics Engine for
- Pentaho Wants To Make Hadoop Easy
- Retention Science Launches, Leverages Big Data to Maximize e-Commerce …
- Clustrix Delivers Scale-Out SQL DBaaS for Big Data Applications With New …
- Health Care Organizations Unprepared for Big Data Challenges: Oracle Report
- From Big Data to Games: NYC Startups Pitch FinTech Innovations
- Can You Predict Who Will Love A New Song? Music And Data Science …
- Database Virtualization: The Big Data Diet
- Time To Build Your Big-Data Muscles
- Big Data: Data Sleuths Counter Security Attacks With Intelligence-Led
- Why Purpose-built Applications are the Key to Big Data Success
- Goodbye Martinis, Hello Big Data
- Need To Solve Big Data Problems? Use Data Jujitsu
I had lunch today with a colleague who at this time shall remain nameless. While we ate our pizza, we chuckled as we worked up some humorous pick up lines . (more)
Mashable Data scientists give marketers exactly what they have always wanted: insights and recommended actions. Here’s how. (more)
From Yahoo! News: Lisa Arthur is the chief marketing officer of Aprimo, one of the world’s leading providers of integrated marketing software and services. (more)
eWeek Enterprise software provider SAP upgraded its array of business intelligence products by improving support for mobile platforms, by adding social features and helping to meet the demand for big data analytics. (more)
ZDNet Summary: Banks have had the advantage when it comes to using financial data to learn more about their customers, but that might soon change with other sources, such as geolocation, proving even better than card data. (more)
Forbes Guest post written by Andy MacMillan Andy MacMillan is senior VP of Product at Data.com, a unit of Salesforce.com. Andy MacMillan In Jurassic Park, John Hammond cloned dinosaurs because he could. The astute Dr. Ian Malcolm was quick to point out that … (more)
Fox Business Big data promises to boost profits and solve problems, but for many companies trying to put it to work, it also has become a big challenge to manage, a new survey shows. (more)
By Maria Deutscher
Unnamed sources leaked this week that VMware and EMC may spin off a few of their assets to form a new firm that will offer cloud services with a strong tie-in with Greenplum. The official announcement could arrive on July 23, when VMware … (more)
Over the course of four seminars the Big Data for the Public Good series presented a rare opportunity for leading data science thinkers innovators and … (more)
By Klint Finley
Today Nodeable launched a new service called StreamReduce, a cloud-hosted real-time big data analytics product. StreamReduce is based on the same architecture as Nodeable’s existing IT operations monitoring tool. The company is … (more)
By Maria Deutscher
Ethernet SAN vendor Coraid announced a new family of products today that offers more scalability and more throughput to accommodate not only traditional workloads but also video and unstructured data. The Coraid ZX-Series NAS servers … (more)
All Access Music Group DATA SCIENCE LONDON, a non-profit community of data scientists, and EMI MUSIC have joined forces to release parts of the EMI Million Interview dataset EMI is building, the deepest and most extensive collection of data on music consumers ever shared. (more)
Real-Time … MarketWatch (press release) “Nodeable’s cloud-based complement to Hadoop means users can process multiple data streams in real-time, enhancing data and making MapReduce jobs more efficient,” said Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera. “As the demand for Hadoop and big data insights … (more)
Network World Even non-programmers can now use the power of Big Data. (more)
MarketWatch (press release) SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Innovative big data retention marketing platform Retention Science launched today in order to provide e-Commerce businesses with actionable data analytics tools to cost-effectively prevent … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jul 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications, today announced high-performance SQL database offerings that deliver new cloud economics while addressing the real-time … (more)
eWeek The health care industry struggles to manage a “data deluge” as doctors try to make sense of electronic health records and collect data for financial and risk management, according to an Oracle report. (more)
Xconomy For the second year in a row, New York’s FinTech Innovation Lab is holding its demo day during a brutal heat wave. But perhaps the weather serves as an apr. (more)
Music Indistry News Network Collaboration Between Music And Data Science Communities To Extract Insights From The Richest And Largest Music Appreciation Dataset Ever Shared. (more)
IT Business Edge (blog) Yet these new technologies fail to address the largest and most expensive source of Big Data in enterprises today: applications that run on relational databases. Businesses worldwide rely on applications that run on databases, including ERP, CRM, HCM, … (more)
Fast Company What if I told you that for every 100 open Big Data jobs, there are only two qualified candidates? I’d like to tell you that. I heard it from a senior leader grumbling about finding adequate prospects. When I asked for the data, he couldn’t find the … (more)
Security Formtek Blog (blog) Intelligence-led Security is a knowledge-based approach to detecting and predicting threats to security. The data sets used in the analysis include things like network packet capture, sensors, compliance monitoring, threat intelligence, and application … (more)
Forbes The explosion of new types of data in great volumes from many different sources that has come to be known as big data has resulted in a false premise that lurks on the sidelines of many discussions. Vendors and often analysts express the idea that you … (more)
ADOTAS From software-powered columnar databases that compress and store data more compactly, to distributed data processing capabilities supported by frameworks like MapReduce and Hadoop, there are now more options (and combinations thereof) available … (more)
Forbes Just as methods for general product development have steadily improved, so have the ideas for developing data products. Thanks to large investments in the general area of data science, many major innovations (e.g., Hadoop, Voldemort, Cassandra, HBase, … (more)