In this week’s podcast we tackle some big issues, such as whether we want to put in the effort to train the anticipatory home and if the internet of things needs… Read more »
There was a lot of news about Spark’s ascension in the big data ranks this week, as well as some speculation. According to Cloudera’s Mike Olson, his company is widely embracing… Read more »
Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark — a framework… Read more »
Apache Spark might push MapReduce to the back burner faster than some people might like, but it will also boost the Hadoop overall ecosystem. The project’s co-creator Matei Zaharia explains why… Read more »
Matei Zaharia is a big Spark booster. He helped build the project into the force it’s become in big data analytics and is CTO of Databricks. Read more »
Analytics is all the rage, with Hadoop and big data leading the hype. But the new technologies are not yet mature, a market full of startups is yet to shake out,… Read more »
Sprint has been promising a monster of a 4G network for years, but it’s failed to deliver. CEO Dan Hesse says that Sprint still maintains its mobile broadband ambitions, it’s just… Read more »
After facing a year of losses from subscribers fleeing its dying Nextel network, Sprint has started growing again, but that growth is being driven primarily by its MVNOs. Read more »
Sprint’s(s s) new faster Spark network may be out of reach to most Americans, but it is starting to get more support from handset makers. Sprint said it would start selling… Read more »