Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop
Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous companies have invested in supporting Hadoop, and...
View ArticleKognitio Brings Big Data Experience to Business Analytics
Kognitio has been serving the analytics and data needs of organizations for more than 20 years with an in-memory analytics platform that meets many of the big-data needs of today’s organizations....
View ArticleThe Big Data in Teradata
At the recent Teradata’s annual Partners user conference, the company outlined its expanding role as a provider distributed information architecture technology. My colleague Tony Cosentino assessed...
View ArticleInformatica Optimizes Data Integration for Big Data and Cloud Computing
The technology ecosystems are expanding rapidly and the use of big data and cloud computing challenge organizations to process information efficiently and deliver consistent high-quality data. To...
View ArticleThe Big Deal in Big Data is a Big Opportunity
Big data was big news in 2012 and probably in 2013 too. The Harvard Business Review talks about it as The Management Revolution. The Wall Street Journal says Meet the New Boss: Big Data, and Big Data...
View ArticleBig Data Search is Getting Better with LucidWorks
LucidWorks addresses the growing volume of information now being stored in the enterprise and in big data with two products aimed at the enterprise with search technology. Though you may not be...
View ArticleHortonworks Takes Hadoop to the Windows of Microsoft
Business is starting to realize that taking advantage of big data is not just technically feasible but affordable by organizations of all sizes. However, as outlined in our agenda on big data and...
View ArticleEMC Looks to Be Pivotal for Big Data
The big-data landscape just got a little more interesting with the release of EMC’s Pivotal HD distribution of Hadoop. Pivotal HD takes Apache Hadoop and extends it with a data loader and command...
View ArticleInformation Optimization is a Key Benefit of Big Data Investments
Data is a commodity in business. To become useful information, data must be put into a specific business context. Without information, today’s businesses can’t function. Without the right information,...
View ArticleInformatica Establishes Order from Information Chaos
I recently attended the annual Informatica analyst summit to get the latest on that company’s strategy and plans. The data integration provider offers a portfolio of information management software...
View ArticleTeradata Brings In-Memory Computing and Data Discovery to Big Data
Teradata recently gave me a technology update and a peek into the future of its portfolio for big data, information management and business analytics at its annual technology influencer summit. The...
View ArticleCisco to Foster Smarter Network of Data by Acquiring Composite Software
Cisco Systems has announced its intent to acquire Composite Software, which provides data virtualization to help IT departments interconnect data and systems; the purchase is scheduled to complete in...
View ArticleCloudera Makes Hadoop a Big Player in Big Data
I had the pleasure of attending Cloudera’s recent analyst summit. Presenters reviewed the work the company has done since its founding six years ago and outlined its plans to use Hadoop to further...
View ArticleIntegration of Big Data Involves Challenges
Big data has great promise for many organizations today, but they also need technology to facilitate integration of various data stores, as I recently pointed out. Our big data integration benchmark...
View ArticleBig Data Research Agenda and Trends are Bolder in 2015
Big data has become a big deal as the technology industry has invested tens of billions of dollars to create the next generation of databases and data processing. After the accompanying flood of new...
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