Big Data Articles
IBM announced upgrades to its IBM Spectrum Storage family of software-defined storage, intended to help companies improve storage management, data security and reduce data costs. The new line is designed to help clients embrace the explosive growth of data.
Posted November 09, 2015
IBM announced that it has acquired Gravitant, Inc., a privately held company that develops cloud-based software to help organizations plan, buy and manage, or "broker," software and computing services from multiple suppliers across hybrid clouds. With such capabilities, mixed environments of private and public clouds can begin to be integrated and digitally managed as one for greater performance and efficiency.
Posted November 09, 2015
MariaDB Corporation's MariaDB Enterprise Cluster with MaxScale platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The move will enable Azure customers to deploy a MariaDB cluster and MaxScale with minimal effort, benefit from the wide range of services provided by MaxScale for security, scaling and maintenance, and leverage the breadth and flexibility of the Azure cloud.
Posted November 06, 2015
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.
Posted November 04, 2015
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted November 04, 2015
Everyone has had their database, server or even application fail. What matters is how you handle it, correct it and move on. The Q3 issue ofSELECT Journal focuses on bouncing back and continuing onward.
Posted November 04, 2015
Every month IOUG shines the spotlight on one of our members! This month we are spotlighting Anuj Mohan, Sr. Exadata DBA/Architect, Technical Account Manager, Data Intensity and President of IOUG Oracle 12c SIG.
Posted November 04, 2015
Every year, we ask members of the IOUG community to share the tips and best practices they use in their work all the time - the code snippets and favorite queries they keep within easy reach. And this year is no exception.
Posted November 04, 2015
Join us for COLLABORATE 16 - IOUG Forum in Las Vegas April 10-14, 2016 and take advantage of over 1,000 of user-selected, technical sessions, focused on 12c, Virtualization, Big Data, Cloud, Storage, and more. Registration will opens tomorrow, Thursday, November 5.
Posted November 04, 2015
Oracle has announced that the new Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5-8, the latest in the X5 family of engineered systems which integrate hardware and software, is now available. The new Exadata X5-8 offers up to 576 CPU cores, more than 1.3 petabytes of disk storage or 180 terabytes of PCIe flash, and up to 24 terabytes of memory. The Oracle Exadata X5-8 is the new companion model to Oracle Exadata X5-2 and incorporates the same storage and networking capabilities of Oracle Exadata X5-2, which was announced in January 2015.
Posted November 04, 2015
Organizations are getting squeezed, said Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, in his Monday morning keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. They have old infrastructure; there is the need for innovation but also great pressure to do things such as increase security and adhere to governance mandates which are not innovative; and also pressure to keep costs flat, without increasing IT costs. "This is why the cloud is such a big deal," said Hurd, sharing his list of top 5 predictions for 2025.
Posted November 04, 2015
To kick off Oracle Open World 2015, Oracle's annual user conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison detailed the steps that led Oracle be positioned in "every layer of the cloud." Ellison outlined the top design goals for the company in all three layers of the cloud - SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These are cost, reliability, performance, standards, compatibility - as well as security, which he said is increasingly becoming a more critical concern.
Posted November 04, 2015
Dell is releasing a free version of its Statistica advanced analytics software to all U.S. college students and professors, helping to boost interest in and preparedness for data analytics careers. "Today's organizations, including institutions of higher education, depend on advanced technologies in security, data analytics and mobility to stay ahead of student and faculty needs," said Jon Phillips, managing director of worldwide education strategy at Dell.
Posted November 03, 2015
Alteryx Inc., which specializes in blending and advanced analytics, is receiving $85 million from an investment round led by firms Iconiq Capital and Insight Venture Partners, along with Meritech Capital Partners. "Tools like Alteryx are really democratizing the way people work particularly when it comes to doing predicative statistical capabilities and be able to complement that with the data prep blending that is naturally happening in Alteryx today," said George Mathew, president and COO of Alteryx. "This generational shift is something that we are most excited by."
Posted November 03, 2015
Pivotal is releasing an update to its cloud platform that will expand support for Spring Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure, .NET applications, Docker images, and application lifecycle management.
Posted November 03, 2015
MongoDB is releasing an enhanced version of its platform, giving the company the opportunity to expand its capabilities to more users. "We're opening up MongoDB to a bigger audience in the enterprise, which is to say that traditionally the people that have used MongoDB were developers building modern applications and, with this release, we are building specific tools and capabilities targeted at data scientists, business analysts, and the C suite in terms of integration to business intelligence and visualization tools," said Kelly Stirman, vice president of strategy and product marketing at MongoDB. "We're also expanding MongoDB to DBAs and operations teams with specialized interfaces that make it easier to run MongoDB at any scale."
Posted November 03, 2015
Bradmark Technologies, Inc., a provider of monitoring and performance management software for big data and enterprise databases, and mLogica, Inc. are entering a strategic partner agreement to expand and deliver integrated IT solutions and services worldwide. mLogica provides enterprise business intelligence and big data analytic solutions and services and will integrate Bradmark software in its database managed services, Big Data analytic solutions, database migration, and expert database services.
Posted October 28, 2015
Join us for this first webcast as part of our three part ASUG HANA Platform Program "How Do I Get Started? " webcast series. During our first webcast we will talk about how you can get plugged in and engaged around all things SAP HANA related.
Posted October 28, 2015
Nutanix, an enterprise computing company, is partnering with SAP, allowing customers to leverage the Nutanix web-scale infrastructure solution to run their business-critical SAP applications. Nutanix and SAP have entered into a collaborative technical support agreement designed to help give customers a more seamless support experience when optimizing their environment and resolving issues.
Posted October 28, 2015
Independent software vendor FPX has signed a strategic partnership agreement with ECENTA, a global SAP partner and consulting firm specializing in SAP's Customer Engagement and Commerce application suite. The agreement certifies ECENTA to resell and implement FPX's Smart CPQ solution within the SAP market.
Posted October 28, 2015
NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a technology integrator of advanced IT, communications, and networking solutions, has been certified for a variety of SAP services. NEC is now an SAP-certified provider of hosting, operations services, and application management services for the SAP HANA platform.
Posted October 28, 2015
SAP is ushering in a new way to master analytics in the cloud with the SAP Cloud for Analytics solution. The planned software as a service (SaaS) offering aims to bring all analytics capabilities into one solution for an unparalleled user experience.
Posted October 28, 2015
Informatica has introduced a new data management platform designed to handle data at any speed across today's hybrid IT environments, both cloud and on-premise. The new release, Informatica 10, provides enhancements across three core components - Informatica PowerCenter 10, Informatica Data Quality 10 and Informatica Data Integration Hub 10, and offers specific certified optimizations for Oracle Exadata, Oracle SuperCluster, SAP HANA, and HP Vertica.
Posted October 28, 2015
SearchYourCloud (SYC), a provider of a patented federated search and security application, is entering an OEM agreement with SAP, allowing SYC to integrate and offer the capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Platform with the SearchYourCloud Server.
Posted October 28, 2015
There's unrelenting pressure on businesses to compete on analytics and to be able to anticipate customer needs and trends ahead of the curve. Enterprises are looking to expand BI and analytics capabilities as far and wide as technologies and budgets will allow them to go. As a result, the continuing advance of analytic capabilities across the enterprise has reached a "tipping point."
Posted October 28, 2015
Oracle has announced new services - Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service - that complement Oracle's Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL Cloud Service, to form a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for big data in the cloud.
Posted October 28, 2015
The DBA's role is becoming increasingly complex and now often involves managing data both on premise and in the cloud, and in a variety of database management systems including not only traditional relational systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and others, but also new open source and NoSQL technologies, according to Gerardo Dada, vice president of product marketing, at SolarWinds.
Posted October 28, 2015
While cloud computing grows and mainframe users continue to rely on existing architecture and networks, connecting mainframe applications to new cloud services as well as existing infrastructures will become increasingly important. During SHARE in Orlando, Chris Leonard and Mayur Raga of IBM UK Laboratories Limited addressed the impact of this convergence on MQ networks.
Posted October 26, 2015
IBM said it had a tough third-quarter, with net income of $3.0 billion, down from $3.5 billion during the same period a year ago, a decrease of 14%. Total revenues for the third quarter were $19.3 billion, down 14% from the third quarter of 2014.
Posted October 26, 2015
IBM has redesigned more than 15 of the company's core analytics and commerce solutions with Apache Spark - helping to accelerate their real-time processing capabilities. IBM also announced the availability of its Spark-as-a-Service offering - IBM Analytics on Apache Spark - on IBM Bluemix following a successful 13-week beta program with more than 4,600 developers using it to build intelligent business and consumer apps fueled by data.
Posted October 26, 2015
During the Sunday keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and Brian Krzanich CEO, Intel, introduced the new Exa Your Power Program to help customers migrate Oracle Database from IBM Power systems to Oracle Engineered Systems using Intel technology.
Posted October 26, 2015
Attunity Ltd., a provider of data management software solutions, has introduced the latest version of its data replication and loading solution. Designed to accelerate enterprise big data analytics initiatives, Attunity Replicate 5.0 automates big data movement to, from and between databases, data warehouses, Hadoop and the cloud, reducing the time and labor, and ultimately the cost of making big data analytics available in real time.
Posted October 26, 2015
With the current rate of data growth, it is not inconceivable that in 3 years, we'll have 10 times the volume of data we have today. The challenge will only continue to grow, but by following the five C's of data visualization, it is possible to prepare data and present eye-opening data visualization to improve users' reporting, analytics, and overall business intelligence.
Posted October 22, 2015
Oracle provides informational resources, including educational events, webcasts, and white papers.
Posted October 21, 2015
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted October 21, 2015
IOUG wants to see you this weekend at Oracle OpenWorld! Join us for 40+ IOUG sessions on User Group Sunday, visit the IOUG Kiosk for more information on COLLABORATE 16, meet up with IOUG Director of Partner Engagement, Jim Conlon, attend a SIG meeting and more.
Posted October 21, 2015
Enterprise data security provider Protegrity has announced that it has earned Oracle Exadata Optimized status through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that Protegrity Database Protector for Oracle Exadata is recognized as having been tested and tuned on Oracle Exadata Database Machine to deliver speed, scalability and reliability to customers.
Posted October 21, 2015
AtScale, a company specializing in connecting business users to their data in Hadoop, is releasing a new version of its platform, introducing a new tool that will enhance performance of big data on Hadoop.
Posted October 21, 2015
To help companies evolve and make faster and more secure decisions based on their data insights, Dell is introducing a series of new big data and analytics solutions and services.
Posted October 21, 2015
Attivio is releasing a self-service solution designed to radically reduce the time usually required to provision the right data for analysis in Tableau.
Posted October 20, 2015
Yellowfin, a global business intelligence and analytics software company, is launching a new browser based application that will make it faster and easier to create customized analytical applications.
Posted October 20, 2015
Teradata is introducing a series of platforms that will capture streaming IoT data, land that data in Hadoop, and use advanced Aster machine learning natively in Hadoop to analyze data.
Posted October 20, 2015
Concurrent is releasing the next version of its Driven platform, enabling application performance monitoring and management across heterogeneous Hadoop and Spark environments within a single, comprehensive solution.
Posted October 20, 2015
Trifacta is bringing its Wrangler solution to users' desktops, putting intuitive, self-service data wrangling immediately into the hands of workers everywhere. "We're allowing any user to download and be able to start using Trifacta's approach to exploring and transforming data themselves in a free desktop application," said Will Davis, director of product marketing at Trifacta.
Posted October 20, 2015
In a Mainframe Insights blog post, Marcel Mitran, IBM DE and CTO IBM Systems Software Performance and Linux Ecosystem, discusses the performance and cost benefits of running MobileFirst Platform on IBM z systems, collocated with critical Systems of Record mainframe applications and data.
Posted October 14, 2015
In a three-part blog, Luis Carlos Silva, Continuous Integration Lead for z Systems and Product Manager for Compilers on POWER Systems at IBM, writes about unleashing the full potential of Linux, and how Docker complements and works on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems, making the lives of developers and release engineers easier.
Posted October 14, 2015