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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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Progress for big data in Kubernetes

O'Reilly Media - Data

First off, if your data is on a specialized storage appliance of some kind that lives in your data center, you have a boat anchor that is going to make it hard to move into the cloud. The implications for big data. Big data systems have always stressed storage systems. Future outlook.

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NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence

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For more on this big data initiative, see the below from a 22 July press release : NIH commits $24 million annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence. In response, NIH launched the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative in December. Analysis Big Data. Analysis Big Data'

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Egypt launched the first government data center

CIO

The Data and Cloud Computing Center is the first center for analyzing and processing big data and artificial intelligence in Egypt and North Africa, saving time, effort and money, thus enhancing new investment opportunities.

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Dynamic Data Centers

CTOvision

Big Data and high performance computing (HPC) are on a collision course – from machine learning to business intelligence, the combined power of clustered servers, advanced networking and massive datasets are merging, and a new Big Data reality is on the rise. Marty Meehan. pdf – Downloaded 4 times – 584 KB.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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Big Data Project Management: Data Must Flow!

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I'm currently researching big data project management in order to better understand what makes big data projects different from other tech related projects. So far I've interviewed more than a dozen government, private sector, and academic professionals, all of them experienced in managing data intensive projects.