Big Data at The Talmadge Group

What we do with your Big Data opportunities:

  • Enterprise Big Data Audit
  • Internal Enterprise Hadoop Incubator Program
  • Single Problem MapReduce Pilot Test
  • MapReduce Algorithm Optimization
  • Managed Hadoop Cluster

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MapReduce on Amazon EC2 for Government Projects

By host on Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:28 AM
A few months ago Amazon announced that it’s Amazon Web Services platform had passed one of the many government security certifications. Recall that Amazon EC2 is the leading public cloud provider and a part of AWS.
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Big Data News

BloomReach wants to save your site traffic with big data

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:05:16 +0000

BloomReach emerged from stealth mode a message about how it will help ensure companies get their web pages heard above the noise online. Using a potent brew of big data techniques, BloomReach says it can significantly improve traffic by making pages more relevant to consumers.

Teradata taps Hortonworks to improve Hadoop story

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:33:14 +0000

Data-warehouse veteran Teradata has tightened its embrace of the Hadoop big data platform via a partnership with Hortonworks. The goal is to give customers big data environments that integrate everything from the Teradata Database for advanced SQL analytics and the Hortonworks Data Platform Hadoop distribution.

Big data skills bring big dough

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:45:35 +0000

If you are a data scientist, or have other "big data" chops, you can write your own ticket, headhunters say. A search of popular job posting sites shows huge demand for anyone who can demonstrate these skills even in this tough economy.

With a new CEO, will Hortonworks get serious about Hadoop?

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:45:14 +0000

There has been a series of significant, but unannounced management changes at Hortonworks, the Hadoop startup that Yahoo spun off in June. Former COO Rob Bearden is taking over the top executive role, with some thinking his task will be whipping the company into shape.

How Tumblr went from wee to webscale

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:23:10 +0000

Tumblr hits 500 million page views a day, deals with 40,000 requests per second and sends more than a terabyte of data into its Hadoop cluster. Here's how it went from nothing to a startup that needed to serve 15 billion page views a month.