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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

TechCrunch

As with the larger opportunity in enterprise IT, big data players like LiveEO are essentially the second wave of that development: applications built leveraging that infrastructure. Image Credits: LiveEO (opens in a new window) under a CC BY 2.0 opens in a new window) license. “That is what we are doing at scale.”

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Identifying budding big data talent in your company

O'Reilly Media - Data

Big data is often called one of the most important skill sets in the 21st century, and it’s experiencing enormous demand in the job market. Hiring data scientists and other big data professionals is a major challenge for large enterprises, leading many to shift their efforts to training existing staff. Statistics.

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Speedata emerges from stealth with $70M and groundbreaking chip technology to accelerate big data analytics processing

TechCrunch

Data centers are taking on ever-more specialized chips to handle different kinds of workloads, moving away from CPUs and adopting GPUs and other kinds of accelerators to handle more complex and resource-intensive computing demands. Analytics covers about 50% of the expense in a data center, so that is a huge market.

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Gerdeman claims that what helped Everstream stay ahead of the competition was its “big data” approach. The platform combines data based on supply chain interactions with AI and analytics to generate strategic risk scores, assessed at the material, supplier and facility location level.

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EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights

TechCrunch

Farming sustainably and efficiently has gone from a big tractor problem to a big data problem over the last few decades, and startup EarthOptics believes the next frontier of precision agriculture lies deep in the soil. Drive it along the fields and it goes only as deep as it needs to.

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Free Courses at Linux Academy- January 2020

Linux Academy

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Courses Free in January : Implementing Azure DevOps Development Processes. This course helps prepare you for applying for and successfully obtaining a Linux Job.

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