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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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This is particularly true for code that accesses physical resources such as the low-level code that implements the data platform itself, but you probably will need something like this for once-per-host client-side driver mechanisms as well. The implications for big data. Future outlook.

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

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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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It's time to establish big data standards

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The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The main standard with some applicability to big data is ANSI SQL.

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How Big Data Investments Could Affect A Variety Of Industries

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Read Sylvia Jablonski explain how big data companies like Palantir Technologies, Inc. Big […].

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UK’s Marshmallow raises $85M on a $1.25B valuation for its more inclusive, big-data take on car insurance

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Meanwhile, Marshmallow’s novel, big-data approach and successful traction in the market speak for themselves. “They are big companies and stuck in their ways. Regardless of whether Marshmallow is the first or one of the first, given the dearth of diversity in the U.K.

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Sync Computing rakes in $15.5M to automatically optimize cloud resources

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While many cloud cost solutions either provide recommendations for high-level optimization or support workflows that tune workloads, Sync goes deeper, Chou and Bramhavar say , with app-specific details and suggestions based on algorithms designed to “order” the appropriate resources.

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