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Big Iron Warms Up to Big Data

Despite predictions of its demise, the mainframe keeps ticking. And thanks to its longevity, customers are finding the need to integrate mainframes with big data systems is growing. Syncsort, which develops big data solu Read more…

5 Hadoop Trends to Watch in 2017

Hadoop is synonymous with big data, providing both storage and processing resources for large and disparate data sources—not to mention a platform for third-party software vendors to build upon. Where will the distribu Read more…

Surveys Find Cloud Surge, Mixed Data

A steady shift to the cloud and continuing momentum for business intelligence workloads highlight an annual industry survey aimed at gauging the maturity of big data technology. Separately, another big data assessment Read more…

ODPi Tackles Hive with Latest Hadoop Runtime Spec

ODPi today unveiled the second major release of its Runtime Specification that's geared at setting a standard for Hadoop components to ensure greater interoperability among distributions and third-party products. New add Read more…

Reporter’s Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World

The big data ecosystem was on full display at last week's Strata + Hadoop World conference in San Jose. At the ripe old age of 10, Hadoop is still the driving force, but newer frameworks like Spark and Kafka are gaining Read more…

See EBCDIC Run on Hadoop and Spark

Only 20,000 or so of the big beasts still exist in the wild. They're IBM mainframes, and despite the scorn of a legacy label, they continue to run critical processes companies simply don't trust to commodity Intel boxes. Read more…

How a Web Analytics Firm Turbo-Charged Its Hadoop ETL

The Web analytics firm comScore knows a thing or two about managing big data. With tens of billions of data points added to its 400-node Hadoop cluster every day, the company is no stranger to scalability challenges. But Read more…

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Syncsort Acquires William Data Systems

Feb 18, 2015 |

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Feb. 18 — Syncsort, a global leader in Big Data and mainframe software, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of UK-based William Data Systems, the maker of advanced network monitoring and security software products for the IBM z Systems z/OS mainframe platform. Read more…