Quite a few open source announcements this week. One of the most interesting is Apache Bahir, which includes a number of bits spun out from Apache Spark. It’s another indicator of the size and strength of Spark, in case anyone needs a reminder. In other news, Altiscale and H2O.ai concurrently develop time travel: both vendors claim to support Spark 2.0,
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Google’s TPU announcement on May 18 continues to reverberate in the tech press. In Forbes, HPC expert Karl Freund dissects Google’s announcement, suggesting that Google is indulging in a bit of hocus-pocus to promote its managed services. Freund believes that TPUs are actually used for inference and not for model training; in other words, they replace CPUs rather than GPUs. Read
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There are three hard news stories this week: MSFT releases its toolkit for deep learning, MSFT releases its hybrid cloud platform, and the Zeppelin team releases its latest version. So MSFT wins the internet. In Computerworld, Doug Cutting celebrates Hadoop’s tenth birthday. InfoWorld distributes its 2016 Technology of the Year awards. Among the 32 awards: Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Apache Ambari, Apache Kafka, Amazon Aurora, Apache Spark,
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Quite a bit of hard news this week — nine stories, including software releases from Hortonworks and Confluent, a milestone for Apache Kylin, and three funding stories. Plus, a number of items “above the news.” Let’s get to it. Risk Management on Spark The growing number of applications that run on Spark show the platform is maturing. ThinkReactive, a consultancy
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My roundup of the Spark Summit Europe is here. Two important events this week: H2O World starts today and runs through Wednesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. Yotam Levy summarizes here and here. Open Data Science Conference meets November 14-15 at the Marriott Waterfront in SFO Five backgrounders and explainers: At HUG London, Apache’s Ufuk Celebi
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The 2015 Spark Summit Europe met in Amsterdam October 27-29. Here is a roundup of the presentations, organized by subject areas. I’ve omitted a few less interesting presentations, including some advertorials from sponsors. State of Spark — In his keynoter, Matei Zaharia recaps findings from Databricks’ Spark user survey, notes growth in summit attendance, meetup membership and contributor headcount.
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Spark Summit Europe, Oracle Open World and IBM Insights all met last week, as did Cloudera’s Wrangle conference for data scientists. But in the really important news, KC beats the Mets to take the Series. Top news from the Spark Summit is Typesafe’s announcement of Spark support, plus some insight into what’s coming in Spark 1.6. I will publish a
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Dell and Silver Lake Partners announce plans to buy EMC for $67 billion, a transaction that is a big deal in the tech world, and mildly interesting for analytics. Dell acquired StatSoft in 2014,but nothing before or since suggests that Dell knows how to position and sell analytics. StatSoft is lost inside Dell, and will be even more lost inside Dell/EMC.
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This week: IBM pours new wine into old bottles; priorities for the newly formed R Consortium; insight into Spark Streaming and Spark ML pipelines; and the usual snark. The Linux Foundation’s Apache Big Data conference to be held in Budapest in September has already posted slides featuring Spark, Ignite, S2Graph, Kylin and WSO2. Greta Roberts of Talent Analytics wants you
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Top story of the week: MapR reports that it doubled booking and billings year-over-year in the second quarter. Dato holds its Data Science Summit in SFO starting today. See item below on GraphLab. A general shout-out to Hadoop Weekly. If you don’t subscribe already, you should. This isn’t news, but it’s cool. The Linking Open Data cloud diagram: High Performance
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