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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). What is Big Data? This definition was published in an article entitled “What is Big Data?”

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30 July Analytics Forum: A cross-sector gathering of the greatest minds in analytics

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0800-0810 – Welcome Remarks: Bob Gourley, Publisher of Analyst One and CTOvision.com, and Co-Founder and Partner of Cognitio; and Keith Masback, Chief Executive Officer, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF ). 0815-0845 – Keynote: Jeff Jonas, IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing, IBM.

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The IBM Press Release on Spark That Every Tech Leader Should Read

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IBM just announced a major new push around Apache Spark. You know Spark, the free and open source complement to Apache Hadoop that gives enterprises better ability to field fast, unified applications that combine multiple workloads, including streaming over all your data. Spark today is production ready for many workloads.

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National Security Software On Wall Street: Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Comments

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Cognitio's Roger Hockenberry provided context in this report: “Both Wall Street and the intelligence world want the same thing: to find unknown unknowns in the data,” said Roger Hockenberry, the former chief technology officer of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine services and now a partner at the consulting firm Cognitio Corp.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Arvin Patel. Qumulo Photo).

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Five Ways to Advance your Career with Modern Data Architecture

The Investing Edge

Guest post by Todd Christy, Slalom Consulting and member of Ascent’s Technical Advisory Board. If you’re one of the 75 million drivers covered by the largest US roadside services provider you may experience the real value of “big data” when your tow truck arrives promptly to swap your tire or fill your tank.

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Breakfast Discussion 22 Oct on Empowering Cloud Utilization in the Federal Market: Increasing Utilization While Driving Down Risk

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He has 15 years of experience in training and simulation software development followed by 14 years of hardware development, 9 of which were in high performance computing with IBM System x Intelligent Clusters. This event is brought to you by Bright Computing. This event is organized by Cognitio.

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