Tag Archives: Cloudera

18 October 2012: TechWorld

UK Government in Talks to Use Hadoop for Big Data Analytics Excerpt: Speaking to Techworld at the IP Expo in London yesterday, Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop and chief architect at Cloudera, said that he had met with the UK … Continue reading

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25 July 2012: techCloud9

Dell Goes for Big Data Storage Excerpt: Dell’s new Big Data retention solution is designed for organisations that leverage big data analytics to derive business value from their data. The solution integrates with existing analytics platforms as a front-end big data … Continue reading

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Tap the 90’s Sam Kumarsamy Raises a Glass at Drinks and Data

Drinks and Data 18 June 2012 – 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA 111 Minna was an eclectic and trendy venue for Big Data SF Bay’s Drinks and Data, a fitting follow-up to the very successful Big Data Drink Up held … Continue reading

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5 June 2012: ZDNet

Revolution R v6.0 Comes to Town Excerpt: R is all over the Big Data world, and yet it’s not exclusively a Big Data technology.  At its core, R is an open source programming language for mathematical and statistical analysis.  And … Continue reading

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[Business] Business Intelligence vs. Data Analytics

Are the terms Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Analytics interchangeable? Are they different terms for the same concept? The short answer: No. Business intelligence was a term coined in the 1990s when data warehousing was used as a technology to report … Continue reading

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