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IBM Pours Researchers And Resources Into Apache Spark Project

Pouring liquid gold. IBM today pledged it would devote 3500 researchers to the open source big data project, Apache Spark. It also announced that it was open sourcing its own IBM SystemML machine learning technology in a move designed to help push it to the forefront of big data and machine learning.
These two technologies are part of the IBM transformation strategy that includes cloud, big data, analytics and… Read More

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Databricks Snags $33M In Series B And Debuts Cloud Platform For Processing Big Data

Sparks flying from a sparkler. Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks hopes to simplify the entire matter by moving it… Read More

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