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HPE’s Haven at the Big Data Conference

Sep 07, 2016

Last week was HPE’s Big Data Conference. It was well worth attending, as it turned out, and not just for conversations with HPE engineers and the plethora of Big Data case study presentations. HPE had scheduled two significant announcements for the show. One was a new version of Vertica and the other, which truly sparked my interest and which I...Go To Article

Cloud Shift Is Real, Happening, Imminent — and Behind Schedule? — Upside

Sep 07, 2016

Cloud Shift Is Real, Happening, Imminent -- and Behind Schedule? When technology historians try to pinpoint the precise period when the cloud took off, they'd do well to focus on late July and early August of 2016. The space of a single week saw Oracle's $9.3 billion acquisition of software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant NetSuite, a strong Amazon Q2 earnings report that...Go To Article

 

Data architectures for streaming applications

Sep 22, 2016

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Dean Wampler on streaming data applications and cloud computing.

How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow

Sep 21, 2016

Deep learning and a large public training data set called ImageNet has made an impressive amount of progress toward object recognition.

How to Achieve Reliable Customer Data

Sep 21, 2016

Reliable customer data is crucial for the success of any business.

3D ‘unwrapping’ tools let scientists read an ancient Hebrew scroll

Sep 21, 2016

The tools could have important uses beyond the realm of antiquities.

We’ve Already Failed at Big Data — Now What?

Sep 20, 2016

Executives and technophiles rushed to acquire big data solutions faster than you could say "Wikipedia."

What the iPhone 7 reveals about Apple’s augmented-reality plans

Sep 20, 2016

Tim Cook can’t stop talking about how big an opportunity augmented reality represents.

The highest rent in the U.S. belongs to venture capitalists in Silicon Valley

Sep 19, 2016

Today’s rents are still nowhere near what landlords demanded in early 2008 before the financial crisis.

Apache Spark Earns Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards for Machine Learning, Real-time Analytics, and More

Sep 19, 2016

The Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards recognized the sweeping changes Apache Spark is bringing to the Big Data landscape with four awards.

Map highlights Australia’s 500,000 dirt tracks, roads and highways

Sep 16, 2016

The roads data came freely available topographic mapping datasets from Geoscience Australia.

100 tiny robots replaced humans in this queue for the iPhone 7

Sep 15, 2016

New Zealand-based Apple carrier Spark used robots to queue for the much coveted device.

Can growth actually hurt your small business?

Sep 14, 2016

How other entrepreneurs approach growth and then go forth and make your business a runaway hit.

Self-Service Data Access: The Foundation for Emerging Analytics

Sep 14, 2016

A wide range of user types have the right tools and skills to do their own data provisioning.

Profile: So You Want to Be a (Data Science) Rock Star

Sep 13, 2016

What can push you to creative and ingenious work.

Event Source Yourself a Hash Map

Sep 12, 2016

Event sourcing is an architectural pattern where you persist commands to mutate your data instead of overwriting the old values.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Data Science, Machine Learning, R, Python

Sep 09, 2016

This will be most valuable to any data practitioner who has very little free time.

The Business Bandwagon You Should Never Miss

Sep 09, 2016

Digital Transformation is here and that means everyone must embrace the disruptions.

Apache CloudStack allows DevOps teams to seamlessly provision compute, storage, and network resources

Sep 08, 2016

Public cloud providers choose CloudStack because it provides all of the capabilities required to deliver multi-tenant IaaS services.

HPE’s Haven at the Big Data Conference

Sep 07, 2016

We had "Bloor on the floor" at this big event!

This 24-core, 16GB smartphone is likely vaporware

Sep 07, 2016

The iPhone 7 was unveiled and many are already bashing Apple for its lack of innovation.

Analytics Teams: Own The Business Problem, Not An Infrastructure

Sep 05, 2016

Analytics teams have to pragmatically support business access to data.

Become a Big Data pro with lifetime access to over 130 analytics courses, now just $39

Sep 04, 2016

One thing that virtually all successful businesses today have in common?

Baidu Open-Sources Python-Driven Machine Learning Framework

Sep 02, 2016

Many of the latest machine learning and data science tools purport to be easy to work with

Is the Cloud Finally Ready for Big Data?

Aug 31, 2016

Three waves of technological innovation

Is the Build It Here Approach to Data-as-Service Right For You?

Aug 31, 2016

Getting Your Data Business Ready

Most Federal Agencies Using Analytics In Their Cyber Security Fight

Aug 31, 2016

59% of the respondents saying their agency deals with a cyber security compromise at least once a month

Databricks Bi-Weekly Digest

Aug 31, 2016

Here’s our recap of what’s transpired with Apache Spark since our previous digest

The Reason So Many Analytics Efforts Fall Short

Aug 29, 2016

Only a little more than one in three of the three-dozen companies that we studied met the objectives of their analytics initiatives over the long term

#AboutLastWeek: Java influencers, Innovation Awards, JAX Mag in a nutshell

Aug 29, 2016

Who are the most influential Java people in the Twittersphere?

Companies die when they’re afraid to fail, Quip CEO Bret Taylor says

Aug 29, 2016

As Facebook’s CTO Bret Taylor learned to appreciate the nuanced art of making and correcting mistakes at scale

Events

AWS re:Invent

Nov 28, 2022 Las Vegas, NV

Join us again this year in Las Vegas for our biggest, most comprehensive, and most vibrant event in cloud computing.

AI & Big Data Expo 2022

Oct 05, 2022 Santa Clara, CA

This technology event is for the ambitious enterprise technology professional, seeking to explore the latest innovations, implementations and strategies to drive businesses forward.

Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit

Oct 04, 2022 Austin, TX

Join the first-ever data streaming industry event at Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit. You’ll be able to immerse yourself in all things real-time data with peers.

O’Reilly Open Source Convention

May 16, 2016 Austin

OSCON covers FLOSS in its entirety. Not just one language, tool, or philosophy, but all the moving parts integrated and working together.

99U 2016

May 05, 2016 New York

The goal of the 99U Conference is to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Providing road-tested insights

Consensus 2016: Making Blockchain Real

May 02, 2016 New York

Consensus 2016 will define what is “real” in blockchain technology and focus on how to mainstream real-world applications for consumers.