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

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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. “We were grossly oversubscribed for this round,” he said.

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Progress for big data in Kubernetes

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One subtle point is that having a shared client-side daemon allows for more efficient access to network and storage services without necessarily imposing an extra copy of the data between the application and the disk or network. The implications for big data. Big data systems have always stressed storage systems.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Big Data’s cloud backlash, CVC pitch tips, de-risking hardware startups

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CVCs remained consistent investors in 2022 10 tips for de-risking hardware products Image Credits: Frisco / Getty Images With the right team, a software startup might only need weeks to go from the idea stage to billing their first customers. You need to make sure that the data you’re tracking is coming from the right types of people.”

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

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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. The imaging hardware can be mounted on ordinary tractors or trucks, and pulls in readings every few feet.

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

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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. “We enable more non-experts to use satellite data. . Image Credits: LiveEO (opens in a new window) under a CC BY 2.0

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

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Its a common skill for cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, solutions architects, data engineers, cybersecurity analysts, software developers, network administrators, and many more IT roles. Oracle Oracle offers a wide range of enterprise software, hardware, and tools designed to support enterprise IT, with a focus on database management.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 CTOvision publisher and Cognitio Corp co-founder Bob Gourley hosted an event for federal big data professionals. The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. By Katie Kennedy. Learn More about Cloudera here.

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