The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreTitles can be misleading. For example, the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference took place in San Jose, California, this week but…
Read MoreDruid, an open source database designed for real-time analysis, is moving to the Apache 2 software license in order to hopefully spur…
Read MoreI have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it’s…
Read MoreGigaom’s Structure Data conference is less than a month away, kicking off March 18 in New York. There are a lot of…
Read MoreGoogle announced on Wednesday that the company is open sourcing a MapReduce framework that will let users run native C and C++…
Read MoreBlueTalon, a database security startup that launched last year around the goal of enabling secure data collaboration, has shifted its focus to…
Read MoreHadoop vendor Cloudera announced on Tuesday that the company’s “[p]reliminary unaudited total revenue surpassed $100 million” in 2014. That the company, which…
Read MoreFirst it was Jeopardy!, then it was cancer, e-commerce and cooking. Now, IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system is powering a line of…
Read MorePivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire…
Read MoreAs deep learning continues gathering steam among researchers, entrepreneurs and the press, there’s a loud-and-getting-louder debate about whether its algorithms actually operate…
Read MoreMicrosoft researchers claim in a recently published paper that they have developed the first computer system capable of outperforming humans on a…
Read MoreI’m trying really hard to write less about business intelligence and analytics software. We get it: Data is important to businesses, and the…
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