Big Data Articles
MemSQL, provider of a distributed in-memory database that enables processing of transactions and running of analytics in real time, has closed its series C financing, raising $36 million. This latest MemSQL funding round brings the total amount raised to $85 million.
Posted April 21, 2016
Percona, a provider of MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, is releasing an updated version of Percona Server for MongoDB .
Posted April 21, 2016
GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory data fabric solutions based on Apache Ignite, is releasing a new version of its platform. GridGain Professional Edition includes the latest version of Apache Ignite plus LGPL libraries, along with a subscription that includes monthly maintenance releases with bug fixes that have been contributed to the Apache Ignite project but will be included only with the next quarterly Ignite release.
Posted April 20, 2016
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.
Posted April 20, 2016
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted April 20, 2016
The Call for Papers for DOAG 2016 Conference and Exhibition is open. Now it is time to submit your abstracts, anyone can become a speaker. For the first time, even candidates without prior lecturing experience can apply.
Posted April 20, 2016
Every month IOUG shines the spotlight on one of our members! This month we are featuring Kimberly Floss, Director of Global Database Services, PepsiCo.
Posted April 20, 2016
Thanks so much to everyone who joined us last week in Las Vegas for COLLABORATE 16 - IOUG Forum. It was a great week filled with education, networking and lots of knowledge being shared between Oracle experts.
Posted April 20, 2016
The COLLABORATE 16 conference for Oracle users kicked off with a presentation by Unisphere Research analyst Joe McKendrick who shared insights from a ground-breaking study that examined future trends and technology among 690 members of three major Oracle users groups.
Posted April 20, 2016
To help organizations that are being held back from moving enterprise workloads to a public cloud because of business, legislative, or regulatory requirements that restrict where and how they handle data, Oracle has launched a new set of offerings. Introduced at Oracle CloudWorld in Washington, DC, by Thomas Kurian, president, Oracle, "Oracle Cloud at Customer" enables organizations to get the benefits of Oracle's cloud services but in their own data center.
Posted April 20, 2016
Dataguise, a provider of data security solutions, is making DgSecure available for the detection, monitoring, and protection of sensitive data across Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) and all Elastic MapReduce (EMR) platforms that use AWS S3.
Posted April 19, 2016
Imagine trying to fill a prescription at the pharmacy only to discover that, due to some unknown error in some faraway IT system, your health insurance coverage isn't available. At best, this could be a minor frustration, but at worst it creates a serious medical hardship that puts policyholders at risk.
Posted April 18, 2016
Sumo Logic, a provider of cloud-native, machine data analytics services, is unveiling a new platform that natively ingests, indexes, and analyzes structured metrics data, and unstructured log data together in real-time.
Posted April 18, 2016
Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company, is making key investments in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Analytics of Things (AoT), along with updating its signature platforms.
Posted April 18, 2016
Hortonworks is making several key updates to its platform along with furthering its mission as being a leading innovator of open and connected data solutions by enhancing partnerships with Pivotal and expanding upon established integrations with Syncsort.
Posted April 15, 2016
First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical data analytics capabilities such as SQL, advanced analytics, and streaming in a single framework. Databricks is a company that was founded by the team that created and continues to lead both the development and training around Apache Spark.
Posted April 14, 2016
Lavastorm is releasing its Accelerators Library solution at no cost to users, offering an array of preconfigured components that make it easier and faster for all Lavastorm users to build analytic applications regardless of technical acumen.
Posted April 14, 2016
Dell is releasing an upgraded version of its Statistica advanced analytics platform, providing tools to address Internet of Things (IoT) analytics requirements and leverage heterogeneous data environments.
Posted April 14, 2016
IDERA is releasing its SQL Inventory Check platform for free to allow database administrators (DBAs) to easily discover servers on the network and verify versions to keep them properly maintained or to prepare for migrations.
Posted April 13, 2016
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, is releasing an enhanced version of its namesake platform, addressing key areas of the user experience, machine-to-machine integration, automation, and more.
Posted April 12, 2016
DataStax, provider of database software for cloud applications, is releasing a scale-out graph database solution built for cloud applications, providing users with a new tool for maintaining their highly connected data.
Posted April 12, 2016
Magnitude Software, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, unveiled a new a master data management offering designed to fuel business processes with accurate customer data for informed decision making.
Posted April 08, 2016
Thanks to the digital business transformation, the world around us is changing—and quickly—to a very consumer- and data-centric economy, where companies must transform to remain competitive and survive. The upshot is that for many companies today, it is a full-on Darwinian experience of survival of the fittest.
Posted April 08, 2016
SnapLogic is releasing its hybrid execution framework Snaplex on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace as Azureplex, giving users the ability to gain business insights faster with self-service data integration from a plethora of sources.
Posted April 07, 2016
Segment, which provides a customer data hub, has introduced a new platform that will give companies access to new types of cloud services data. The new platform, dubbed "Sources," allows users to now export, sync, and store data from CRM, marketing, and payments platforms and move it into Postgres or Amazon Redshift for analysis.
Posted April 07, 2016
Qubole, a big data-as-a-service company, is open sourcing its Quark platform, a cost-based SQL optimizer. The Quark project is also available in a SaaS implementation via the Qubole Data Service (QDS).
Posted April 07, 2016
Delphix is making major updates to its data operations platform, delivering enhancements to strengthen secure application development in the data center and in the cloud. "One of the main bottlenecks that we hear about over and over is management of all of this data," Dan Graves, vice president of product marketing. "That's where Delphix comes in. Our core value is unlocking that data in a secure way to allow businesses to a have fast, fresh, full production environment."
Posted April 06, 2016
Private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners has completed the acquisition of ERwin, from CA Technologies. ERwin will now operate as ERwin, Inc., and will be led by Adam Famularo, who has been named CEO of ERwin.
Posted April 06, 2016
Sisense has announced improvements in its In-Chip Analytics software to help business users and data analysts more easily gain insights from complex data with disparate datasets. According to the vendor, when tested with Intel's recently-released 6th Generation Intel Core vPro processor, it was able to deliver a 300% improvement in speed over older chips.
Posted April 05, 2016
Connor Krukosky is an 18 year old college student with a hobby of collecting vintage computers. One day, he decided to buy his own mainframe...an IBM z890. This is his story.
Posted April 04, 2016
Yellowfin is releasing an updated version of its namesake platform, enhancing the business analytics workflow, API connectors, and forecasting.
Posted April 04, 2016
PASS (the Professional Association for SQL Server) is planning its fourth conference focused on business analytics.
Posted April 04, 2016
Impelsys, provider of publishing and learning technology solutions, and Ontotext, a provider of semantic technology, are releasing an integrated technology offering.
Posted April 04, 2016
IBM says it is making it easier and faster for organizations to access and analyze data in-place on the IBM z Systems mainframe with a new z/OS Platform for Apache Spark. The platform enables Spark to run natively on the z/OS mainframe operating system.
Posted April 04, 2016
The emergence of big data, characterized in terms of its four V's—volume, variety, velocity, and veracity—has created both opportunities and challenges for credit scoring.
Posted April 04, 2016
Databricks, the company behind Apache Spark, is releasing a new set of APIs that will enable enterprises to automate their Spark infrastructure to accelerate the deployment of production data-driven applications.
Posted April 01, 2016
ManageEngine is introducing a new application performance monitoring solution, enabling IT operations teams in enterprises to gain operational intelligence into big data platforms. Applications Manager enables performance monitoring of Hadoop clusters to minimize downtime and performance degradation. Additionally, the platform's monitoring support for Oracle Coherence provides insights into the health and performance of Coherence clusters and facilitates troubleshooting of issues.
Posted April 01, 2016
Oracle offers a variety of videos on the cloud and other big data applications.
Posted April 01, 2016
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers on database protection.
Posted April 01, 2016
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers on Flash Storage.
Posted April 01, 2016
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers on Cloud Storage.
Posted April 01, 2016
The cloud has changed everything—it's one of the major industry transitions of the last 20 years. Cloud is disrupting not only IT providers, but, more importantly, how you purchase, consume, and use computing and storage resources.
Posted April 01, 2016
Join us for the Storage Special Interest Group Happy Hour, Wednesday, April 13th, from 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. It's a great opportunity to network with peers and interact with subject matter experts across Oracle's Converged Infrastructure and Cloud teams.
Posted April 01, 2016
As data visualization increasingly becomes top-of-mind for data-driven organizations, it's time to introduce the concept of data visualization competency. There is a need today to provide a framework to fingerprint data visualizations as unique digital assets in the business for maximum impact and consistent execution against strategic business practices and goals.
Posted April 01, 2016
Hershey's LLC recently deployed the Infosys Information Platform on AWS to analyze retail store data.
Posted March 31, 2016
It's become almost a standard career path in Silicon Valley: A talented engineer creates a valuable open source software commodity inside of a larger organization, then leaves that company to create a new startup to commercialize the open source product. Indeed, this is virtually the plot line for the hilarious HBO comedy series, Silicon Valley. Jay Krepes, a well-known engineer at LinkedIn and creator of the NoSQL database system, Voldemort, has such a story.
Posted March 31, 2016
What makes an IT organization static or dynamic? What triggers an organization to move from one to the other? The transformation is not easy and it certainly does not happen quickly. These questions can also be asked at a personal level. As an IT professional, are you more likely to be static or dynamic?
Posted March 31, 2016
Ever wonder what happened to artificial intelligence? It's gotten easier and more accessible. In fact, AI's been embedded into some of the most fundamental aspects of data management, making those critical data-driven processes more celeritous and manageable. Best of all, AI is directly responsible for producing this effect for end users—those who rely on data most to do their jobs.
Posted March 31, 2016