It’s time for the enterprise to seize the opportunity to build new applications and processes based on a synthesis of meaningful data brought together from diverse systems. Doing so requires some key things, though, starting with a database platform that supports seamlessly integrating the data and ensuring that it is understandable at the conceptual level. […]
New Wikibon Report Shows Big Data Projects Moving to the Cloud
by Angela Guess Paul Gillin reports in SiliconAngle, “Big data projects are ready to move to the cloud on a large scale, but a host of concerns about regulations, ownership and the structural impediments of moving large amounts of data off-site will limit mass adoption of public cloud platforms, says a new Wikibon report. The […]
The Elephant in the Cloud, According to Ashish Thusoo
by Angela Guess Srini Penchikala recently wrote in InfoQ, “Ashish Thusoo, CEO and co-founder at Qubole, recently spoke at Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) about ‘The Elephant in the Cloud’, Hadoop as a Service offering. Part of a wider trend of big data as a service category rather than a product category, Hadoop as a […]
Nervana Systems Brings AI to the Cloud
by Angela Guess Jeremy Hsu recently wrote in Spectrum IEEE, “Deep learning is Silicon Valley’s latest and greatest attempt at training artificial intelligence to understand the world by sifting through huge amounts of data. A startup called Nervana Systems aims to make AI based on deep learning neural networks even more widely available by turning […]