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Big Data News: Open Source with HUG Ireland with Google & Zalando

Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland’s latest event, Google open sourced its AI “Tensorflow” and Zalando has a new “vision statement” for it’s Open Source “Guild” Last week was a busy…
Uli Bethke November 20, 2015
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Big Data News: Web Summit 2015 A Massive Success

A Sonra Special about Web Summit held in Dublin last week  The Sonra team was working this week learning about so many businesses @websummit in Dublin Ireland. The fusion of…
Uli Bethke November 9, 2015
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Big Data News: Greenplum and Eagle… The latest on Big Data and Open Source

Where the rubber meets the road... Greenplum goes open source and Ebay Eagle is now an Apache incubator project As another week draws to a close, there is a tingling…
Uli Bethke October 30, 2015
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Data discovery and the unfulfilled promises of self-service Business Intelligence

Self-service BI is all about allowing business users or non-technical staff to generate insights from data. It is about to make its breakthrough in the enterprise! Happy days. Unfortunately, this…
Uli Bethke October 12, 2015
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Two Use Cases of Data Discovery Tools

Data discovery tools are a relatively recent phenomenon as can be witnessed by the fact that there is no separate Gartner Magic Quadrant for them. Data discovery tools allow users…
Uli Bethke October 12, 2015
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Big Data News – Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland event and Elasticsearch release… a week in review…

A smashing success at Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland with the October 6th event  @AIB Bank Centre and Elasticsearch released 2.0.0.-rcl for testing HUG Ireland had its October event at…
Uli Bethke October 9, 2015