Your daily digest of “All Things Big Data” gathered, collected and researched by your very own 10Fold Big Data Practice team.
Big Data
An overview of some of the common industry misconceptions.
There were several stories surrounding the big data software company, Platfora, and their latest round of funding ($30M) disclosed on Tuesday. Their total is now $95M.
Google Life Sciences, now known as Verily (owned by The Alphabet Company) joins the growing efforts of using big data to understand healthcare better.
Pure Storage CMO talks about how flash technology is transforming data management and how businesses are missing out on opportunities because of failed data practices.
IT Pro Portal offers their 2016 predictions of what will be happening in the world of big data and CRM.
CEO Trifacta shares his predictions for the big data economy in 2016.
This Big Data Specialist Shortcuts Business Analytics – Fortune
Platfora Big Data Analytics Platform Scores $30M Round – Tech Crunch
Big Data Analytics firm raises additional $30M- CBR
Google Life Science Rebrands as Verily, uses big data to figure out why we get sick – Fast Company
What happens when big data doesn’t work? – Exchange Wire
2016 Predictions: what’s next in the world of big data and CRM? – IT Pro Portal
Interview: Cashing in on the big data goldmine – IT Pro Portal
Hadoop
MapR announced a new product that they hope will help differentiate itself more from the Hadoop pack, called MapR Steams. Streams lets customers share data sources with people or machines that need the information in a subscription- style model.
MapR tries to separate from Hadoop Pack with new Stream Product – Tech Crunch
MapR brings down data silos with converged data platform – CIO
Docker/Container
The topic of security and containers is still a matter of debate. The current question – how do you properly secure containers?
IoT
If Ad agencies want to survive, they need to keep up with the rapidly growing IoT industry.
Forbes reveals that the Tech predictions that have been published are wrong. The current predictions out in the world today forecast impossible results.
A new report is predicting that by 2020 the IoT security market will be worth US $28.9B. As a result, solution providers are shifting towards IoT security solutions to safeguard their connected devices.
A new survey from Infor shows that 10% of manufacturers claim they already have established IoT projects underway. Also, 33% of them are running a pilot planning a project within the next 12 months.
How Ad Agencies must transform in an IoT world – Forbes
A Series of Unfortunate tech Predictions- Artificial intelligence and IoT are inseparable – Forbes
Internet of Things (IoT) security market worth 28.9 Billion USD by 2020- WhaTech
Global manufacturers braced for IoT: But Lack of ownership sees varied progress – First Post
eCommerce
The ecommerce market in India is predicted to grow ten folds in the next 5 years to reach US $100B.
e-commerce market in India may touch $100 billion by 2020: FICCI-KPMG Report – The Economic Times
India digital commerce market to touch $128B by 2017: Study – ET Retail
Personalizaton
5 things that Black Friday has taught retailers so far about personalization.
Boomtrain launched a new application on the Oracle Marketing AppCloud that offers predictive personalization to help businesses form better relationships with customers.
5 things the Holidays can teach you about Personalization – Multichannel merchant
New Application delivers predictive personalization for Oracle users – Beta news