It’s been yet another exciting week in the fast-paced world of analytics with a string of updates spanning the entire data processing lifecycle, from the initial collection stage all the way to the visual presentation of the insights gained along the way. It was RapidMiner that fired the opening shot with the acquisition of fellow startup and longtime strategic partner […]
Big Data and cloud computing are a perfect fit, but delivering on the potential of infinitely scalable analytics is much easier said than done. The industry is working to change that, however, and a lot of progress is being made.SAP this week introduced a simplified pricing scheme for its HANA platform that aims to make the in-memory database more accessible […]
Compuware isn’t exactly the first name you would associate with open source Big Data technologies, but the mainframe software powerhouse is determined to change that as it diversifies beyond legacy computing into new growth areas. The latest version of the company’s application performance management (APM) solution offers enhanced support for Hadoop and NoSQL, and provides increased visibility into enterprise analytics […]
These past couple of weeks have been busy for theCUBE, with a continuous stream of new and repeat guests making appearances during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV event at the Hilton Santa Clara and an equally packed agenda over at the O’Reilly Strata Conference across the street. Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s third annual Big Data Vendor […]
It’s been an exciting month for the Big Data ecosystem, with Cloudera repackaging its portfolio in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to organizations of different sizes. Two emerging players also made headlines with new solutions for developing analytical applications.Announced on Monday, the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub combines the vendor’s open source distribution with a set of “advanced components” […]
Cloudera this week delivered on its October promise to provide a centralized enterprise analytics platform with a major portfolio overhaul that introduces three new offerings and support for the fast-growing Apache Spark project. Hailed as the next big thing in Big Data by SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier, the framework executes queries up to 100 times faster than MapReduce and […]
SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier broke the news that Microsoft has chosen Satya Nadella as its third CEO last Friday, exactly ten months to the day the veteran executive appeared on theCUBE at the Accel Partners Symposium to share his vision for the modern enterprise. Nadella, who headed the software giant’s lucrative Servers and Tools division, told Wikibon Principal Research Contributor […]
Despite the deafening buzz around hyperscale and OpenStack, the Big Data ecosystem continued along on its path of growth this week, with Altiscale pulling the curtains back on a hosted platform built from the ground up to run Hadoop.The newly launched Altiscale Data Cloud is designed specifically for organizations that lack the technical expertise of their web-scale peers but face […]
Growing Big Data adoption is driving new use cases for gathering, processing and communicating information, as Hewlett-Packard demonstrated this week at its Barcelona conference. The technology titan took the wrapper off HP Earth Insights, a highly specialized analytics solution that lets ecologists work faster and more efficiently.The offering runs a custom dashboarding solution called the Wildlife Picture Index Analytics System […]
When it comes to Big Data, it’s “one thing to be able to query it, but it’s another thing to be able to actually ask that data meaningful questions,” according to Revolution Analytics head of marketing and community David Smith. The executive dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent Big Data NYC 2013 summit to discuss how his firm is helping […]
