Tag: big data
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Hadoop Summit: Talking to the CEO of Hortonworks
Yesterday I attended the Hadoop Summit down in Santa Clara. The one-day event featured a morning of general sessions followed by three tracks of break outs in the afternoon. The event also featured displays by several dozen vendors. The big topic of the day was Hortonworks, a Yahoo! spin-out that had been announced the day…
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Dell + Aster data analytics solution: Live and in use
Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced the general availability of our Dell cloud solutions. One of the solutions we debuted was the Dell Cloud Solution for Data Analytics, a combination of our PowerEdge C servers with Aster Data’s nCluster, a massively parallel processing database with an integrated analytics engine. Earlier this…
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Talking to Aster Data’s brand new CEO
I flew to Chicago today to support our partner Aster Data’s Big Data Insight summit. This Chicago event is a part of series of roadshows that Aster is doing for customers in cities in the US and Europe. Today’s event was held in the trendy Hotel Sax and featured talks from analysts as well as…
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Cloud Camp Austin 2010
Last Thursday over a 100 cloud enthusiasts gathered for Cloud Camp Austin. The event was held at Pervasive Software‘s headquarters and kicked off after 5PM with munchies and beer. The event brought in folks all around Austin as well as visitors from exotic areas like upstate New York (the group had been in town for…