Part of BMW Oracle’s upper hand in the most recent America’s Cup may have come from the use of data mining. The boat and all its sensors can generate 2,500 data points 10 times per second. Check out this article from the Oracle Data Mining and Analytics blog to read the rest.
Dec 03
While my personal game system preference is XBOX360, it appears that the Department of Defense prefers Playstation 3. As this Boing Boing article explains, the DOD recently ordered 2,200 PS3s to add capacity to their PS3 based supercomputer.
Nov 26
The FIrst Coffee blog reports that SAS and Netezza have expanded their partnership to allow for SAS model code to run in parallel on Netezza’s TwinFin appliance.
Nov 21
Nov 18
IBM has acquired SPSS and more recently acquired business analytics firm Red Pill. Now they are announcing an internal analytics product called Blue Insight, the largest private cloud computing business analytics environment in the world. Check out the Techcrunch article.
Nov 07
DBMS2 takes a look at these three myths about mapreduce…
* MapReduce is something very new
* MapReduce involves strict adherence to the Map-Reduce programming paradigm
* MapReduce is a single technology
Oct 27
The PTS Blog has a constant stream of great articles on how to better utilize Excel and its charting capabilities. This is one I found quite useful today, how to make clustered, stacked column charts in Excel. Column charts are great, as are stacked column charts. But this shows you how to make stacked column charts with multiple stacked columns per point on the x axis.
Oct 24
Database vendor, Greenplum, is now offering a free download of the single node version of its database. It is available for several different operating systems. Here’s a DBMS2 article with some more information.
In another DBMS2 article, there’s some information about the pace of Greenplum’s recent customer acquisitions which bring it to 100+ as of this quarter.
And finally, here’s some information about Greenplum’s pricing: either subscription or perpetual.
Oct 12
Monash Research lists off how some Cloudera customers are using Hadoop.
Oct 05
As the Open Source software movement continues the strengthen, questions abound about where the opportunities to create commercially viable solutions. Red Hat did it with Linux. Can Cloudera do it with Hadoop? Read this GigaOm article.
