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…announcements coming out this month , Cloudera and Revolution Analytics, the enterprise provider of R software, have announced their partnership to integrate Cloudera's Hadoop distribution with Revolution R Enterprise platform thus offering R developers direct access to Hadoop data stores and the possibility to write MapReduce jobs directly in R.

The integration packages, named RevoConnectR for Apache Hadoop , are already available freely on GitHub and …

• Topics: MapReduce, Linux kernel, Cloudera, Enterprise, Hadoop

…warehouse for structured data and SQL access

40PB deep analytics ( Teradata)

20PB Hadoop system to support advanced analytic workload on unstructured data

Original title and link: Big Data Is Going Mainstream: Facebook, Yahoo!, eBay, Quantcast, and Many Others ( NoSQL database ©myNoSQL)

• Topics: Hadoop, Data, Big Data, Facebook, SQL

R is an open source statistical programming language. The easiest way to think about it is the largest commercial competitor in the states is a company called SAS, and while it's not a perfect analogy, one way to think about R is as an open source version of SAS. It's not perfectly correct, but for people who have not heard of R, that's one way to explain it.

It's used to analyze data - any kind of data that exists. That's really why R is becoming so popular

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• Topics: SAS System, Business

BigData Market: IBM Acquires Two Analytics Companies : data analysts would call this consolidation. I'd say it's the beginning of the acquisition spree.

MongoDB Selected as Core Content Management Component of SAP's Platform-As-A-Service : it's not very often to hear about a giant chosing a newcomer's solution as a core component of its services.

For a while I'll keep updating this post to point to the most interesting news this month. …

• Topics: Hadoop, Big Data, Talent manager, IBM, Data

BigData Market: IBM Acquires Two Analytics Companies

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IBM jumps in the "big data" rush as it announced two major acquisitions in two days. On Wednesday, Big Blue announced that it will acquire security intelligence analytics company i2 [...] …

• Topics: IBM

…they move from Microsoft SQL BI to IBM Netezza Twinfin and SAS

how have they evaluated the business value brought by integrating each of these solutions

what is the return on their investment

what alternative solutions have been evaluated in the process and why these particular ones were chosen

Original title and link: Data Analytics at Work ( NoSQL database ©myNoSQL)

• Topics: SAS System, Business intelligence, Microsoft SQL Server, Big Data, Microsoft