When President Barack Obama signed the Open Data Executive Order last May, many IT leaders applauded the White House’s decision to release treasure troves of public data as part of an important government initiative for greater transparency. However, what many didn’t bargain for was the state in which they’d find these once-buried data sets. “A […]
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Facebook is reaping the benefits of designing its own energy efficient servers. Today at the Open Compute Summit, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “In the last three years alone, Facebook has saved more than a billion dollars in building out our infrastructure using Open Compute designs.” Facebook started the Open Compute Project back in April […]
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Potentially raising the bar on SQL scalability, Facebook has released as open source a SQL query engine it developed called Presto that was built to work with petabyte-sized data warehouses. Currently, over 1,000 Facebook employees use Presto daily to run 30,000 interactive queries, involving over a petabyte of processing, according to a post authored by […]
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Rapid-I – a German specialist in analytics tools that wants to become the industry standard for how enterprises predict the future – is today announcing its first round of funding, a rebrand to RapidMiner, and a new HQ in Boston to jump with two feet into growing its business in North America. The Series A […]
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Last night, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle Openworld 2013 with a keynote speech that highlighted one of Oracle’s highly touted new technologies:
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