This New Open Source Project Is 100X Faster than Spark SQL In Petabyte-Scale Production

Alluxio is getting attention from Baidu and other data giants because of its in-memory speed at profound scale.

Netflix CEO Explains Why A “Gut” Feeling Is Still Better Than Big Data

Reed Hastings on why algorithms don’t do it all.

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What The KGB Can Teach You About Data-Driven Marketing

Guest author Leo Sadovy is the director of global marketing at SAS. During the Cold War, the KGB was so good at identifying undercover CIA agents that officials worried that there was a highly placed mole in the agency. But as Jonathan Haslam, a professor at Princeton University, wrote earlier this fall, that wasn’t the case at all. … Read more »

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Why Spark And Hadoop Are Both Here To Stay

Skip the hyperbole and the holy wars and get down to facts.

6 Ways Analytics And The Internet Of Things Will Transform Business

Guest author Scott Amyx is founder and CEO of Amyx+McKinsey, a wearables and IoT (Internet of Things) strategy and execution agency. The tech industry is no stranger to change, but the data derived from the IoT is taking disruption to a new level—sforzando. At IBM’s Insight conference last month, Bob Picciano, senior vice president of… Read more »

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How Machine Learning And Big Data Can Boost Business

Bring more efficiency and innovation to your company.

Too Much Data? No Such Thing, New Relic Says

Track it all, let software sort it out.

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Yelp Open Sources Its PaaS To Liberate You From Docker

Yelp wants to keep you from getting locked into someone else’s cloud.