Daily Big Data Feed – Oct 23, 2012

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

  • More Big Data news: Datameer, Nominum/IBM, Actuate/Quiterian
  • ZDNet This afternoon, I posted what I thought was all of today’s Big Data news, including announcements from IBM, Cisco, Tervela, and SiSense. But it turns out there’s more. Tomorrow you’ll be reading all about Apple’s announcements, so there’s no time like … (more)

  • Big Data Startup Continuuity Comes Out Of Stealth Mode
  • Forbes The founders of Continuuity have some deep domain expertise when it comes to Big Data. Todd Papaioannou was Chief Cloud Architect at Yahoo!, VP Architecture at Teradata, and Chief Architect Director of Engineering at Greenplum. Co-founder Jonathan … (more)

  • Data Scientist Info Security Specialist Job In United States …
  • Data Scientist- Info. Security Specialist Job; Location: United States; Risk Type: Academic; Company: VISA; (more)

  • EMC and Kaggle Partner to Enable On-Demand Data Scientist Workforce
  • Sacramento Bee EMC Corporation, through its Greenplum division, and Kaggle today joined forces to tackle the short supply and heavy demand for data scientists with an integration between the Kaggle data science community and EMC Greenplum Chorus, the platform for … (more)

  • Greenplum and Kaggle Partner to Connect OpenChorus Users with …
  • By Paul M. Davis
    Kaggle, the online platform for data science competitions, is unique in that it has attracted a community of thousands of skilled practitioners. Moreover, its competitive structure encourages quick iteration, learning, and allows leading data … (more)

  • Creating Big Data’s Talent Mart
  • New York Times (blog) EMC’s Greenplum division, which makes data analytics software, is joining forces with Kaggle, a company that finds and deploys people good at statistical inference, to produce a kind of Big Data engineer marketplace. Customers of a Greenplum product … (more)

  • Gartner: Big Data Will Generate 6 Million US Jobs by 2015
  • IT Business Edge (blog) In addition, every Big Data-related role in the United States will create employment for three people outside of IT, pushing the total to 6 million U.S. jobs, Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president at Gartner and global head of research, told those … (more)

  • MapR Promises A Better HBase
  • InformationWeek Because it runs on Hadoop, HBase promises both scalability and the economy of sharing the same infrastructure as the world’s most popular big data processing platform. HBase offers higher scalability than NoSQL products such as MongoDB, according to … (more)

  • Big Data Drives Big IT Spending | Big Data
  • InformationWeek Big Data is a timely, expert source of news, analysis, and case studies on big data issues impacting enterprise IT groups and information … (more)