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Big Data

Big Data ‘Center of Gravity’ Shifting to Cloud

As practitioners of big data analytics seek to bring computing power closer to the data rather than the other way around, the cloud is emerging as the preferred platform ...Full Article

Airstone Clusters Drive Down Latency With Custom Network

Some hardware and software engineers at a startup called Airstone Labs, who have built scale-out systems for Google, among other places, want to build a better cluster. And as ...Full Article

Cray on Flash Tiered Storage for Supercomputing and Big Data
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There’s been a lot of recent talk about SSDs and flash storage, and rightly so. The move to flash storage is happening now—but a major shift, an inflection point, ...Full Article

Atos Buys Bull To Commercialize HPC, Build Out Cloud

Atos, the European IT services giant based in France that is the amalgam of a dozen companies that have been brought together over the past several decades, is getting ...Full Article

Lustre File System Moving From Lab To Big Data Apps

Proponents of the Lustre file system maintain it is poised to make the jump from HPC installations into the enterprise, driven by the surging amount of data that companies ...Full Article

Using Flash To Scale In As Well As Up And Out

When people talk about scale in the IT industry these days, more times than not they mean one of two things. The first is called scale up, and this ...Full Article

Boston Children’s Combats Strep Throat from Home with Big Data

A new health assessment that combines big data with patient symptoms, called a “home score,” may keep patients suffering from strep throat from having to take a trip to ...Full Article

Facebook Adds Retro Relational to Massive Hadoop Analytics

If there is one lesson that all extreme scale system designs teach us over and over again, it is that you have to tailor the system for the specific ...Full Article

BP Poll Finds Data Challenge Waiting in the Digital Oilfield

According to a poll taken today at the SPE Intelligent Energy International 2013 (IE2013) exhibition in Dubai, oil and gas professionals have unanimously identified the management and analysis of ...Full Article

SAP Chairman Sets Sights on Healthcare

To help his company run more efficiently, SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner has shifted his business to helping humans to run more efficiently as well. Plattner, who turns ...Full Article
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