Daily Big Data Feed – May 20, 2013

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

  • Making Hadoop Elephants Drink From Silverlake
  • IT Jungle In last week’s issue, I talked generally about big data and the use of tools like the Hadoop big data muncher created by Yahoo to emulate the very early unstructured data processing and related file system created by Google to power its search engine. (more)

  • IBM Analytics Help Arad Group Manage Big Data for Water Meter Solutions
  • Stockhouse Big Data and analytics technology helps clients harness the explosion of data coming from a growing number of resources — including data collected from utility meter readings and sensors. Arad Group is working with IBM to integrate the latest … (more)

  • Critics of big data have overlooked the speed factor
  • The Guardian (blog) Big data is among the computing neologisms du jour, and a technology conference in 2013 is rarely considered complete without a smattering of uses, typically accompanied by further volume-related qualifiers (tsunamis of big data being by far the worst … (more)

  • Software AG’s Terracotta backs symposium on big data’s potential for the …
  • Al-Bawaba Terracotta Inc., a leading developer of in-memory technology and a wholly-owned subsidiary of enterprise software specialist Software AG, lent its full support to the Big Data Symposium held today (May 20, 2013) at the Habtoor Grand in Dubai. (more)

  • Alteryx Raises $12 Million to Put Big Data Analytics in the Hands of All …
  • Sacramento Bee “Alteryx is enabling our customers to Humanize Big Data and answer the critical business questions that can accelerate their growth,” said Dean Stoecker, chairman and chief executive officer at Alteryx. “But to find these answers, business analysts … (more)

  • Web Analytics Data Scientist | Millennium Search
  • If your preference lies with startups, and you can turn descriptive analytics into predictive analytics to drive strategy for a rapid growth company, this role offers … (more)

  • Marketing, Big Data Tech IPOs Get Rousing Market Welcome – E-Commerce Times
  • E-Commerce Times Marketo and Tableau Software are having strong launches as public companies, indicating investors are excited about the growth in enterprise software markets that target niches such as Big Data and marketing automation. Tableau Software, which designs … (more)

  • A sensible approach to big data
  • Network World Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social … (more)

  • The Obama Campaign’s Chief Data Scientist on the Future of Civic Data
  • Chicagomag.com He’s taking a role as chief data scientist for the new Computation Institute’s Urban Center for Computation and Data (a multidisciplinary organization focusing on the use of data at the civic level), directing a data science fellowship for social good … (more)

  • What it Takes to be a Big Data Analyst
  • CloudTimes While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst on the other hand performs data analysis on a particular system only. In short, a big data analyst is some sort of an … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – May 20, 2013

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily Log News Feed – May 20, 2013

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily Identity News Feed – May 20, 2013

Daily identity-related news feed from @trustpath, TrustPath.

Daily Big Data Feed – May 19, 2013

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

Daily Cloud Feed – May 19, 2013

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.