University of Toronto researcher and part-time Google distinguished researcher Geoff Hinton is responsible for many recent advances in deep learning, and many advances in neural network research over the past few… Read more »
Amazon says it can wring the complexity of scheduling and rolling back containers with its new EC2 Container Service, which will take on industry-backed Kubernetes. Read more »
IBM’s Watson group has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Pathway Genomics to help the company deliver an app that gives personalized advice to users based on their genetic information, as… Read more »
The journey to cloud computing, and to its adoption in the enterprise, has been a rather manic-depressive one. When the first public cloud platforms became available, many thought the model would… Read more »
With Cubert hooked into LinkedIn’s infrastructure, the company no longer has to worry about Hadoop scripts that waste too many resources in a cluster or take hours to do what they’re… Read more »
Hortonworks’ IPO filing on Monday shows that Hadoop is still a resource- and risk-intensive business, but also suggests it’s one that public market investors will be willing to back. It might… Read more »
Hortonworks, the company spun out of Yahoo in 2011 to focus on building commercial Hadoop technology, has filed for its initial public offering. The company claims more than $33 million in… Read more »
Enterprises are shifting big-data analytics projects to the cloud but compatibility, security, and performance concerns remain key blockers to adoption. Read more »