In this slidecast, Justin Erickson from Cloudera presents a technical overview of Cloudera Impala, an SQL-on-Hadoop solution that enables users to do real-time queries of data stored in Hadoop clusters. To avoid latency, Impala circumvents MapReduce to directly access the data through a specialized distributed query engine that is very similar to those found in […]
Slidecast: Versium Real-Life Data Intelligence Platform
May 10, 2013 by
In this slidecast, Chris Matty from Versium describes the company’s Real-Life Data Intelligence Platform. In consumer marketing, LifeData allows ever-narrower segmentation of customers and therefore much more precisely tailored products or services. Greater real life insights about people and businesses enable optimized communication strategies. Sophisticated analytics can predict behavior and greatly improve decision-making. LifeData can […]
Slidecast: Get 2know – Big Data For The Shared Economy
May 9, 2013 by
In this slidecast, Guy Fraker presents: get2know – Big Data for the Shared Economy. With shared rides, cars, bikes, and even rooms, the issue of trust is huge. The folks at get2know have a developed a “Trust Engine” that uses Big Data to help you decide who you trust to share your stuff. Amazing! As […]
Radio Free HPC Fireside Chat – HPC Embraces Big Data
May 8, 2013 by
In this slidecast, the Radio Free HPC team interviews Fritz Ferstl, CTO of Univa. Topics include Big Data, HPC, and the continuing convergence of both. While what we think of as traditional HPC may differ greatly from Big Data analytics, that seems to be changing. With a long history in high performance computing and customers […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at Lustre with Brent Gorda
May 7, 2013 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses Lustre and LUG 2013 with Brent Gorda. Now part of Intel in their High Performance Data Division, Gorda was CEO of Whamcloud when the company was acquired last summer. Gorda recently wrote a post about the rapid growth of the Lustre community, so we started […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at FPGAs
April 17, 2013 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent buzz surrounding FGPAs. After being sidelined by accelerators, they’re increasingly being used in appliances. Big vendors are talking about FGPAs not only for appliances but for general-purpose systems as performance assists. Are we headed back to the future? The guys discuss the ins and […]
ScaleOut hServer Opens Up Hadoop Analysis for Live Data
April 16, 2013 by
Today ScaleOut announced their new hServer, the first in a series of products from ScaleOut Software that is filling in the need for real-time analytics with Hadoop. While it’s a powerful platform for analyzing large, static data sets, Hadoop has always been limited by its inability to perform analytics on live data,” said Bill Bain, […]
Podcast: 'House of Cards' and the Future World of Big Data
March 11, 2013 by
In this KCRW podcast, host Warren Olney explores the topic of Big Data and how it is being used for competitive advantage. Note: The Big Data discussion begins at about the 7:45 minute mark. By analyzing masses of information collected online, Netflix, Amazon, Google and others can figure out what you want and how […]
Podcast: The Big Data Revolution
March 8, 2013 by
In this podcast from the Leonard Lopate Show, Author Viktor Mayer-Schönberger explores how Big Data will affect the economy, science, and society at large. Big data” refers to our burgeoning ability to crunch vast collections of information, analyze it instantly, and draw sometimes profoundly surprising conclusions from it. Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform […]
NPR Podcast: How Big Data Will Change How We Live
March 7, 2013 by
In this podcast, NPR interviews Kenneth Cukier, author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think. Cukier discusses how Big Data helps Target detect pregnancies, the police track potential criminals — and has even changed the way he talks to his kids. I’m currently reading Cukier’s book and I […]
