Archiving Everything with Hadoop
Archiving Everything with Hadoop By Mark Cusack, Chief Architect, RainStor. December 2014. Perhaps the most widespread use of Hadoop today is as an archive or ‘data lake.’ In this use-case, data from a whole...
Author: Roberto Zicari
Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics
Spark Mllib: Machine Learning library for Analytics by Dr. Christopher Burdorf, software engineer at NBC Universal. — December 11, 2014 The Spark cluster computing framework has an extensive machine library called Mllib which is...
Big Data: Three questions to FoundationDB.
Big Data: Three questions to FoundationDB. Dave Rosenthal, CEO FoundationDB. Q1. What is your current product offering? Today we announced version 3.0 of our flagship product, the FoundationDB Key-Value Store. 3.0 comes with the same...
Browsing Linked Data Forest
Browsing Linked Data Forest by Paolo Nesi, University of Florence. — December 2014 I started several years ago on parallel architectures for semantic computing, mainly for addressing back office problems behind large media companies...
Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015
Five FS Tech Predictions for 2015 by Rupert Brown, CTO Financial Services at MarkLogic, December 5, 2014. A financial services company will suffer a major tier-1 system outage due to a failed Outsourced Database Schema...
Big Data Fest: Data, tools & practice
Big Data Fest Data, tools & practice by Genoveva Vargas Solar, Senior Scientist, CNRS Genoveva.Vargas@imag.fr Regina Motz, Prof. Universidad de la República regina.motz@gmail.com Javier Alfonso Espinosa Oviedo, Postdoctoral fellow, LAFMIA javiera.espinosa@imag.fr Technical support Plácido...
Learning Data Modeling
Video Training Tutorials By Michael Blaha Learning Data Modeling Level: Intermediate Instructor: Michael Blaha Length: 8 hours Lessons: 122 Released: 2014-11-27 In this Learning Data Modeling training course, expert author Michael Blaha will teach...
Critical Questions in the Governance of Health Care Big Data
Critical Questions in the Governance of Health Care Big Data by Richard Self, University of Derby.– 26 November 2014. Various reports claim that the use of Big Data Analytics in health care can improve efficiency...
Dr. Christopher Burdorf, NBC Universal.
Christopher Burdorf has extensive experience in research and development applied to distributed systems and computer graphics for the entertainment industry, academia, and military. He holds a Phd in Mathematics from the University of Bath,...
What is Docker and why use it?
What is Docker and why use it? by Bigstep Cloud Limited, November 2014. Docker is the “poster child” of the containerization movement but is it here to stay? Despite the buzz, many application developers...