We have a bumper crop of explainers, plus lots of news on this snowy New England Monday: IBM announces new cloud services Gartner shakes up the BI MQ Microsoft Ventures adds ten machine learning startups to incubator Redis Labs releases benchmark of Spark with Redis SAS ekes out 2% revenue growth in 2015 MSFT Azure IoT goes GA MapR patents its
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Fourteen stories this week, beginning with an announcement from IBM. This week, IBM celebrates 14 straight quarters of declining revenue at its IBM Insight conference, appropriately enough at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas, where the restaurants are overhyped and overpriced. Meanwhile, the first Spark Summit Europe meets in Amsterdam, in the far more interesting setting of the Beurs van Berlage. There
Read moreUpdated and bumped July 10, 2014. For a powerpoint version on Slideshare, go here. Introduction Apache Spark is an open source distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Hadoop. Originally developed as a research project at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab, the project achieved incubator status in Apache in June 2013 and top-level status in February 2014. According to one analyst, Apache Spark is among the five
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