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What you missed in Big Data: Simplicity is king
A dataset is only as useful as a business user can make it, which is why the industry has spent the last few years trying to streamline the analytics process as much as possible. That effort crossed a new milestone last week when three separate vendors overhauled their value propositions to try and move the ...
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about productivity
The cloud-based productivity camp stole back the spotlight from the infrastructure-as-a-service titans last week after Dropbox Inc. relaunched the group messaging service gained through its acquisition of stealth startup Zulip Inc. under a free license. The move marks the latest twist in its long-running love affair with the open-source ecosystem. The file sharing giant has previously ...
StreamSets bags $12.5 from big-name VCs to simplify data transportation
Logistics have been the Achilles’ heel of many grand endeavors, and large-scale analytics projects are no exception. Moving data from different sources to a central location for processing is a challenge so monumental that several different vendors have emerged to try and tackle the problem, the newest being StreamSets Inc., which raised $12.5 million this morning ...
IBM upgrades Watson’s eyes and ears
The billion-dollar investment that IBM Corp. made in its Watson division last year is starting to bear fruit in the form of new capabilities that are rolling out to the cloud-based incarnation of the artificial intelligence this morning to help developers build smarter applications. The main addition is a computer vision service for understanding themes ...
Tamr launches its enterprise metadata catalog into public beta
There are few better ways to drive interest in a commercial software product than releasing a free demo version, which is the strategy Tamr Inc. has decided to take with its metadata catalog. That helped attract more than 300 early testers whose feedback played an important part in shaping the public beta version that is rolling out this ...
Study: Spark is outgrowing, and increasingly displacing, Hadoop
A rift is forming in the open-source ecosystem that may drastically alter the trajectory of modern analytics. Apache Spark, the speedy in-memory data crunching engine developed to take Hadoop beyond batch processing, is increasingly drifting away from the project as new use cases drive early adopters to reconsider their implementation choices. That’s the key conclusion of ...
Syncsort pulls security data from mainframes into Splunk’s log analytics platform
One of the areas where the inaccessibility of data stored in mainframes impacts organizations the most is security. With a sizable portion of the world’s transactional activity still being handled on big iron, it’s imperative to have a view of what’s happening inside, but the lack of interoperability leaves users struggling to take advantage of modern ...
Splunk retools its log analytics platform for the Internet of Things
Attendees of Splunk Inc.’s sixth annual conference in Las Vegas were greeted by a raft of updates this morning that open a new chapter in the vendor’s efforts to expand its business beyond merely providing a platform for processing machine-generated data to addressing the specific use cases that this information supports. One particular focus point ...
Oracle debuts all-in-one cloud platform for midsize companies
Oracle Corp. is broadening its plans to become a one-stop-shop for cloud services beyond large enterprises to the midmarket with the launch of a new platform that bundles three of the top operational capabilities on the CIO’s wishlist under a unified contract. It’s touted as a simpler alternative to cobbling together disparate solutions from different vendors. ...
Datiphy bags $7 million to help enterprises catch hackers faster
The accelerating migration of corporate information beyond the data center has spawned a whole crop of startups hoping to fill the void where traditional perimeter-based security can’t reach that keeps growing at a steady rate. The latest entrant is San Jose-based Datiphy Inc., which hit the radar this morning after securing a $7 million funding round ...
