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AtScale simplifies BI on Hadoop with new release
AtScale, which offers a self-service Business Intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop, is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to run Big Data analytics atop of their Hadoop clusters. Hadoop has gained a lot of traction among enterprises in recent years, with many companies hopeful that it can power their BI operations and deliver useful ...
Global majority wants the dark web to be shut down
The reputation of the so-called Dark Web, the part of the Internet that can only be accessed via anonymity tools like the Tor browser and at one time home to the notorious Silk Road website, has gotten so bad that more than two out of three people would like to see it shut down. That ...
Apache Spark will dominate the Big Data landscape by 2022, Wikibon says
The Apache Spark Big Data processing framework will account for more than a third of all Big Data spending by 2022, according to new research by Wikibon. Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert’s latest report, Forecasting Spark’s Adoption in the Context of Systems of Intelligence, is the first-ever forecast on the Spark industry and how ...
Wikibon names IBM as #1 Big Data vendor by revenue
Wikibon has just released its latest 2015 Big Data Market Shares report, highlighting the hardware, software, and services vendors that are likely to lead a Big Data market that’s set to hit $92.2 billion by 2026, according to the research firm’s latest projections. Wikibon’s latest figures show the overall Big Data market grew from $18.3 ...
Wikibon forecasts Big Data market to hit $92.2B by 2026
The global big data market will grow from $18.3 billion in 2014 to a whopping $92.2 billion by 2026, representing a strong compound annual growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to Wikibon’s newly published 2016 – 2026 Worldwide big data Market Forecast. The research firm called 2015 “a breakthrough year for big data”, with the market ...
Altiscale teams up with Tableau Software to simplify Big Data analysis
Big Data-as-a-Service provider Altiscale Inc. wants to make it easier than ever for its customers to get to grips with their data, and its teaming up with Tableau Software to do just that. The two companies have just announced a strategic partnership they say will “bring the visual agility of Tableau to Altiscale customers” at ...
“Big Red” keeps pace with VMware with Oracle VM 3.4
Oracle has just updated its virtualization software, bringing it up to speed with its more illustrious rivals VMware Inc. and Microsoft. The newly released Oracle VM 3.4 is the first edition of the software to feature storage live migration, something that’s been available in VMware’s more popular vSphere offering for some time (as well as ...
Fortress Google: A sneak peek at Google’s data center security systems
With defensive measures in place like dual authentication systems, vehicle-access barriers, high-resolution cameras, laser beam intrusion detection systems, biometric iris scanners and electronic access cards, you’d think we were describing a “Supermax” prison, or the U.S. Air Force’s notorious Area 51, or perhaps The United States Bullion Depository located within Fort Knox. Actually, we’re not. ...
Galactic Exchange can get your Hadoop cluster up and running in just 5 minutes
Stealthy startup Galactic Exchange Inc. burst out of the shadows this weekend touting a new product that’s able to spin up an Hadoop or Spark cluster, ready to go, in just five minutes. By doing so, it eliminates much of the complexity from what has traditionally been an extremely complex job. Galactic Exchange is set ...
Microsoft touts “Holoportation” with HoloLens for remote meet ups
Microsoft’s research division has developed a new kind of 3D video capture system it’s calling “holoportation”, which allows people to be ‘rendered’ in 3D inside any environment. You can think of it as a kind of inverse “holodeck”, as seen in the famous Star Trek TV series. Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies group released a ...