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Dell, Intel, Revolution Analytics Build Big Data Innovation Center

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Dell, Intel, and Revolution Analytics have built a Big Data Innovation Center in Singapore. The new center brings together expertise across all three organizations to provide training programs, proof-of-concept capabilities and solution development support on big data and predictive analytic innovations for the Asian market.

Laurence Liew (Managing director, Revolution Analytics Asia-Pacific): The launch of the Big Data Innovation Center is in line with the Singapore government’s focus on big data and predictive analytics.

The Big Data Innovation Center will be housed at the Dell Solution Center (DSC) in Singapore, where training will be done on a big data stack that includes Dell infrastructure using Intel Xeon E5 processor-based servers, Intel 10GbE networking and Intel Solid State Drives with Cache Acceleration Software, the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software and Revolution Analytics Enterprise R predictive analytics software.

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