Dr. Stephen Perrenod writes that the Higgs Boson particle detected by CERN recently is not Dark Matter. The Higgs boson cannot be the explanation for dark matter for a very simple reason. Dark matter must be stable with a very long lifetime, persisting over the universe’s present age of 14 billion years. It mostly sits […]
Slidecast: ClusterStor 6000 to Debut at ISC'12 with up to 1 TB/sec
June 15, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs-CrtJPl8 In this slidecast, Eric Lomascolo from Xyratex presents an overview of the company’s new ClusterStor 6000 storage system for HPC. The ClusterStor 6000 is a truly next generation storage system developed to address the pervasive need for massively scalable storage systems within the HPC and broader Big Data market,” said Ken Claffey, Xyratex Senior […]
Video: Lucid Imagination Speeds Big Data Search and Analyics
June 4, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhxvfJnRXj4 In this slidecast, Grant Ingersoll from Lucid Imagination describes the company’s new LucidWorks Big Data platform. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * If Dropbox is blocked, download from this Google page.
Slidecast: Top Benefits of Cloud Databases
May 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaDPA-tY1ro In this slidecast, Karen Tegan Padir from EnterpriseDB presents: Top Benefits of Cloud Databases. PostgreSQL is the #1 enterprise-class open source database with a feature set comparable to the major proprietary RDBMS vendors and a customer list that spans every industry. EnterpriseDB’s Postgres Plus solutions let you confidently develop and deploy PostgreSQL-backed applications that […]
Slidecast: Time-to-Answer – A Business-Driven Scorecard for Big Data
May 23, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEwVGZYOvM In this slidecast, Paul Barth from NewVantage Partners presents: Time-to-Answer – A Business-Driven Scorecard for Big Data. According to Barth, the key to business success is data preparation (cleanse, normalize, and integrate the data), not the total amount of data that you have. NewVantage helps clients mitigate the risk of critical business initiatives — […]
Podcast: Spectra to Deliver 380 Petabytes of Tape Storage to Blue Waters
May 22, 2012 by
In this podcast, Michelle Butler from NCSA and Molly Rector from Spectra Logic discuss the massive tape storage system that is being deployed for the 10 Petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer. As announced this week, the Blue Waters system will be one of the world’s largest active file repositories stored on tape media and will scale […]
Slidecast: Creating Benchmarks to Meet Changing Industry Demands
May 2, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6b2PJaGEg0 In this video, Michael Poess from the TPC Transaction Processing Council presents: Creating Benchmarks to Meet Changing Industry Demands. In related news, The Transaction Processing Performance Council today announced a call-for-papers for its fourth annual Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2012). The conference will be collocated with the 38th International Conference […]
Slidecast: Lucid Imagination: Enabling Scalable Search, Discovery, and Analytics
May 1, 2012 by
In this slidecast, Grant Ingersoll, Chief Scientist at Lucid Imagination presents: Enabling Scalable Search, Discovery, and Analytics.
Slidecast: Jaspersoft – How to Best Align Your Big Data Strategy: Start at the End
May 1, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Escpjr5XQ4k In this slidecast, Mike Boyarski from Jaspersoft presents: How to Best Align Your Big Data Strategy: Start at the End. Jaspersoft provides the most cost effective and widely deployed business intelligence software in the world, enabling better decision making through highly interactive, web-based reports, dashboards and analysis. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes […]
Slidecast: Bina – Accelerating Data-Driven Healthcare
April 30, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPF2ZJDrS-c In this slidecast, Narges Bani Asadi from a new Startup called Bina presents: Bina – Accelerating Data-Driven Healthcare. In 2008, a renowned team of researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley came together to solve a critical problem for cancer researchers who were severely constrained by their existing computing capabilities for large-scale data analysis. Through […]
