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An Inside View of Mainstream Enterprise Hadoop Adoption
Few organizations have holistic insight into how the overall Hadoop ecosystem is trending. …
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Drill Mines Diverse Data Sets, Google Style
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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Cores Alone Will Not Drive Haswell Xeon E7 System Sales
Intel still has one more processor to get out the door to complete the “Haswell” generation, with the impending Xeon E5-4600 v3 for low-end, four-socket machines. …
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Deep Learning Pioneer Pushing GPU Neural Network Limits
Back in the late 1980s, while working in the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs, deep leaning pioneer, Yann LeCun, was just starting down the path of implementing brain-inspired machine learning concepts for image recognition and processing—an effort that would eventually lead to some of the first realizations of these technologies in voice recognition for calling systems and handwriting analysis for banks. …
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Google Brings Exascale Bigtable NoSQL To The Masses
A database technology called Bigtable that search engine giant Google launched internally more than a decade ago and has spent the ensuing years perfecting as the underpinning of its search engine and advertising business is going commercial. …
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Intel Puts More Compute Behind Xeon E7 Big Memory
It has been more than a decade since Intel fielded its first credible processors aimed at four-socket machines, and it is no coincidence that makers of RISC and Itanium systems that used to enjoy high revenues and margins on big iron systems have been in decline since that time. …
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SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …
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Microsoft Stacks Azure Up Against AWS
Amazon Web Services may be the 800-pound silverback alpha-ape in the rapidly expanding cloud industry, seeing as how its infrastructure revenue is greater than its four closest competitors combined, but that hasn’t stopped its fast-growing challenger, Microsoft Azure, from beating its own chest and showing off its strengths. …
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Microsoft Expands Azure With Data, Fabric Services
Microsoft is ramping up its Azure public cloud in its effort to gnaw away at the hindquarters of Amazon Web Services, which it trails in the ongoing drive to herd enterprise computing into the cloud. …
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Riding The Inevitable Curve From Analytics To Deep Learning
It is safe to say that there have never been more ways to store massive amounts of data of varying degrees of structure and to dice, slice, and correlate that data to gain some insight from it. …