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MapR Makes Platform More Cloud-Like

MapR Technologies today unveiled a major enhancement to its big data cluster that introduces features commonly found on public cloud platforms, including support for an S3-compatible API, erasure coding, and a data-tieri Read more…

Power Laws and the Never-Ending Big Data Boom

We're about a decade into the big data boom, which may seem like a lifetime for those who have worked through it. But in many ways, we're just getting started with what big data and AI technology is capable of giving us, Read more…

Hortonworks Looks to Expand Hybrid Cloud Footprints

Organizations these days demand to run their big data workloads wherever and whenever they want – in their own private data centers, in public clouds, on the edge, and every which way in between. Hortonworks acknowledg Read more…

Analytics Power Discoveries in ICIJ’s West Africa Leaks

Graph analytic technologies and techniques played a major role in West Africa Leaks, the latest International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) project to unearth illegal or unethical activities or investmen Read more…

IBM Bolsters Storage with AI, De-Dupe, and Cloud DR

Organizations today are struggling to keep up with the massive amount of data they're generating and collecting, and in some cases they're close to maxing out their existing storage. In a way it's good news for storage p Read more…

Emerging Advanced Scale Tech Trends Focus of Annual Tabor Conference

At Tabor Communications’ annual Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) held this week in Austin, the focus was on enterprise adoption of HPC-class technologies and high performance data analytics (HPDA). It’s a confab that bri Read more…

Self-Driving Databases are Coming: What Next for DBAs?

Autonomous is quickly becoming one of the most talked about words in tech. A concept popularized by the automotive industry is quickly gaining traction in other areas, including datacenters. We're beginning to see the Read more…

How Netflix Optimized Flink for Massive Scale on AWS

When it comes to streaming data, it's tough to find a company operating on a more massive scale than Netflix, which streams more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies --  per day. Netflix captures billions of pi Read more…

The New Economics of the Separation of Compute and Storage

No one can predict the future analytical needs of their business. The right storage needs today might not be the right storage needs next year, or even next week. An organization’s workload requirements might grow five Read more…

Built to Last: Laying a Framework for IoT with Enterprise Architecture

IoT is massive -- both in opportunity for business and volume of data created. Over 90% of the data in the world has been created in the past two years, and the current output of data is roughly 2.5 quintillion bytes a d Read more…

MapD Rolls GPU Cloud

MapD Technologies released a new version of its mainstay database and visualization platform about a year ago with a heavy emphasis on GPU acceleration. It is now migrating its analytics platform to the cloud with what i Read more…

Room to Grow on the Big Data Maturity Curve

If accurate self-reflection is the mark of a mature man, then we are collectively still boys when it comes to big data, according to an AtScale report unveiled today that detected a significant discrepancy between how we Read more…

Building Presto Business No Magic Trick for Starburst

When it comes to next-gen SQL query engines, there's no shortage of players jockeying for a starting role on big Hadoop clusters and in the cloud. While the Hives, Impalas, Drills, and Spark SQLs of the world have loyal Read more…

IBM Launches New Cloud for Data Science and Engineering

IBM today unveiled a new cloud offering called Cloud Private Data that's designed to help organizations utilize data science and machine learning techniques to generate insight from data, and then engineer AI products th Read more…

Inside MapR’s Support for Kubernetes

MapR today announced that customers can now run and deploy applications on MapR's big data cluster utilizing the Kubernetes containerization technology. In addition to providing data statefulness, it also gives MapR cust Read more…

Cloud Looms As Answer to All Things Analytic

Think this whole cloud thing is just a passing fad? That view may have been permissible 10 years ago. But as organizations try to put their IT goals in clearer focus for 2018, it's becoming increasingly evident that the Read more…

Wrestling Data Chaos in Object Storage

It has become all so apparent that object storage is the cornerstone of the cloud and the resting place for just about any aspect of business, industry, and government data. While the simplicity of the object approach le Read more…

Alteryx Takes Action Following Big Data Breach

Following a report that it left data about more than 100 million households exposed on AWS, Alteryx's CEO declared that the company has taken steps to ensure that it doesn't happen again. On December 20, the security Read more…

10 Key Big Data Trends That Drove 2017

2017 has come and (almost) gone. It was a memorable year, to be sure, with plenty of drama and unexpected happenings in terms of the technology, the players, and the application of big data and data science. As we gear u Read more…

AWS Unleashes a Torrent of New Data Services

If you like your technology enhancements on the fast and furious side, you undoubtedly liked what you saw during AWS CEO Andy Jassy's keynote address this morning, when he unveiled nearly a couple dozen new or improved s Read more…

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