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Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?
The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the...
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The agony, ecstasy, and miserable efficiency of big data at Amazon
The tech world will be buzzing this week about The New York Times’s Pulitzer entry article denouncing Amazon as a place to work. Titled “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace,” the...
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First the cloud now analytics: Amazon takes on Big Data
As AWS and Aliyun make machine learning capabilities available, can analytics companies survive? Amazon Web Services is offering another capability to its European users with its Machine Learning...
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AWS QuickSight will disrupt business intelligence, analytics markets
Get ready for AWS business intelligence (BI) – it’s real and it packs a punch. Today’s BI market is like a perpetual motion machine — an unstoppable engine that never seems to run out of steam....
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Amazon Web Services gets serious about big data analytics with bevy of new...
The tech titan’s cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, is beefing up its suite of streaming data and analytics services. The tech titan’s cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, is beefing up its suite of streaming...
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Amazon wants to eat enterprise IT alive
The full scope of Amazon’s ambitions emerged at re:Invent last week: AWS thinks its cloud will be the enterprise platform of the future Of the ton of stuff announced at AWS re:Invent, my favorite item...
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Amazon QuickSite — BI reinvented or SPICEy hot air?
With its business intelligence tool Quicksite, AWS plans to further trouble companies like Oracle and IBM but there is a risk of collateral damage The opening keynote at Amazon Web Service Re:Invent...
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The cloud wars explained: Why nobody can catch up with Amazon
The market for cloud computing continues to defy all expectations. Even as the startup craze starts to cool in Silicon Valley, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all reported bang-up earnings last quarter,...
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Q&A: Bringing machine learning to the masses
Big businesses are increasingly recognizing the potential of data science and machine learning. Until recently, however, it hasn’t been readily available to smaller organizations and individuals. But...
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20 Big Data Companies Leading the Way
Big Data deployments have become almost commonplace in large enterprises. The business value of quickly corralling endless streams of heterogeneous data, storing the information and analyzing it is...
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Cloud Data Services Sprawl … it’s Complicated
Legacy data management didn’t offer the scalability one finds in Big Data or NoSQL, but life was simple. You’d buy storage from your vendor of choice, add a database on top and use it for all your...
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5 Amazing Things Big Data Helps Us To Predict Now — Plus What’s On The Horizon
Big data is predicting things about your life almost every minute of your day — whether you’re aware of it or not. Amazon is predicting what else you might like to buy every time you shop. Netflix is...
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AWS sets its sights on the BI market as it makes Amazon QuickSight generally...
The cloud computing giant launches a tool aimed at letting non-technical, business users rapidly extract useful information from corporate data. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its data analysis...
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Snowflake Aims to Remake the Data Warehousing Market
Snowflake Computing is banking that the future of data warehousing is in the cloud. The startup company has built a SQL database from scratch that is optimized for the cloud and big data. Its unique...
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Announcing support for Amazon Redshift connectivity in the Power BI service
A few months ago we released a Preview of the Amazon Redshift connector in Power BI Desktop. This new connector allows users to easily build reports based on their Redshift data, either by importing...
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Review: Amazon QuickSight covers the BI basics
When I reviewed self-service exploratory business intelligence (BI) products in 2015, I covered the strengths and weaknesses of Tableau 9.0, Qlik Sense 2.0, and Microsoft Power BI. As I pointed out at...
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Amazon Using AI, Big Data To Accelerate Profits
Amazon wants you to take wardrobe advice from a connected gadget. It brought personal digital assistants into our kitchens with Echo, a connected speaker. Now it can see, so Amazon wants to come into...
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GE unveils big data tools for industry amid software shift
(Bloomberg) — General Electric Co. is unveiling software for boosting its machines’ productivity and streamlining repairs, alongside deals with Danish shipping line Maersk Corp. and French energy...
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With Whole Foods Purchase, Amazon Just Bought a Playground for Big Data
Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods isn’t about automating checkout — it’s about bringing Amazon’s online analytics to the offline world. Last week, Amazon announced its intended fourth quarter...
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Sony joins Google, Facebook and Amazon in chase for AI developers
(Bloomberg) — Sony Corp. opened up access to its deep-learning software tools, joining Google, Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. in a push to attract artificial-intelligence developers. The Japanese...
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