One look at the IBM technology roadmap reveals that future emphasis, particularly on the software and applications side, will revolve around that catch-all trend that couples various elements from speech, text, and image recognition to create a brain-like system with reasoning and judgment capabilities–not to mention near-instant access to the world’s information. …
By the time Ashish Thusoo left Facebook in 2011, the company had grown to around 4,000 people, many of whom needed to access the roughly 150 petabytes of data—quite a hike from the 15 petabytes his team was trying to wrench from data warehouses in 2008. …
Although Spark has garnered a reputation as being a real-time analytics engine that is married to Hadoop, its life before being glued to that framework offers a different story. …
There is a disconnect between the database engines that underpin both relational databases and the SQL front ends that have been grafted onto Hadoop analytics tools and the underlying hardware on which these databases run. …
Enterprises like choices, they abhor vendor lock in, and they like the options that open source gives. …
No matter how inadvertently, DARPA has helped spawn a number of new companies and mainstream technologies over the years, including recognizable mainstays like the Siri speech recognition engine, which evolved from the artificial intelligence CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes), a five year, $200 million backed effort backed by the agency. …
As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has fulfilled its purpose. …
For those who remember Hadoop in its infancy, there seemed to be an endless parade of arguments, articles, and assertions about what The Next Platform could and could never do, with one side touting it as the most important entrant into the datacenter and the other denying its potential to do anything beyond add some new approaches to storage. …
Few organizations have holistic insight into how the overall Hadoop ecosystem is trending. …
After several years of development, the Google-inspired Apache Drill tool for doing complex, ad hoc queries against various levels of structured data, is ready to move from project to production. …
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