Big Data Articles
ForeScout Technologies Inc., a provider of agentless cybersecurity, is partnering with FireEye, Inc. to give users the intelligence and expertise to detect cyber threats efficiently. By combining ForeScout and FireEye endpoint security capabilities, customers can isolate endpoints that have a high probability of being compromised and initiate defensive responses.
Posted March 01, 2016
Sumo Logic, a cloud-native data analytics service, is extending security monitoring support for several cloud applications along with forging a partnership with ThreatStream.
Posted March 01, 2016
RiskVision, the enterprise risk intelligence company formerly known as Agiliance, is releasing an upgraded version of its solution that aims to improve security against cyber-attacks and other risks.
Posted March 01, 2016
Infobright, the columnar database analytics platform, has unveiled its new Infobright Approximate Query (IAQ) solution for large-scale data environments, allowing users to gain insights faster and efficiently. "This technology is being delivered on the basis of rethinking the business problem and using technology in a very meaningful way to solve problems that would otherwise be unsolvable using a traditional approach," said Don DeLoach, CEO.
Posted February 26, 2016
Throughout the year, AAA National Action Center receives information from its federated local clubs. There is a need to align that information to help AAA further understand relevancy and deliver strong engagement opportunities for its members. After a lengthy process of exploring and evaluating solutions in industry and benchmarking different products, AAA National decided to partner with RedPoint Global.
Posted February 26, 2016
SAP HANA Product Management is very interested in collecting anonymous data about the usage of features, functions and technologies of SAP HANA in customer projects.
Posted February 24, 2016
The HANA Innovation Award entry process is well underway. Please submit your entry to win and get your name recognized by everyone!
Posted February 24, 2016
Join this session to learn how the SAP HANA Platform allows organizations to reduce TCO, simplify core systems, revolutionize internal processes, support critical big data and IoT requirements, and provide the real-time visibility and insight to compete more effectively as a true digital enterprise.
Posted February 24, 2016
SUSE is releasing an updated solution that will make it simple and easy to deploy and manage SAP applications on x86 hardware. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1 will offer high availability features for the public cloud and updated optimization for SAP HANA.
Posted February 24, 2016
Certified Security Solutions (CSS) Inc., a provider of secure digital identity and access solutions, will partner with SAP to provide a platform for the Internet of Things.
Posted February 24, 2016
SAP SE is acquiring the Roambi suite of solutions, further accelerating cloud innovations on the SAP HANA platform and increasing predictive capabilities and mobile business intelligence.
Posted February 24, 2016
SAP SE is introducing new predictive capabilities within its platforms with the release of SAP HANA Cloud Platform predictive services 1.0 and SAP Predictive Analytics 2.5.
Posted February 24, 2016
Cloud-borne data is becoming commonplace—at least at the edges of the enterprise. Organizations are relying, both formally and informally, on cloud-based services for supplemental storage, file sharing, and content management. The challenge now is to bring core enterprise data into the cloud, to render data ranging from financials to sales to performance analytics as services.
Posted February 24, 2016
Revelation will be hosting its user conference from April 18 through April 21, at the Omni Orlando Resort at Championsgate in Orlando, Florida. "We always want to choose a popular vacation destination to do our conferences. Orlando is a great convention city. We even moved our conference schedule up by a day, so that gives everyone an extra day on the weekend to take in the Orlando sights," noted Robert Catalano, director of sales with Revelation Software.
Posted February 24, 2016
The rapid change taking place in software-defined applications and infrastructure was one of the top 10 IT tech trends to watch last year. Certainly, some advancements have been made in this area over the past year. But how far does the industry still need to go? Here are 5 trends that will shape application and infrastructure availability in 2016.
Posted February 24, 2016
There is no denying the fact that cloud-based software and computing services are now accepted as the norm. This change has profound implications on how software applications are architected, delivered, and consumed. This change has ushered in a new generation of technology and an entirely new category in data integration. Today, there are 10 new requirements for an enterprise data integration technology:
Posted February 24, 2016
SnapLogic is unveiling its Winter 2016 release of its flagship platform, further connecting users to flexible Spark capabilities and reliable big data integration solutions.
Posted February 23, 2016
The promise of the data lake is an enduring repository of raw data that can be accessed now and in the future for different purposes. To help companies on their journey to the data lake, Information Builders has unveiled the iWay Hadoop Data Manager, a new solution that provides an interface to generate portable, reusable code for data integration tasks in Hadoop.
Posted February 23, 2016
Emails, meetings, phone calls—it always seems like there are just not enough hours in the day. Struggling to keep your head above water at work is far too common in this Age of Overload.
Posted February 22, 2016
Last week, IBM introduced the z13s as the latest addition to the IBM z Systems family, which offers the same capabilities, innovation and value of the larger z13 in a single-frame system. The new z13s also enables lower cloud costs and faster decision-making, among other features.
Posted February 22, 2016
EMC and VMware have announced a line of integrated and jointly engineered "hyper-converged" infrastructure appliances (HCIAs) for VMware environments.
Posted February 22, 2016
Cohesity, a provider of "hyper-converged" secondary storage, has released version 2.0 of its Cohesity Data Platform, which includes new performance, management, and security features for enterprise. The Cohesity Data Platform helps customers consolidate secondary storage use cases, such as data protection, test and development, and file services. The latest version of the storage platform includes site-to-site replication, cloud archive, and hardware-accelerated, 256-bit encryption.
Posted February 22, 2016
IBM has unveiled a new mainframe, bringing the security of data encryption without slowing down system performance to mid-sized organizations. The new system, the IBM z13s, is enabled and optimized for hybrid cloud environments.
Posted February 22, 2016
Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and data integration solutions, is releasing three editions of its platform, allowing users to gain reporting and analytics insight from a range of users and environments. "The reason we are bringing out these three tiers of product is to make it easier for people to buy the right level of software to accomplish the right analytics and BI missions that they have," said Jake Freivald, vice president of product marketing for Information Builders.
Posted February 22, 2016
It is hard to think of a technology that is more identified with the rise of big data than Hadoop. Since its creation, the framework for distributed processing of massive datasets on commodity hardware has had a transformative effect on the way data is collected, managed, and analyzed - and also grown well beyond its initial scope through a related ecosystem of open source projects. With 2016 recognized as the 10-year anniversary for Hadoop, Big Data Quarterly chose this time to ask technologists, consultants, and researchers to reflect on what has been achieved in the last decade, and what's ahead on the horizon.
Posted February 18, 2016
GridGain Systems, a provider of an in-memory data fabric based on Apache Ignite, has raised $15 million in Series B financing.
Posted February 18, 2016
Every company is undoubtedly concerned about keeping outside attackers away from its sensitive data, but understanding who has access to that data from within the organization can be an equally challenging task. The goal of every attacker is to gain privileged access. An excessively privileged user account can be used as a weapon of destruction in the enterprise, and if a powerful user account is compromised by a malicious attacker, all bets are off.
Posted February 17, 2016
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Posted February 17, 2016
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Posted February 17, 2016
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Posted February 17, 2016
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Posted February 17, 2016
Currently, the IT industry is the midst of a major transition as it moves from the last generation - the internet generation - to the new generation of cloud and big data, said Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle's EVP of Database Server Technologies, who recently talked with DBTA about database products that Oracle is bringing to market to support customers' cloud initiatives. "Oracle has been around a long time. This is not the first big transition we have gone through," said Mendelsohn.
Posted February 17, 2016
Databricks, the company behind Apache Spark, has announced the beta release of Databricks Community Edition, a free version of the cloud-based big data platform. First available as an invite-only beta rollout, accessibility to the Databricks Community Edition by the broader community will be made possible over the coming months, with general availability planned for late Q2 2016.
Posted February 17, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added AppPulse Trace, a new module in its application performance monitoring software (APM) suite, to help developers identify and fix issues at their source, down to the exact line of code and server.
Posted February 17, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has selected RedPoint Data Management platform as the underlying platform for a new HPE Risk Data Aggregation and Reporting (RDAR) integrated solution to support financial institutions' compliance with BDBS 239.
Posted February 16, 2016
Addressing the shift toward business-user-oriented visual interactive data preparation, Trillium Software has launched a new solution that integrates self-service data preparation with data quality capabilities to improve big data analytics.
Posted February 16, 2016
Glassbeam, a machine data analytics company, has introduced two product enhancements for the IoT analytics market. The new capabilities are aimed at automating the transformation of unstructured machine data into business insights and also providing a lighter footprint for Glassbeam at the edge.
Posted February 16, 2016
ClearStory Data has announced an update to its data inference and data harmonization capabilities called Infinite Data Overlap Detection (IDOD). With this R&D innovation, ClearStory's Spark-based analytics solution now detects and infers data patterns and customer-specific data types for all values for data that a user connects to as part of their analysis.
Posted February 12, 2016
The Internet of Things holds great promise for everything from better healthcare to decreased traffic accidents and more efficient manufacturing processes. Michael Morton is currently CTO at Dell Boomi, which he joined in 2013 after a career with IBM where he became an IBM Master Inventor and worked directly with Fortune 100 companies. Recently, Morton talked with BDQ about some of the opportunities and challenges and the role that Boomi plays in the emerging IoT market.
Posted February 11, 2016
Say what you will about Oracle, it certainly can't be accused of failing to move with the times. Typically, Oracle comes late to a technology party but arrives dressed to kill.
Posted February 10, 2016
Storage requirements are growing by leaps and bounds, and more organizations are turning to cloud computing to manage the load. However, cloud isn't necessarily seen as the best approach to data storage bursting—rather, it's mainly being used for backup and for hosting development and test environments, according to a new survey.
Posted February 10, 2016
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Posted February 10, 2016
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Posted February 10, 2016
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Posted February 10, 2016
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Posted February 10, 2016