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Overcoming the Financial Breaking Point: How Businesses Can Overcome Data Cost Anxiety

A 2022 IDC survey involving over 500 senior IT decision-makers highlighted a significant concern in data management, as more than half (52%) considered their data management spending unsustainable. This alarming trend un Read more…

Data Fabric Firm Denodo Raises $336 Million

Data virtualization company Denodo bucked the overall tech investment slowdown today with news of a massive $336 million Series B round by a private equity firm. Denodo Technologies traces its roots back to 1999, when Read more…

Uncovering the Differences Between Logical Data Fabric and Data Mesh

Data fabric and data mesh are two concepts that are regularly covered in data and analytics circles. They both evoke the image of a flexible digital cloth but they are, in fact, very different. As a result, this has led Read more…

Cloud Data Warehouse Migration a Group Effort for UK’s Co-op

It’s not unheard of for customers to spend several years and tens of millions of dollars trying to migrate from one data warehouse to another. It’s also not uncommon for these exercises to fail. But for the Co-op Gro Read more…

Starburst Backs Data Mesh Architecture

The emerging data mesh architecture has the potential to keep AI and analytics projects moving forward even as data storage and processing continues to disperse far and wide. One independent backer of the data mesh conce Read more…

Cloud-Native Knowledge Graph Forges a Data Fabric

Knowledge graph databases continue to go cloud-native with the release of an enterprise version billed as a fabric connecting data on multiple clouds as well as on-premise data stores. The enterprise knowledge graph p Read more…

Virtualization Startup Varada Streamlines Data Ops

Varada, a data virtualization startup targeting big data query acceleration, announced a $12 million funding round this week as it ramps up its “zero data-ops” platform designed to prioritize analytics workloads via Read more…

Alluxio Claims 5X Query Speedup by Optimization Data for Compute

Ever since Alluxio emerged from the AMPLab, its focus as a data orchestration layer has been to grease the wheels for data initiatives by making remotely stored data appear to be stored locally. Today the company took it Read more…

AtScale Tackles Data Engineering with Virtualization Software

It’s often the prep work in analytics that kills you. Before any analysis can be run, engineers must assemble, transform, and standardize the data. In a world where data silos are proliferating in the cloud, on premise Read more…

AtScale Revs ‘Universal Layer’ to Keep Data ‘Big’

Keeping the "big" in big data is the mission of a four-year-old startup launched by Hadoop and business intelligence veterans with the aim of bridging the gap between users, their favorite tools and underlying Hadoop dat Read more…

Hiding Hadoop: How Data Fabrics Mask Complexity and Empower Users

"The early bird gets the worm," the old saying goes. What they don't tell you is sometimes the early bird gets eaten. In the big data world, the rapid evolution of technology is providing maneuvering room for second-move Read more…

Four Steps to Transforming Your Organization with Data Virtualization

No matter what kind of business you’re in--whether it’s an IT solutions provider hoping to get a better understanding of how your software is (or isn’t) being used by end-users, or an advertising agency trying to m Read more…

Intel Investments Seek to Speed Big Data Rollouts

Chipmaker Intel Corp. is expanding its push into big data with an equity investment and a technology partnership with BlueData, the startup that specializes in generating virtualized big data clusters. Along with the Read more…

Hadoop Data Virtualization from Cask Now Open Source

Continuuity, a big data startup that seeks to drive complexity out of Hadoop by virtualizating data and applications, today announced that it's changing its name to Cask and making its software open source. The company a Read more…

Data Virtualization and Big Data Stacks—Three Common Use Cases

There is a critical need among businesses today for a platform that enables them to access any kind of data from anywhere it lives without necessarily moving it to a central location like a data warehouse. In fact, every Read more…

V is for Big Data Virtualization

You've undoubtedly heard the (tired) definition of big data involving the three "Vs" for volume, variety, and velocity. Now there's a growing movement to associate a fourth V-word with big data sets: virtualization. Read more…

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