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Datanami Reveals Winners of 2018 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Datanami this week unveiled the winners of the 2018 Reader's Choice Awards, which honors the companies, products, and projects that rose to the top in the big data community this year. Also unveiled were the Editors' Cho Read more…

Searching Elastic’s IPO Filing

Elastic filed paperwork last week to make an initial public offering (IPO) of stock to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ESTC, making it the latest software firm with big data roots to test the Read more…

Lucidworks Puts AI at the Heart of Customer Experience

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are key to delivering high-level experiences that customers now expect, according to Lucidworks CEO Will Hayes, who says it's capable of delivering Google-like experiences as Read more…

Full-Stack Link Analysis for the Masses

There are lots of ways organizations can find meaningful information hidden in huge datasets. In the recent past, small armies of analysts would pore through the data using rudimentary tools. More recently, large corpora Read more…

Elastic Plots Its Own Course to Big Data Success

Elastic ostensibly is best known as the vendor behind Elasticsearch, the scalable Lucene-based search engine that's among the most popular open source projects on the Web. But Elastic has become so much more than that ov Read more…

What Will AI Bring in 2018? Experts Sound Off

Artificial intelligence had a breakout year in 2017. But considering the technological and business momentum, AI is poised to have an even bigger year. Here's a peek at what AI could bring us in 2018 year according to in Read more…

Splunk Competitor Raises Cash, Rolls New Tools

Logz.io, the log analysis startup, has raised additional cash that will be used to apply artificial intelligence techniques to help reduce the amount of stored and analyzed data while improving the quality of business in Read more…

Splunk Upgrades Cloud Monitoring Analytics

As enterprises accelerate the shift to a hybrid private/public cloud model, a growing list of data analytics vendors are stepping up to offer cloud monitoring and other tools designed to ease cloud migrations that are ex Read more…

Can Big Data Tame the Chaos of Virtualized IT?

The "software-defined" revolution is driving private data centers toward AWS-like efficiency. However, the virtualization of hardware, storage, and networking—not to mention agile coding techniques and a rapid-fire "De Read more…

Four Ways to Visualize Big Streaming Data Now

Every day, the data deluge continues to grow. From clickstreams and transaction logs to mobile apps and the IoT, big data threatens to overwhelm customers relying on traditional BI tools to analyze it. That's creating Read more…