Beginning Wednesday, Join Us at the Pivotal Blog
The Pivotal era kicks off this Wednesday April 24th, with Pivotal: A New Platform for a New Era, a live streaming event unveiling this exciting new company. Bringing together selected technology, people and programs from EMC and VMware, Pivotal will unite Greenplum’s products and services with those from Cloud Foundry, Spring, GemFire and other products from the VMware vFabric Suite, Cetas, and Pivotal Labs.
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Effective Data Visualization Techniques, from Business to Social Advocacy
No matter how much data you amass, or how ingenious your models may be, your efforts are only as effective as how you communicate the insights revealed. Data visualization is not a new art, but one which has grown significantly more important in recent years, as organizations must respond to an increasing amount of data faster than ever.
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Pivotal: All Systems Go
Pivotal, the new company uniting EMC Greenplum’s decade of big data R & D, agile development trailblazers Pivotal Labs, and VMWare’s cloud services and app framework acumen, is ready to launch. In a letter to employees sent Monday, April 1st, CEO Paul Maritz announced Pivotal as “a new and exciting company with great promise,” and outlined the Pivotal vision.
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eBay’s Beth Axelrod: Predictive Analytics is Transforming Human Resources
The challenges of hiring skilled data scientists is well-documented, but what of Big Data’s impact on talent recruitment within other fields? According to Beth Axelrod, eBay’s Senior Vice President of Human Resources and the co-author of the new book The War for Talent, Human Resources is the latest department to be significantly disrupted within the data-driven enterprise.
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Paul Maritz Calls for a “Consumer-Grade Enterprise” Platform
Over the past decade, consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have invested heavily in user data — storing it, analyzing it, and using the insights revealed to rapidly iterate on products. These companies recognized early that user data is a treasure trove, and devoted significant in-house resources to reap its value.
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The History of Hadoop: From Small Starts to Big Data
Named after a toy elephant belonging to developer Doug Cutting’s son, over the past decade Hadoop has proven to be the little platform that could. From its humble beginnings as an open source search engine project created by Cutting and Mike Cafarella, Hadoop has evolved into a robust platform for Big Data storage and analysis.
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Cloud Foundry Open for Business and Commits
Cloud Foundry, the Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution offered by EMC’s newly-minted Pivotal Initiative, opened itself this week to clients and the open source community. The Pivotal Initiative will be selling Cloud Foundry as a cloud software service, while opening the project’s code for collaboration and commits through Github.
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As Data Becomes a Service, Will Data Scientists Disappear?
Even while CIOs tighten belts and demand clear-cut results from technology investments, the value of data-driven insight is evident. Gartner projects investment in Business Intelligence and Analytics software platforms will continue to increase, driven in part by the desire to perform predictive analytics in-house.
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10 Reasons Why Hadoop Will Dominate in 2013
The Apache Hadoop platform has been ascendant in recent years, thanks to its flexibility, rich developer ecosystem, and ability to suit the analytics needs of developers, web startups and enterprises. Hadoop is on track to become prevalent in 2013, with Gartner predicting it will be embedded in two thirds of Big Data analytics products by 2015.
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