Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 17, 2012

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

  • LINQing .NET and Hadoop

    • Visual Studio Magazine As Big Data becomes more critical, the tools that connect the data to various development environments take on increasing importance. For .NET developers, gaps continue to exist, but they’re getting filled more quickly than ever, making … (more)

  • Big Data: Much Hadoop about Nothing?

    • Forbes Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the city and my team and I will be there to talk about the … (more)

  • Data Scientist Role Is Clear, Even If Job Description Isn’t

    • CIO The data scientist job, as well as the job title, is a mashup of existing expertise that is generally a few steps removed from the everyday realities of the businesses that employ them. Like most mashups, though, this is leading to something equally … (more)

  • Seeking Recruits with Diverse Backgrounds to Fill Severe Shortage of Big

    • Data … Computerworld India “Something in data science gets your creative juices flowing when you see something that you built for an entirely different purpose can be used in all of these other ways,” he says. Data science also excites companies that want to use the data they’ve … (more)

  • Big data to drive $28B in IT spend

    • ZDNet Specifically, social network and content analysis had the most impact on big data budgets, and projected to account for 45 percent of new IT spending each year, Gartner said. Application infrastructure and middleware would account for 10 percent of … (more)

  • PROS Big Data Innovations Take Center Stage at Professional Pricing

    • Society … Investor’s Business Daily PROS Big Data Innovations Take Center Stage at Professional Pricing Society Spring Conference. By BUSINESS WIREBUSINESS WIRE12655 Beatrice Street Los Angeles CA 90066. USA , Investor’s Business DailyInvestor’s Business DailyInvestors.com … (more)

  • : Gartner Says Big Data Will Drive 28 Billion of IT Spending in 2012

    • MENAFN.COM Oct 17, 2012 (Menafn – M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) –Big data will drive 28 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2013, big data is forecast to drive 34 billion of IT spending. Most of the current spending is used in … (more)

  • Three Career Secrets for Aspiring Data Scientists

    • Software Advice (blog) So what does a data scientist look like? Bruno Aziza, VP of Worldwide Marketing at SiSense, notes that he finds the most successful data scientists can expertly manipulate databases, collaborate with team members and successfully relay analyses to … (more)

  • Data Scientist Role Is Clear, Even If Job Description Isn’t

    • PC Advisor A recent Harvard Business Review article made more than a few headlines with its own headline: Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century. It would have been hard to image the words “data,” “scientist” and “sexy” in the same sentence, let … (more)

  • Teradata Launches Hadoop-Based Aster Big Analytics Appliance

    • eWeek Teradata has announced its Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance, which brings together open source Apache Hadoop and Teradata Aster into a single integrated and optimized appliance. Leveraging Teradata Aster SQL-MapReduce and Aster SQL-H, the … (more)

  • 3 Big Data Insights from the Grandfather of Google Glass

    • Forbes Pentland is also head of the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship program, and has co-founded or served in an advisory role to several big data analytics startups such as Ginger.io and Sense Networks. In addition to his many other roles, this gives him a … (more)