It is projected that within a few years we will have to talk in Brontobytes when we discuss data coming from sensors. The Internet of Things, or Machine to Machine (M2M) communication, connects billions of devices with each other and thereby generates an unfathomable amount of data. In 2020, 40% of all data in the world will be M2M data. This data of course has to be processed, … [Read more...] about The Internet of Things Will Drastically Change Our Future
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Shell Drills Deep With Big Data
Increasingly, Shell uses big data to improve its operations and to increase oil and gas output of their wells. Since a couple of years they have started lowering optical fiber cables within their wells. These cables are supplied with sensors that measure everything within the wells. With this data, Shell can improve analysis of how the wells are doing and how much oil or gas is … [Read more...] about Shell Drills Deep With Big Data
Hadapt enables Analysts to use Unstructured & Structured Data
Company Hadapt Address 614 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA USA Founders Justin Borgman, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski & Daniel Abadi Founded 2010 Funding $ 16,2 million Employees 40 Website www.Hadapt.com Rating 6 bits  Hadap is democratizing big data by empowering business analysts to leverage a Hadoop based platform to conduct advanced analytics. In order to … [Read more...] about Hadapt enables Analysts to use Unstructured & Structured Data
Walmart Is Making Big Data Part Of Its DNA
Walmart started using big data even before the term big data became known in the industry and in 2012 they moved from an experiential 10-node Hadoop cluster to a 250-node Hadoop cluster. At the same time they developed new tools to migrate their existing data on Oracle, Netezza and Greenplum hardware to their own systems. The objective was to consolidate 10 different websites … [Read more...] about Walmart Is Making Big Data Part Of Its DNA
Qubole Runs An On-Demand Hadoop In The Cloud SaaS
Company Qubole Address 1032 Elwell Ct, Suite 109 Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA Founders Ashish Thusoo & Joydeep Sen Sarma Founded June 2012 Funding $ 1 million Employees 4 Website www.Qubole.com Rating 5 bits  Qubole runs an on-demand Hadoop in the clouds service platform. It is a managed version of Hive on the Amazon Web Service platform and it was developed … [Read more...] about Qubole Runs An On-Demand Hadoop In The Cloud SaaS
