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Big Data

The well-known three Vs of Big Data - Volume, Variety, and Velocity – are increasingly placing pressure on organizations that need to manage this data as well as extract value from this data deluge for Predictive Analytics and Decision-Making. Big Data technologies, services, and tools such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive and NoSQL/NewSQL databases and Data Integration techniques, In-Memory approaches, and Cloud technologies have emerged to help meet the challenges posed by the flood of Web, Social Media, Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) data flowing into organizations.



Big Data Articles

SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has announced significant updates to the SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA). Version 10.2 supports MySQL as a back-end database in addition to SQL Server and Oracle Database, includes visualization and analysis tools to help DBAs optimize for and resolve blocking, locking, and deadlock issues, and adds support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016.

Posted August 02, 2016

NTT Security Corporation is bringing together its advanced analytics technologies to launch a specialized security company. NTT Security delivers Managed Security Services (MSS) and specialized security professional services that support the Full Security Life Cycle. These services will be taken to market globally and client engagement will be managed by NTT operating companies Dimension Data, NTT Communications and NTT Data.

Posted August 01, 2016

Reltio, an applications and data management PaaS company, is receiving $22 million in Series B funding, with the investement being used to expand and accelerate the company's hiring practices and further innovation.

Posted August 01, 2016

Talend S.A., a provider of big data and cloud integration solutions, successfully launched its IPO. The offering included 5,250,000 American Depositary Shares (ADSs), each representing one of its ordinary shares, at a price to the public of $18 per ADS, which was higher than anticipated - and then rose sharply.

Posted July 29, 2016

Datavail, a provider of data and DBA services, offering 24×7 managed database services, database design, architecture, and staffing, has acquired Art of BI, an Oracle analytics consulting company focused on OBIEE and Hyperion.

Posted July 29, 2016

Oracle announced today that it is acquiring NetSuite in a transaction valued at approximately $9.3 billion. The transaction is expected to close in 2016. In a statement, Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, said that NetSuite will benefit from Oracle's global scale and reach to accelerate the availability of its cloud solutions.

Posted July 28, 2016

Riverbed Technology, which provides solutions for application performance, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aternity, a provider of end user experience and application performance monitoring solutions that monitors more than 1.7 million mobile, virtual and desktop workforce endpoints.

Posted July 28, 2016

Helping to address complex analysis problems, IBM has announced the general availability of IBM Graph, a Bluemix service that allows users to set up graph databases in the cloud. Previously offered in beta earlier this year, the availability was made public in an IBM developerWorks blog by Adrian Warman, documentation lead for IBM UK Application Platform Services, on behalf of the IBM graph team.

Posted July 28, 2016

Kore Technologies has unveiled the latest release of its signature platform, Kourier Integrator, improving several key areas of the hailed solution. A year and a half in the making, Kourier Integrator Release 4.3 makes it easier to create, deploy, and use RESTful Web Services for real-time enterprise application integration.

Posted July 27, 2016

Entrinsik is hosting a webinar that will explore how SugarCRM can be used as a data discovery platform.

Posted July 27, 2016

Rocket Software is making improvements to its mvBase platform, delivering new enhancements customers are looking for. mvBase 3.3 adds remote files, Windows 10 64-bit support, overflow management, and patch updates.

Posted July 27, 2016

MultiValue technologies aren't going anywhere. In fact, Steve O'Neal, a principal solutions architect at Rocket Software, believes MV will play an important role as big data evolves in the future.

Posted July 27, 2016

There's a new buzzword on the loose, the data lake. At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they may, in certain situations, produce roughly equivalent output. But that's about where their similarities end.

Posted July 27, 2016

FogHorn Systems, a developer of "edge intelligence" software for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, has secured $12 million in Series A funding to further innovate its offerings. The funding round was led by March Capital and GE Ventures, with additional funds provided by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, and Darling Ventures.

Posted July 27, 2016

TIBCO Software Inc. is unveiling a new platform designed for companies investing in digital business strategies. The platform, called TIBCO Mashery Enterprise API, covers the entire API lifecycle, allowing users to create, integrate, and manage APIs with a single offering.

Posted July 27, 2016

Paxata is partnering with PwC US to deliver a new self-service data preparation solution to PwC's existing governance, risk, and compliance tools. This alliance allows Paxata to work with PwC to develop customized data preparation solutions that will help clients structure various types of data in an intuitive and visual way.

Posted July 27, 2016

Accellion, Inc., a provider of private cloud solutions for secure file sharing and collaboration, has added new security features in the kiteworks content platform to help enterprises keep their critical enterprise data secure while extending compliance with rigorous industry requirements.

Posted July 27, 2016

SAP Idea Place for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise is now available. You can use this to share your idea for feature enhancements and vote on ideas others have shared.

Posted July 27, 2016

Join SAP and EMC for a special Webcast to learn how our teams collaborated to achieve up to a 420% performance improvement in query response times and the number of database transactions - without making any application changes!

Posted July 27, 2016

According to a report from SAP, SAP Jam has reached a new milestone, growing from 20 million subscribers in mid-2015 to 34 million subscribers currently -- an increase of 70 percent in less than 12 months. SAP Jam delivers collaboration in the workplace connecting customers, partners, and colleagues with the experts, business insight, process, and content to transform how they engage and work every day.

Posted July 27, 2016

SAP SE is unveiling a new platform that will help organizations enrich business applications with geographic data from geographic information systems. "We have an entire portfolio of spatial solutions to our customers across a variety of industries," said said Marie Goodell, head of marketing of the SAP HANA Platform at SAP.

Posted July 27, 2016

BackOffice Associates is acquiring data archiving intellectual property focused on SAP software from Proceed Engineering Solutions, strengthening its commitment to SAP. This acquisition complements BackOffice's dspArchive application, giving the platform the ability to analyze, simulate, and execute complex and complete archiving activities for the SAP ERP application and SAP S/4HANA.

Posted July 27, 2016

By the mid-2000s, a huge number of web apps were built upon the so-called LAMP stack. LAMP applications utilize the Linux operating system, Apache web server and MySQL database server, and implement application logic in PHP or another language starting with the letter "P," such as Python or Perl. But the LAMP stack is now essentially obsolete technology, and the MEAN stack provides a lot of productivity advantages, especially for modern highly-interactive web sites. But the MEAN stack is not without compromise. Here's why.

Posted July 27, 2016

TriCore Solutions, an application management solution provider and an SAP-certified cloud hosting and SAP HANA managed service provider, is continuing its commitment to SAP by acquiring an SAP certified channel partner. By acquiring G3G, Inc., TriCore's customers will now have end-to-end SAP solution at their fingertips and the transaction with G3G, Inc. will more than double the size of TriCore's SAP practice.

Posted July 27, 2016

SAP SE is making big changes and introducing product innovations in its enterprise information management (EIM) portfolio to offer improved support for cloud and Big Data environments, enhancements for more self-service capabilities, and comprehensive support for governing enterprise information.

Posted July 27, 2016

The only constant is change. So, get ready for it. Maybe that's easier said than done. Too often, we, as DBAs, are flooded with change when it comes to database sche­mas, and keeping up with updates isn't as simple as just being ready. Develop­ers don't get that, though. Updating the application is pretty easy—simply copy over the existing application binary with the new one, and if there's something wrong, roll back by getting the old version from the build server.

Posted July 27, 2016

Ending months of months of speculation on who would acquire Yahoo's operating business, including search engine, email services, and web properties, Verizon Communications Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which Verizon will acquire Yahoo for approximately $4.83 billion in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments. The deal is expected to close in Q1 of 2017.

Posted July 27, 2016

Workday, a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Platfora, a provider of operational analytics and data discovery tools that enable companies to visually interact with and analyze large volumes of data. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in Workday's third fiscal quarter, were not disclosed.

Posted July 27, 2016

When it comes to assigning value to different components in today's IT environment, it would be a serious mistake to underestimate the value of data and databases. Whether you are looking to reduce downtime and speed up your database-centric application or to save money and time on optimizing your database servers, the following best practices can help you improve the performance of your SQL Server environment and, ultimately, your business service delivery process.

Posted July 26, 2016

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Posted July 25, 2016

AT&T and IBM are teaming up to combine their strengths in cognitive computing and global connectivity to create open standards-based tools on the IBM Cloud to enable developers to more quickly build and implement Internet of Things-based solutions.

Posted July 25, 2016

Cloudera, a provider of data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and additional open source technologies, has introduced Cloudera Navigator Optimizer, alongside the production release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.8. First launched in beta in late 2015, Navigator Optimizer, now generally available, is targeted at customers looking to modernize their analytic database or augment their data warehouse solution with Hadoop, and helps to provide insights for predictably offloading key workloads. The tool also provides DBAs with the usage visibility to manage Hadoop data models and guidance to optimize query performance.

Posted July 21, 2016

Hazelcast and Heimdall Data are launching an integrated platform that provides a SQL solution that tackles the issue of on-premise or cloud application uptime and scalability caused by deficient application-to-database interaction.

Posted July 20, 2016

Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.

Posted July 20, 2016

IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.

Posted July 20, 2016

Looking for specialized education and networking? Join an IOUG Special Interest Group (SIG) to get connected with others who share the same interests as you.

Posted July 20, 2016

The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is excited to be joining the Oracle technology community in San Francisco once again at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, September 18-22.

Posted July 20, 2016

Database administration is undergoing some significant changes these days. The DBA, traditionally, is the technician responsible for ensuring the ongoing operational functionality and efficiency of an organization's databases and the applications that access that data. But modern DBAs are relied upon to do far more than just stoke the fires to keep database systems performing

Posted July 20, 2016

BT and Oracle have announced they are working together to offer customers direct connectivity to the Oracle Cloud. Together, BT and Oracle say they are aiming to remove barriers to cloud adoption by providing options for connectivity from hybrid enterprise data centers to the Oracle Cloud.

Posted July 20, 2016

The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) has introduced a new program for ISVs, Oracle Cloud Platform Ready, to enable ISV partners to register and publish their Oracle Cloud-compatible applications on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

Posted July 20, 2016

Splice Machine, provider of an RDBMS powered by Hadoop and Spark, has announced a cloud-based sandbox for developers to put its just launched open source Community Edition to the test. The company is making available an open source standalone and cluster download, and has announced the general availability of V2.0, and the launch of its developer community site.

Posted July 19, 2016

Monte Zweben, CEO and co-founder of the company that was founded in 2012, talks with Big Data Quarterly about why Splice Machine has rolled out an open source Community Edition - and why it is doing so now

Posted July 18, 2016

Delphix is developing a three-tiered Channel Partner Program to support a growing demand for more agile data management.

Posted July 15, 2016

Qubole is launching its Cloudera Migration Program and is partnering with WANdisco to assist enterprises in expanding their use of big data by leveraging the advantages of the cloud.

Posted July 15, 2016

Sisense is making significant advancements to its platform to simplify the consumption of BI insights using IoT devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Sisense Business Intelligence Virtually Everywhere is launching as a public beta program with its first two devices -- a Sisense-enabled Amazon Echo and a Sisense-enabled IoT lightbulb.

Posted July 15, 2016

Dataguise is releasing its security platform in the Amazon Web Services AWS Marketplace, allowing users to detect, protect, and monitor sensitive data as it moves across platforms.

Posted July 14, 2016

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