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The Enron email dataset, collected during the FERC investigation of the Enron financial scandal, represents the largest publicly available set of emails. This makes theman ideal testbed for sentiment analysis algorithms. Ikanow's Andrew Strite used the open-source Infinit.e framework a... May. 24, 2013 03:10 PM EDT |
By Bob GourleyThe press release below should be of high interest in the federal technology domain. Most agencies are already at some stage of working with Cloudera, either by directly working with them for support to ongoing enterprise-scale projects or by downloading and using their f... May. 23, 2013 12:56 PM EDT |
Hortonworks Alliance and Support for HCatalog Power Advanced Analytics on Hadoop DataRedwood City, Calif 21 May, 2013 - Organisations are encountering significant challenges running advanced analytics on big data stored in Apache Hadoop. To address this need, Actian today announced gen... May. 21, 2013 10:20 AM EDT Reads: 284 |
 Daryl Taft’s article in eWeek reminded me that next month, on June 6th. IBM’s DB2 RDBMS product will celebrate its 30th. anniversary. This has a personal significance for me. I was part of the DB2 planning team then and on … Continue reading →May. 21, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 887 |
Moscow, Russia, May 21, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Intelligent Converters released new version of MSSQL-to-MySQL, a program to migrate Microsoft SQL databases to MySQL server, enhanced with custom type mapping feature.
Both Microsoft SQL and MySQL database management systems have similar set ... May. 21, 2013 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 417 |
The R core group has quickly followed up with a patch to R version 3. Announced yesterday, R 3.0.1 (code name: "Good Sport") improves serialization performance with big objects, improves reliability for parallel programming and fixes a few minor bugs. (You can find the complete list of... May. 17, 2013 02:38 PM EDT Reads: 227 |
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full May edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Gaming Analytics FTW! ... May. 17, 2013 12:31 PM EDT Reads: 137 |
by Joseph Rickert This past Saturday, the New Frontiers in Computing Conference (NFIC 2013), held at Stanford University, explored the theme: Social Network Analysis: It’s Who You Know. The speakers were a well-chosen, eclectic lot who covered a remarkable array of issues in less than ... May. 16, 2013 02:29 PM EDT Reads: 810 |
Reading, UK 16 May, 2013 - IGEL Technology has appointed Arrow Electronics Inc. as a distributor in the UK. The appointment is an extension of IGEL's European distribution agreement with Arrow, extending its reach into the Citrix and VMware reseller community and helping to strengthen ... May. 16, 2013 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 446 |
Dual Core processors equip IGEL thin clients to handle playback of demanding multimedia content in virtual IT environments.Reading, UK May 16, 2013 - IGEL Technology today met desktop requirements for increased broadband efficiency and computing power head on with its latest generation... May. 16, 2013 05:59 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
Adblock Plus has issued a response in relation to the news that several of the best known German online news publications (Spiegel Online, Sueddeutsche.de, FAZ.net, Zeit, Golem.de and RP Online) have started a joint campaign urging their readers to disable their ad blockers. With over ... May. 15, 2013 11:11 AM EDT Reads: 430 |
Proven blue chip technology partner provides an enterprise vision and real-time view of big data performance and possibilitiesCompanies must be able to predict and automatically action behaviour events before events occur, says SysMech MD SysMech, the big data applications company, has... May. 15, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 275 |
By Bob GourleyTraining a New Generation of Data Scientists Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Time: 2pm Eastern; 11am Pacific Duration: 1 Hour Data scientists, the professionals who straddle the line between statistician and software engineer, are in demand like never before. This scarcity ... May. 11, 2013 06:38 PM EDT Reads: 312 |
 When Lori and I were writing import/export routines for a large software vendor, we had a phrase to remind ourselves that what we loved was not necessarily the all-important part of what we were doing. We used to say “It’s all about the data”, almost as a mantra, to keep our team (I wa...May. 10, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,001 |
This June 23-25 the CloudStack Community is holding their second open source cloud computing users conference in Santa Clara, CA. The conference is also your opportunity to share ideas, discuss plans for Apache CloudStack, and conduct workshops and sprints. There will be a hacker space... May. 9, 2013 02:07 PM EDT Reads: 839 |
Albert Einstein, you may have heard, was a clever man. He scribbled equations on blackboards, thought big thoughts, and all of that. But, allegedly, he also said Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. These words have resonated with me recently, as I’ve... May. 9, 2013 10:10 AM EDT Reads: 387 |
 How do you know whether you are dealing with Big Data or Small Data? I’m constantly asked for my definition of “Big Data”. Well, here it is…for batch analytics.
Queries are complex requiring many concurrent data modifications, a rich breadth of operators, and many selectivity constrai...May. 8, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 913 |
EMC ViPR software defined object storage part III
By Greg Schulz
This is part III in a series of posts pertaining to EMC ViPR software defined storage and object storage. You can read part I here and part II here.
More on the object opportunity
Other object acces... May. 7, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,013 |
by Thomas Dinsmore On April 26, SAS published on its website an undated Technical Paper entitled Big Data Analytics: Benchmarking SAS, R and Mahout. In the paper, the authors (Allison J. Ames, Ralph Abbey and Wayne Thompson) describe a recent project to compare model quality, product c... May. 7, 2013 11:42 AM EDT Reads: 337 |
Deux visions de l’avenir de l’informatique professionnelle vont s’affronter au cours des 5 prochaines années. Les entreprises, les fournisseurs vont devoir choisir leur camp et ...« Vae victis », malheur aux vaincus ! Une profonde redistribution des positions dans le... May. 7, 2013 11:22 AM EDT Reads: 919 |
 Are you AWS certified?
Last week several reporters, including Gathering Clouds friend in the field Barb Darrow, analyzed Amazon’s recent announcement of its cloud certification program. Widely seen as a positive move for the company, the announcement does raise some questions.
While ...May. 7, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,553 |
By Bob GourleyOn Thursday 9 May 2013 two technologists I deeply respect will be providing a webinar (sponsored by Carahsoft) on achieving enterprise success with Hadoop. The following is from the event announcement. Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise... May. 6, 2013 10:20 PM EDT Reads: 319 |
By Ryan KamauffOne of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should “root.” Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs “superuser” access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the operating system, enabli... May. 6, 2013 01:24 PM EDT Reads: 917 |
By Bob GourleyThe following is the meat from our monthly tech trends report. You can have this delivered to your email each month by visiting our newsletter signup page. Over the last several months we continued to see foundations being established for dramatic positive change in the f... May. 2, 2013 07:43 PM EDT Reads: 1,730 |
New functionality gives producers control over application update experience, enables valuable analytics by collecting anonymised system and application data, and simplifies update for enterprise customersMaidenhead, UK - May 2, 2013 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Applicat... May. 2, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 581 |
Apache and Nginx web servers both expose a very nice interface for polling the web server status via HTTP, providing you with useful counters for statistics and up-time. May. 2, 2013 04:10 AM EDT Reads: 194 |
TIBCO and Teradata Enable CIOs to Extract Actionable Insights from Real-Time Event Streams to Deliver the Two-Second AdvantagePALO ALTO, Calif, May 1, 2013 - TIBCO Software (NASDAQ: TIBX), one of the world's leading providers of analytics and event processing software, and Teradata (NY... May. 1, 2013 02:38 PM EDT Reads: 564 |
Berlin, Germany, May 01, 2013 --(PR.com)-- First Beta version of WinRAR 5.0 released
Latest Version of WinRAR features a new and advanced archive format which makes archiving faster, more efficient and secure compared to previous versions of WinRAR.
win.rar GmbH and RARLAB present t... May. 1, 2013 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 565 |
By Bob GourleyDear readers, We really appreciate your inputs on all matters. Please keep your thoughts coming to us via any path easy for you. We would especially appreciate it if you take a minute to fill out our survey form below. We are looking for information that can help us prod... Apr. 30, 2013 03:36 PM EDT Reads: 1,369 |
Last year the Open Data Center Alliance published an excellent whitepaper that defined the concept of “cloud-aware” applications. The ODCA paper sets forth the following recommendations: Everything is a Service Use RESTful APIs Separate Compute and Persistence Design for F... Apr. 30, 2013 03:08 PM EDT Reads: 500 |
By Bob GourleyMarkLogic has announced a 9 May webinar featuring Chris Biow, CTO of MarkLogic, in an overview on lessons learned, tips and techniques designed to accelerate fielding of Hadoop-based solutions. Their invite is below: Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop show... Apr. 30, 2013 01:47 PM EDT Reads: 402 |
by Thomas Dinsmore On April 26, SAS published on its website an undated Technical Paper entitled Big Data Analytics: Benchmarking SAS, R and Mahout. In the paper, the authors (Allison J. Ames, Ralph Abbey and Wayne Thompson) describe a recent project to compare model quality, product c... Apr. 30, 2013 11:36 AM EDT Reads: 452 |
Major retailers like Williams Sonoma use UpStream Software for marketing analytics, including revenue attribution, targeting, and optimization. In the video below Tess Nesbitt (senior statistician at UpStream) describes how she uses Revolution R Enterprise and Hadoop to figure out the ... Apr. 29, 2013 03:26 PM EDT Reads: 223 |
If you are a Software Engineer/Computer Science student, you must have heard about Google Summer of Code. If you are searching for project ideas for GSoC 2013, please see the current Apache Tuscany project ideas: TUSCANY-4077 Enhance Tuscany Widget support The Tuscany Widget Impleme... Apr. 29, 2013 12:59 PM EDT Reads: 309 |
Combines the benefits of Virtual Private Server hosting with OnApp cloud management capabilities across the U.S. and Canada; New VPS platform deployed in seven days, achieved ROI in three days London, UK - April 29, 2013 - OnApp has announced that Cartika, one of the largest hosting an... Apr. 29, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 873 |
 In-Q-Tel just posted a press release on a recent strategic partnership and technology development agreement with a firm called Apigee. That statement alone is all the savvy technologist needs to know to start diving into Apigee. In-Q-Tel has a reputation for applying lots of focused th...Apr. 28, 2013 09:35 PM EDT Reads: 1,091 |
This weekend I was at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, Wa. I had the opportunity to see a lot of interesting talks. Here’s the talk I gave LinuxFest NW 2013: Hitchhiker’s Guide to Open Source Cloud Computing . Abstract: Imagine it’s eight o’clock on a Thursday morning and... Apr. 28, 2013 04:08 PM EDT Reads: 843 |
By Bob GourleyI really hope to see you at the 7 May 2013 Cloudera Session in DC. This event is loaded with lessons learned, advice and information you can use to reduce risk in your big data solution deployments. Here is more from our last post on the event. Check out the agenda and t... Apr. 26, 2013 06:36 PM EDT Reads: 1,061 |
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full April edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. Now Available: Revol... Apr. 26, 2013 02:49 PM EDT Reads: 583 |
As the Big Data hype machine continues its relentless attempt to gobble everything in its path, new business units and entire new domains buying into the promise find themselves faced with unanticipated data volume and complexity. They see the potential for data-based decision making, ... Apr. 26, 2013 07:44 AM EDT Reads: 756 |
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