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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?”, What is Big Data? The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures.

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NGA and DigitalGlobe Release Powerful Application To Community Under Open Source License

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For those readers who may not be very familiar with how government works, let me assure you, this is a really big deal. -bg. From NGA''s Press Release: NGA, DigitalGlobe application a boon to raster data storage, processing. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA'

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DATS002: Big Data Meets High Performance Computing

Scott Lowe

This is session DATS002, titled “Big Data Meets High Performance Computing.” Hengeveld starts the session by reminding attendees that Big Data is really about the insights that are gained from the data. Big Data isn’t about the data, it’s about the insight and understanding.

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Alluxio: A virtual distributed storage system orders of magnitude faster than others

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The world's first memory-centric distributed storage system bridges applications and underlying storage systems providing unified data access orders of magnitudes faster than existing solutions. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model. Alluxio, Inc.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and implications for interactions between government and citizens

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In the commercial world, Big Data and AI are closely related, with the most impactful AI being done by processing huge data sets and doing extreme learning against those data sets. We can now envision entirely new ways of conceiving health insurance– if you take big data/machine learning approach.

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

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Posting the code to open source forums allows the private sector and others to examine the agency’s research up close, and potentially benefit from it through additional enhancements and applications. “Their research breakthroughs often have broad, commercial applications, too. Burger, Director of the NSA TTP.

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DARPA Open Catalog: A repository of DARPA-sponsored software and publications

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XDATA is developing an open source software library for big data. A description of the project is followed by the applicable software license. Analysis Big Data CTO' DARPA has an open source strategy through XDATA and other I2O programs to help increase the impact of government investments.

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