The Top Technologies and Strategies in Analytics for 2015
Posted March 09, 2015
Capitalizing on Data from the Internet of Things
Posted March 09, 2015
Hadoop distribution provider MapR Technologies has announced the results of testing based on the recently released benchmark for big data technologies from TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council). The recently released TPCx-HS benchmark for big data technologies is a series of tests that compare Hadoop architectures across several dimensions. Cisco is also now reselling the MapR Distribution with Cisco UCS, as part of an agreement that includes marketing, sales and training worldwide.
Posted March 05, 2015
"This acquisition is strategic, synergistic, and will strengthen our leadership in the big data and Hadoop market," said Shimon Alon, Attunity's chairman and CEO, during a conference call this morning discussing his company's purchase of Appfluent, a provider of data usage analytics for big data environments, including data warehousing and Hadoop. "We also expect it to accelerate our revenue growth and to be accretive to earnings." The total purchase price is approximately $18 million, payable in cash and stock, with additional earn-out consideration based on performance milestones.
Posted March 05, 2015
IBM has acquired AlchemyAPI, a Denver-based provider of cognitive computing application program interface (API) services and deep learning technology. The goal IBM says is to improve the development of next generation cognitive computing applications. IBM says the acquisition also expands the Watson ecosystem, with the addition of 40,000 developers to the IBM Watson developer community. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed
Posted March 04, 2015
Oracle has announced the release of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, Update 40 (JDK 8u40). "With these updates to JDK 8, we continue to usher in the next era of Java to enable developers and enterprises alike to cement Java's role as the backbone of today's and tomorrow's revolutionary business solutions," said Georges Saab, vice president of development, Java Platform at Oracle.
Posted March 04, 2015
Oracle says it is addressing two major networking requirements for cloud-enabled data centers with new high performance, low cost 10Gb/40Gb Ethernet switches and the addition of virtual network services to Oracle SDN. The new networking technologies are aimed at providing the flexibility and scalability for both enterprise data centers and network function virtualization infrastructure.
Posted March 04, 2015
To address the growing requirements posed by the proliferation of digital devices and platforms, and the resulting need for online transaction processing to be as efficient as possible, Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.4. Cluster has had "huge success" in the telco and mobile industry, as well as the mobile gaming industry which similarly finds benefit in its capabilities. As a result, many of the requirements driving the product forward are geared to those workload demands, explained Tomas Ulin, vice president, MySQL engineering, Oracle.
Posted March 04, 2015
Hadoop Day is Coming to Data Summit 2015
Posted March 03, 2015
Informatica, a data management company, is collaborating with two major big data players - Capgemini and Pivotal - on a data lake solution. As part of the Business Data Lake ecosystem developed by Capgemini and Pivotal, Informatica will deliver certified technologies for data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM).
Posted March 03, 2015
Data Summit to Present Deep-Dive Big Data Workshops
Posted March 03, 2015
MongoDB 3.0 Introduces Flexible Storage Architecture
Posted March 03, 2015
Data as a set of information can only go so far. Many businesses need to be able to create data visualizations to enable the tangible benefits of being able to study data for better business practices. TIBCO, a provider of infrastructure and business intelligence software, is releasing a new release of Spotfire that is aimed at serving everyone from the novice user to the expert user.
Posted March 03, 2015
Gaining Real Value from the Internet of Things
Posted March 03, 2015
Making Hadoop and Your Enterprise Warehouse Work
Posted March 03, 2015
Xplenty has formed a partnership with Avlino, a big data solutions provider, to further accelerate batch processing within Xplenty's software. With the new partnership, Xplenty and Avlino say they want to reverse a commonly accepted industry statistic concerning data processing - that it takes business users 80% of the time to prepare data, allowing them only 20% of the time to actually analyze it.
Posted March 03, 2015
2015 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards: The Nominations Are Open
Posted March 03, 2015
IBM Drives its New Mainframe Deeper into the Cloud
Posted March 02, 2015
CA Technologies announced "Day One" support for IBM's z13, allowing customers to take advantage of the z13's advanced mobile, cloud and analytic capabilities. According to CA, the new mainframe delivers a high level of insight through secure management of exponentially growing data volume and an integrated transaction and analytics system.
Posted March 02, 2015
Compuware Corporation and BMC Software, Inc. are partnering to improve the economics of IBM z Systems ownership. By doing so, the two companies hope to help empower customers to reduce mainframe operating expenses, even as they more aggressively leverage their high-value mainframe applications, data and processing capacity.
Posted March 02, 2015
SUSE announced the general availability of a self-managing, self-healing, distributed software-based storage solution for enterprise customers. It is powered by Ceph, a popular open-source distributed storage solution. SUSE Enterprise Storage is designed to help organizations to build storage using commodity off-the-shelf servers and disk drives.
Posted March 02, 2015
Syncsort, a provider of big data and mainframe software, has completed the acquisition of UK-based William Data Systems, a provider of advanced network monitoring and security software products for the IBM z Systems z/OS mainframe platform. According to Syncsort, because the mainframe is a high-volume transactional supercomputer, the networking and security data collected by the William Data product suite is particularly valuable to fast-growing big data and analytical platforms.
Posted March 02, 2015
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), has announced the members of its 2015 executive committee, which is responsible for the organization's strategic planning process and direction.
Posted March 02, 2015
InterSystems, a provider of data management technologies, has introduced a new release of its SQL/NoSQL platform Caché, which doubles the scalability of prior releases, based on independent third-party testing.
Posted February 26, 2015
To address the growing requirements posed by the proliferation of digital devices and platforms, and the resulting need for online transaction processing to be as efficient as possible, Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.4. Cluster has had "huge success" in the telco and mobile industry, as well as the mobile gaming industry which similarly finds benefit in its capabilities. As a result, many of the requirements driving the product forward are geared to those workload demands, explained Tomas Ulin, vice president, MySQL engineering, Oracle.
Posted February 26, 2015
SAP and the National Hockey League (NHL) have announced a multi-year partnership. To start, SAP and the NHL are focusing on increasing fan engagement and deepening fan loyalty with the newly released statistics platform on NHL.com powered by the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service.
Posted February 25, 2015
Early bird pricing has been extended to February 28 for ISUG-TECH's 2015 conference taking place March 29-April 2 at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia. "This conference provides a unique opportunity for attendees to take advantage of some really in-depth training that they don't typically get exposure to - especially when you talk about ASE, IQ, PowerBuilder, PowerDesigner, and HANA. The folks that are putting on the training sessions for us are the most senior product engineers," said Bryan Enochs, acting president at ISUG-TECH.
Posted February 25, 2015
Zenmonics Inc., a provider of information technology solutions for the banking and finance sector, has joined the SAP PartnerEdge program as an SAP software solution partner, and will collaborate with SAP on bringing the latest mobile technology to global financial institutions.
Posted February 25, 2015
SAP has announced the general availability of the SAP Cloud for Planning solution, which simplifies planning processes with a consumer app-like user experience. Built natively on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud for Planning embeds social collaboration and analytics directly within the context of the planning process so people can plan, analyze and discuss in context rather than having to jump to another application.
Posted February 25, 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 25, 2015
Kore Technologies, a provider of solutions for enterprise integration, data warehousing, business intelligence, and e-commerce solutions, is making available a replay of a webinar for the Eclipse Users Group, an independent organization of distribution companies which use the Epicor Eclipse software. Separately, Kore will also be presenting "Using SQL Integration to Improve Enrollment Reporting" at the Community College Conference in Monterey, CA, on March 9.
Posted February 25, 2015
Rocket Software, a global software development firm, has released UniData 8.1, which represents the largest release in terms of number of enhanced features in 10 years to the MultiValue database management system. UniData's innovative features help organizations in hundreds of industries improve their ability to manage massive amounts of data by delivering fast response times.
Posted February 25, 2015
MultiValue Special Section: MultiValue Vendors Pushing Boundaries
Posted February 25, 2015
Uncovering the Advantages of N1QL, Couchbase's Query Language
Posted February 24, 2015
Sqrrl, a big data analytics company that develops software to uncover hidden patterns, trends, and links in data, has announced the launch of Sqrrl Enterprise 2.0 coinciding with receiving $7 million in new funding. Sqrrl was developed by former employees of the NSA. "We don't shy away from our NSA heritage, we see it as a strength," stated Ely Kahn, co-founder and director of business development for Sqrrl.
Posted February 24, 2015
DBTA Webcast: Hadoop and Your Enterprise Data Warehouse" - February 25 at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET
Posted February 23, 2015
Early Bird Pricing Open for Data Summit 2015
Posted February 23, 2015
MapR Technologies has introduced the latest version of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop, with new features that support real-time applications on globally-distributed, big and fast data.The company also launched three new quick start solutions to help jump-start customers' Hadoop deployments with MapR. The quick start solutions address common and high value Hadoop use cases.
Posted February 19, 2015
Oracle Big Data Discovery and GoldenGate for Big Data Make Enterprise Big Data a "Team Sport"
Posted February 19, 2015
New Couchbase Server Integration with Hortonworks Data Platform
Posted February 19, 2015
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Release 11.1.2.4, now available from Oracle, incorporates key updates to the entire portfolio of EPM applications that enable organizations to engineer predictable performance, connect the enterprise, and further improve decision-making.
Posted February 18, 2015
Oracle Linux images are now available on the Docker Hub Registry, a repository for Docker-based components, including applications and operating systems. Oracle Linux joins MySQL, which is already on Docker Hub and has been downloaded millions of times. "With Oracle Linux and MySQL images available on the Docker Hub Registry, users will be able to quickly create and publish custom Docker containers that layer applications on top of Oracle Linux and MySQL, which is a great time-saver for both independent software vendors and IT departments," said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle.
Posted February 18, 2015
Seagate has begun shipping a new backup device designed as an all-in-one appliance engineered for large enterprise companies and service providers seeking a data protection solution for multiple operating systems and applications, including Oracle databases. The BTA is based on Seagate's hybrid cloud model, which supports environments where both private (on-premises) and public (off-premise) storage is utilized. It enables backup to a private, public or partner cloud and features 65TB of useable storage capacity
Posted February 18, 2015
Informatica, a provider of data integration software, has announced a joint Data Warehouse Optimization solution with Cisco for organizations looking to modernize data management. The Data Warehouse Optimization solution works with a customer's Apache Hadoop distribution of choice, including Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR.
Posted February 18, 2015
Pentaho to Deliver On Demand Big Data Analytics
Posted February 18, 2015
Syncsort, a provider of big data and mainframe software, has completed the acquisition of UK-based William Data Systems, a provider of advanced network monitoring and security software products for the IBM z Systems z/OS mainframe platform. According to Syncsort, because the mainframe is a high-volume transactional supercomputer, the networking and security data collected by the William Data product suite is particularly valuable to fast-growing big data and analytical platforms.
Posted February 18, 2015
HP has introduced a new offering called HP Haven Predictive Analytics to accelerate and operationalize large-scale machine learning and statistical analysis.
Posted February 18, 2015
GridGain Systems, provider of open source and commercial in-memory data fabric solutions, is introducing a new release of the GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric Enterprise Edition built on Apache Ignite. Available for download in early in Q2, the new release includes ease-of-use and automation features to help simplify the deployment of the software as well as the migration from legacy in-memory data grids.
Posted February 18, 2015
BMC Software announced plans to acquire assets of CDB Software, Inc., a mainframe data management company that has developed utilities for managing IBM DB2 databases with a minimum of outages. CDB's technology includes software utilities for DB2 administration, maintenance, application tuning, and backup/recovery.
Posted February 17, 2015
StackIQ Inc., a provider of server automation solutions, has released a new version of software offering key new data center automation capabilities. "Boss 5 extends our full stack server automation capabilities to Docker containers as well as enhancing all of our Hadoop and OpenStack solutions," says Tim McIntire, CEO and co-founder of StackIQ Inc.
Posted February 17, 2015