Hacker Hunting: Combatting Cybercrooks with Big Data

When it comes to cybersecurity, the big data explosion represents both a liability and an asset. On the one hand, big collections of data represent a treasure trove that hackers would love to get their dirty little mitts Read more…

Survey: More Data Sources Making it Tougher to Herd

Analytics on an enterprise scale increasingly requires huge and varied data sources, both internal and external, but data quality remains a priority as well as a challenge, according to an industry survey of how companie Read more…

Using Analytic Pipelines to Drain Data Swamps

Hadoop excels as a platform for storing vast amounts of data, but it may or may not be the best place for enterprises to run analytic queries. Now enterprises may want to consider an emerging big data architecture that f Read more…

Pentaho Eyes Spark to Overcome MapReduce Limitations

Pentaho today announced it's supporting Apache Spark with its suite of data analytic tools. While supporting Spark gives Pentaho performance advantages over MapReduce when executing data transformations and running queri Read more…

Pentaho Goes All In with Big Data Blending

The advent of NoSQL and Hadoop data stores is giving organizations powerful tools to collect vast amounts of data. However, driving actionable insights out of that data--and doing so in a reasonable timeframe--is easier said than done. Now, data analytics firm Pentaho thinks it has a solution for that dilemma with its new "blend at the source," near real-time data integration capability for big data stores. Read more…

Eliminating complexity to ensure fastest time to big data value

Pentaho Stirs Open Source Kettle

This week open source business intelligence vendor, Pentaho, pushed the code that powers the latest release of their Kettle offering into an Apache 2.0 license, strengthening ties to Hadoop and related projects under the same license.... Read more…