Pivotal, A NEW PLATFORM FOR A NEW ERA
Just as consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have done, enterprise companies increasingly need to store and analyze massive amounts of data cost-effectively, ingest huge numbers of events in real time, reason over the data, and react rapidly. To meet this need, Pivotal will host a live streaming event on April 24th with a special announcement and an unveiling of its plans to build a platform that makes the consumer grade enterprise a reality.
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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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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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Big Data Analytics for Network Security Monitoring
After years of enterprise security breaches, one would think companies have learned much and are improving their security posture. In reality, the bad guys continue to have the upper hand in this game of cat-and-mouse. The intruders are creative and nimble in their efforts to penetrate network infrastructures, discovering new vulnerabilities that must be patched on a regular basis.
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Demonstrating the High-Performance Future of Hadoop at Strata
The ten- and hundred-fold gains in productivity, speed, and accessibility that Pivotal HD brings to Hadoop took center stage at an afternoon breakout session at the Strata Conference on Wednesday, February 27th. Josh Klahr, Greenplum’s Vice President of Product Management, and Gavin Sherry, Senior Director of Engineering offered a deep dive into the High-Performance Future of the platform.
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Scott Yara’s Strata Keynote: Data and Collaboration In “An Extraordinary Time”
Greenplum co-founder, Scott Yara struck an inspirational tone during his keynote at the Strata Conference #strataconf on Wednesday, February 27th in Santa Clara. Yara cast a wide net, paying tribute to the practitioners who have pushed the data community forward and inspired Greenplum’s vision, emphasizing collaboration and the wide swath of sectors and issues that data science can deliver insight on.
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How Hadoop Can Disrupt the Database Industry
Hardly any book has attracted more attention among software companies than Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and some companies even welcome it as a sign of “innovative spirit” when engineers slap a product manager with it over the head, figuratively that is, whenever he or she presents an idea to increase business values along the lines of the existing corporate strategy.
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