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You Can’t Do Machine Learning Inside a Database. Can You?
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Yes, you can. Java, Python, and R algorithms can be trained, tested and put into production inside proprietary or open source analytical databases. That’s not right. You have to use Spark or something if you want to Read more…
Former Vertica CEO Takes Helm at AtScale
Chris Lynch, who previously ran Vertica before it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, has been hired as the new CEO of AtScale, the company announced yesterday. The change in leadership was necessary to take the com Read more…
Machine Learning: No Longer the ‘Fine China’ of Analytics, HPE Says
Machine learning has become a core component of companies' analytic initiatives and is no longer the "fine china" only brought out for special occasions, according to a manager with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, which toda Read more…
How Intuit Personalizes TurboTax Experiences with Big Data
If you're like millions of Americans who use TurboTax, you know how the program makes preparing your individual tax return easy—at least compared to actually reading and understanding the 70,000-page tax code. What you Read more…
The Big Data Behind Shell’s Super-Efficient Car Races
Most Americans are interested in the fuel efficiency of automobiles these days, a byproduct of higher gas prices and the growing acceptance of manmade climate change. But for the students who participated in last weekend Read more…
Actian Claims ‘Permanent Performance Advantage’ with SQL-on-Hadoop Tool
The SQL-on-Hadoop sweepstakes are by no means over. What's been dubbed the "gateway drug" for Hadoop is just starting to gain traction. But according to Actian, its SQL-on-Hadoop offering, dubbed Vortex, is out to an ear Read more…
Avoiding Big IT Outlays with Cloud-Based Analytics
If your organization has adopted a big data strategy, chances are good that it's also making big capital outlays to support that strategy. One firm that's hoping to short-circuit the hardware and software investment cycle is GoodData. Today the San Francisco company announced the addition of Hadoop to its cloud-based big data analytics stack, giving it the capability to ingest and store a whole new level of data. Read more…
Bridging the Old BI World with Big Data Analytics
We're in the middle of a revolution in data analytics, where old beliefs and approaches are being discarded as new technologies emerge. One data analytics software company that's aiming bridge the gap between the old and the new is Looker, which today unveiled new software designed to help companies retain the richness of big data without overwhelming users with all the gory details. Read more…
Getting to Optimal: An HP Vertica Query Tale
Query optimizers are, by their nature, not perfect. While there is theoretically an "optimal" way to execute any given database query, finding that perfect path through the database's innards takes too much time and resources, so a "good enough" approach is used. A similar story unfolded at HP Vertica in the development of the query optimizer itself, which also affected how the column-oriented database would be positioned to tackle big data problems of the future. Read more…
Giving Big Data a Sporting Chance
With new information collection techniques adding millions of rows of statistics to the virtual box score, improving a sports team is rapidly becoming a big data problem. A panel led by Jason Bailey, HP Vertica Senior Market Manager, discussed the current and future place of big data in solving the problems of the sporting world. Read more…
HP Diving Deeper into R Parallelization
Despite R’s popularity as a statistical tool, its single-threaded nature might be a short-coming in scaling its use as a tool for big data applications. Not if they can help it, says HP. Read more…
ParAccel Lifts Hood on CARFAX Overhaul
In the wake of their competitors being gobbled up by giants and their announcement today of a new connector to Hadoop, we step back and look at how analytical platforms like ParAccel's are handling large amounts of complex data for companies like CARFAX, which recently put the company in the driver's seat following limitations from their legacy.... Read more…
Is Boston the Next Bastion for Big Data?
A recent report from the Mass Technology Leadership Council cited a number of examples of big data and analytics companies that are thriving in the Bay State and offered a few insights about why Boston and big data might go hand in hand... Read more…
HP Leverages Acquisitions, Firms Up Big Data Approach
Today HP made a number of key announcements relevant to their big data strategy. These new additions to their enterprise approach take advantage of technology gleaned from recent buys, including Vertica and Autonomy. Read more…
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