Big Data Articles
RapidMiner is releasing self-service analytics for Hadoop. RapidMiner offers a solution that accelerates time to value for building and deploying advanced analytic models with numerous types of data. "Our value is around accelerating time to value for our customers. We do this through pre-built models which we call accelerators," stated Michele Chambers, president and COO at RapidMiner.
Posted February 17, 2015
Tamr, Inc., has introduced a new version of its scalable data unification platform that lets enterprises continuously deliver better data to decision-makers. In a related announcement, Tamr also unveiled two data-unification solutions for specific, high-value data variety challenges: Tamr for CDISC and Tamr for Procurement. Founded in 2013 by big data entrepreneurs Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, Tamr is based in Cambridge, Mass.
Posted February 17, 2015
To help simplify Hadoop deployments, Datameer is partnering with cloud providers Altiscale and Bigstep, to introduce Datameer Professional, a SaaS big data analytics platform targeted at department-specific deployments.
Posted February 17, 2015
Hadoop heavyweight Pivotal is open sourcing components of its Big Data Suite, including Pivotal HD, HAWQ, Greenplum Database, and GemFire; forming the Open Data Platform (ODP), a new industry foundation along with founding members GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, SAS, and other big data leaders; and forging a new business and technology partnership with Hortonworks.
Posted February 17, 2015
Contending that big data is meaningless to an organization if it is not correct and complete, Trillium Software has unveiled Trillium Big Data, a data quality solution that extends the capabilities of the flagship Trillium Software System to the Hadoop big data environment. "Trillium Big Data is the second in a series of planned new product launches for Trillium Software in 2015 which will help organizations increase the value of their data," said Phil Galati, CEO at Trillium Software.
Posted February 12, 2015
Someone new to big data and Hadoop might be forgiven for feeling a bit confused after reading some of the recent press coverage on Hadoop. On one hand, Hadoop has achieved very bullish coverage in mainstream media. However, counter to this positive coverage, there have been a number of claims that Hadoop is overhyped. What's a person to make of all these mixed messages?
Posted February 11, 2015
Attunity recently added new capabilities to its solution suite with the acquisition of BIReady's data warehouse automation technology, which eliminates the complex, manual tasks of preparing data for BI and big data analytics. Lawrence Schwartz, Attunity's vice president of marketing, spoke with DBTA about BIReady and other Attunity solutions for customers dealing with big data projects.
Posted February 11, 2015
The "Internet of Things" (IoT) is opening up a new world of data interchange between devices, sensors, and applications, enabling businesses to monitor, in real time, the health and performance of products long after they leave the production premises. At the same time, enterprises now have access to valuable data—again, in real time if desired—on how customers are adopting products and services.
Posted February 11, 2015
MarkLogic 8 supports server-side JavaScript and JSON, and includes enterprise features such as semantics and bitemporal. In addition, to make it easier for organizations to get started with their first MarkLogic-powered applications in the cloud the company is offering a free, 1-year version of its Enterprise NoSQL database platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted February 10, 2015
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has announced plans to acquire Pentaho Corporation, a big data integration and business analytics company with an open source-based platform for diverse big data deployments. According to Hitachi, the acquisition helps to fulfill its strategy of delivering business innovations that integrate machine data, information technology, and analytics to distill value from big data and the Internet of Things. The acquisition of Pentaho is expected to be complete by June 2015.
Posted February 10, 2015
Attivio has introduced Attivio 4.3, a single platform for search and discovery initiatives. The result, the company says, is that organizations with structured and unstructured data in disparate silos will be able to gain faster access to all information or practical business uses.
Posted February 10, 2015
DH2i has announced general availability of DxEnterprise container management software for Microsoft Windows Server applications and workloads. DxEnterprise software decouples Windows Server application instances from a physical server, virtual machine (VM) or cloud server via its lightweight container called a virtual host, or Vhost.
Posted February 10, 2015
Lavastorm Analytics, a data management and analytics software company, has added new functionality within the Lavastorm Analytics Engine platform that enables business analysts who have a limited knowledge of complex data science to deliver insights using predictive analytics.
Posted February 10, 2015
MemSQL has introduced the MemSQL Spark Connector. According to the vendor, the combination of an in-memory database from MemSQL and Spark's memory optimized processing framework gives enterprises the benefit of fast access to transactions, ETL, and analytics. The MemSQL Spark Connector is also available as an open source offering, providing developers the ability to adapt it to their needs.
Posted February 10, 2015
Splice Machine has announced that it has achieved Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) certification by completing the required integration testing with Hortonworks Data Platform. As a result of the HDP Certification, Splice Machine customers can leverage the pre-built and validated integrations between enterprise technologies and the Hortonworks Data Platform, an open source Hadoop distribution, to simplify and accelerate their Splice Machine and Hadoop deployments.
Posted February 05, 2015
In the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, quarterly sales for Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud (Oracle ERP Cloud) and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud (Oracle EPM Cloud) increased by 80%, according to Oracle.
Posted February 04, 2015
During a live event, Larry Ellison, Oracle's executive chairman of the board and CTO, outlined a new strategy for reducing customer costs and increasing value with the company's next generation of engineered systems. In the presentation today, Ellison emphasized two key points.
Posted February 04, 2015
DataStax, provider of an enterprise distribution of Apache Cassandra, has acquired Aurelius LLC, provider of the open source graph database Titan.
Posted February 03, 2015
VoltDB, which provides an in-memory, scale-out SQL database, is releasing version 5.0 of its software. "Developers are in need of better tools with which to develop fast data streaming applications with real-time analytics and decision making across industries," said Bruce Reading, president and CEO of VoltDB.
Posted February 03, 2015
BlueData Software, Inc., which provides the EPIC software platform that allows enterprises to create a public cloud-like experience from their on-premise environments, has announced a technology preview of the Tachyon in-memory distributed storage system as a new option. This new integration enables Hadoop, Hbase virtual clusters, and other applications provisioned in the BlueData platform, to take advantage of Tachyon's high performance in-memory data processing.
Posted February 03, 2015
Rackspace has announced support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and AlwaysOn Availability. With Rackspace DBA Services, customers can now use Rackspace database administrators (DBA) to migrate or upgrade existing workloads to SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP on the Rackspace Managed Cloud
Posted February 03, 2015
SnapLogic, which provides iPaaS (integration platform as a service), has released a new service to speed the process by which time-sensitive data is delivered to cloud and big data applications. "Ultra Pipelines are a breakthrough for enterprise companies with real-time data-driven insights needs such as a sales and marketing programs, data science for predictive analysis, and customer data distributed across multiple systems," says Niraj Nagrani, vice president of engineering at SnapLogic.
Posted February 03, 2015
SAP has announced SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). The new product is built on the in-memory platform SAP HANA and is designed leveraging the SAP Fiori user experience (UX) for mobile devices. The announcement was made at a launch event at the New York Stock Exchange.
Posted February 03, 2015
MongoDB has introduced MongoDB 3.0. According to Kelly Stirman, director of products at MongoDB, the new NoSQL database release introduces two key innovations that make the system well suited for the demanding requirements of large enterprises.
Posted February 03, 2015
Cloud Foundry Foundation, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) open source project, has been launched as an independent non-profit foundation. The Cloud Foundry Foundation will be managed as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project and operate under a system of open governance created by a team of open source experts from founding Platinum Members EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Pivotal, SAP, and VMware. "SAP is committed to contributing to open-source PaaS technologies, including integration of technologies such as the SAP HANA® platform and Internet of Things as part of SAP HANA Cloud Platform," said Björn Goerke, executive vice president and corporate officer, Product and Innovation Technology, SAP.
Posted January 29, 2015
Rackspace has announced new support for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and AlwaysOn Availability. Rackspace now powers more than 10,000 compute instances running Microsoft SQL Server on its private and public clouds. By combining In-Memory OLTP with Managed High Availability, Rackspace says it can help customers speed up OLTP workloads to up to 30x while enabling greater uptime.
Posted January 28, 2015
There's good news and bad news on the cybersecurity front, an IBM study finds. Over the past 2 years, there has been a 50% decline in the number of cyberattacks against U.S. retailers. However, the number of records stolen from them remains at near record highs. IBM security researchers report that in 2014, cyber attackers still managed to steal more than 61 million records from retailers despite the decline in attacks, demonstrating cyber criminals' increasing sophistication and efficiency. Ironically, while Black Friday and Cyber Monday were identified as the two biggest shopping days of the year by IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark, cyber attackers reduced their activity across all industries on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, rather than taking action.
Posted January 28, 2015
Pneuron Corp., a provider of distributed solutions, has partnered with UST Global, an information technology solutions and services company for Global 1000 enterprises. The partnership is targeted at financial services, insurance and healthcare — three verticals where, the vendors say, diverse, complex and constantly changing requirements must be expertly served.
Posted January 26, 2015
Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of software and services for R, a programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics using big data.
Posted January 23, 2015
To help organizations leverage the full range of big data to drive better decision making, Novetta has launched data refinement, entity resolution and analysis software that it says will power large-scale analytics on all data in Hadoop. The solution is now certified to run on Cloudera CDH and Hortonworks HDP.
Posted January 23, 2015
It is no secret that we are in the data age. Data comes at us from all directions, in all shapes and sizes.Incumbent vendors and startups constantly add new features, build on top of emerging open source projects, and claim to solve the next wave of challenges. Within the Hadoop ecosystem alone, there are (at least) 11 Hadoop-related open source projects. Making sense of it can be a time-consuming headache. To bring clarity and peace of mind, here are the top 5 big data predictions for 2015 and beyond.
Posted January 21, 2015
Registration is now open for Data Summit 2015, providing the opportunity to connect with the best minds in the industry, learn what works, and chart your course forward in an increasingly data-driven world. The event is designed to offer a comprehensive educational experience designed to guide attendees through the key issues in data management and analysis today.
Posted January 21, 2015
Cloud is being embraced strongly at Oracle. That is the message loud and clear from the company, which brought its CloudWorld to New York City on January 13. During the event, which drew customers, analysts, and thought leaders, Oracle offered an overview of its cloud strategy and the progress the company has made thus far in addressing consumers and enterprise constituents in the cloud. Oracle's cloud strategy is very simple, said Thomas Kurian, president, Oracle Product Development. The idea is to bring Oracle's business applications, technology, software, database, middleware, analytic tools and infrastructure "to any customer anywhere in the world through the internet browser."
Posted January 21, 2015
To meet the growing demands of mobile consumers, IBM today unveiled the z13, the first mainframe designed for the growth of the mobile app economy. According to IBM, the new system delivers scale and economics together with real-time encryption and analytics to help meet the expectations of consumers for speed and safety for trillions of transactions in the mobile economy.
Posted January 20, 2015
CloudLink Technologies, a provider of cloud security and data encryption management solutions has added CloudLink SecureVM support for Microsoft Azure Key Vault, a cloud-hosted HSM-backed service for managing cryptographic keys and other secrets used in your cloud applications. According to the companies, with this solution, the cloud provider is responsible for key generation and storage. The customer, as the data owner, controls the security policy that regulates encryption key access and use.
Posted January 20, 2015
Xplenty, which provides a big data processing platform powered by Hadoop, is partnering with Segment, which provides a customer data hub. Segment is a universal integration layer that supports customer data collection. Through a single platform, it collects, translates, and routes data to analytics and marketing tools.
Posted January 20, 2015
Basho Technologies, the creator and developer of Riak, a distributed NoSQL database, has closed a $25 million Series G funding round led by existing investor Georgetown Partners. The additional funding is being used to expand development and marketing activities, the company said.
Posted January 19, 2015
The goal in every Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c rollout is to take it from zero to manageability in the shortest time possible. This presentation will show you how to accomplish this feat.
Posted January 14, 2015
The manageability track at COLLABORATE 15 - IOUG Forum is designed to provide DBAs of every experience level and industry with the knowledge set to streamline IT management processes at their organization and accelerate their transformation to cloud.
Posted January 14, 2015
A new Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) survey results outlines some of the critical issues facing organizations today when it comes to application performance.
Posted January 14, 2015
Oracle has announced an update to Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12 Release 4. The update is now available on OTN.
Posted January 14, 2015
For the 22nd consecutive year, IBM topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients. The company just announced that it received a record 7,534 patents in 2014, and that on average, IBM inventors earned more than 20 patents a day. After IBM, the next top patent earner in 2014 was Samsung with 4,952. During IBM's 22 years at the top of the patent list, IBM inventors have received more than 81,500 U.S. patents.
Posted January 12, 2015