Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
January 4, 2016
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: January 4, 2016. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
The availability of Apache Spark 1.6 was announced today. The Spark 1.6 release continues the major theme of making Spark easier to use for data applications, said Reynold Xin, co-founder at Databricks, the company behind Spark. "There are lots of improvements and new features - in fact over 1,000 - in this Spark release," said Xin.