Data Lakes and Overcoming the Waste of ‘Data Janitor’ Duties
Data lakes solve a lot of problems in today's big data world. When properly designed, they serve as an efficient means for storing large volumes and varieties of data. A data lake's efficiency comes...
View ArticleBullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype
Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2021, fueled in...
View ArticleIBM Project DataWorks: Joining Multi-Sourced Data for AI-based Analytics
IBM’s aggressive push into the data analytics market continued today with the announcement of Project DataWorks, a Watson initiative that IBM said is the first cloud-based data and analytics platform...
View ArticleThe ‘Insight-Driven Business’: How to Become a Master of the Data Universe
Masters of the Data Universe: Uber, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Google. We know who they are. They hire genius data scientists who wrestle data into submission, building advanced analytics...
View ArticleBSC Presents Plan to Energize Europe’s Big Data Efforts
Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center today presented the big data roadmap commissioned by the EU as part of the RETHINK big project intended to identify technology goals, obstacles and...
View ArticleHow P&G Got Hooked on Analytics: ‘High Value Problems People Were Willing to...
Procter & Gamble, the $76 billion consumer packaged goods giant with sales to 5 billion consumers in 180 countries, has lots of data. Four years ago, as the company found itself waist-deep in a...
View ArticleSIEM Gains as Consumer Security Software Fades
Security information and event management (SIEM) software fueled a robust global security software market in 2015 even as sales of consumer security software declined sharply last year, according to...
View ArticleEnterprises Embrace Machine Learning
Machine learning technology is poised to move from niche data analytics applications to mainstream enterprise big data campaigns over the next two years, a recent vendor survey suggests. SoftServe, a...
View ArticleHPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ends the seven-year...
View ArticleData Lakes and Overcoming the Waste of ‘Data Janitor’ Duties
Data lakes solve a lot of problems in today's big data world. When properly designed, they serve as an efficient means for storing large volumes and varieties of data. A data lake's efficiency comes...
View ArticleBullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype
Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2021, fueled in...
View ArticleIBM Project DataWorks: Joining Multi-Sourced Data for AI-based Analytics
IBM’s aggressive push into the data analytics market continued today with the announcement of Project DataWorks, a Watson initiative that IBM said is the first cloud-based data and analytics platform...
View ArticleThe ‘Insight-Driven Business’: How to Become a Master of the Data Universe
Masters of the Data Universe: Uber, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Google. We know who they are. They hire genius data scientists who wrestle data into submission, building elite analytics superstructures...
View ArticleBSC Presents Plan to Energize Europe’s Big Data Efforts
Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center today presented the big data roadmap commissioned by the EU as part of the RETHINK big project intended to identify technology goals, obstacles and...
View ArticleHow P&G Got Hooked on Analytics: ‘High Value Problems People Were Willing to...
Procter & Gamble, the $76 billion consumer packaged goods giant with sales to 5 billion consumers in 180 countries, has lots of data. Four years ago, as the company found itself waist-deep in a...
View ArticlePure Storage Makes Splash With ‘Big Data Flash’
As data intensive storage workloads proliferate across a range of industries, storage vendors are attempting to upgrade and scale their platforms to speed the analysis of a torrent of unstructured...
View ArticleCloud Data Manager Rubrik is Flush With Cash
Rubrik, the cloud data management startup and cash magnet, said this week it has completed its latest funding round, generating a hefty $180 million and raising its venture capital haul to $292 million...
View ArticleData Dilemma: What to Store, What to Dump?
As storage costs decline on a Moore's Law curve, technology vendors seeking to drive storage capacity and enterprises leveraging that stored data for new applications agree that we have plenty of data...
View ArticleSplunk Beefs Up Cloud Monitoring Tool
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...
View ArticleAs Object Storage Booms, Analytics Issues Emerge
With object-based storage capacity predicted to grow at double-digit annual rates over the next several years, attention is turning to shortcomings such as barriers to data visibility and difficulties...
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