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SAP sets out to turbo-charge real-time analytics
Seeking to take advantage of the surging interest in real-time analytics, SAP announced a landmark partnership that binds Databricks’ Apache Spark 1.0 distribution to SAP’s HANA real-time analytics platform. Databricks is a year-old startup is led by the original developers of Apache Spark, which is considered a rising star of the Hadoop ecosystem. SiliconANGLE founder John ...
Dataguise enters the governance horse race with new suite
Having established a name for itself as a provider of Big Data security tools, Dataguise is is tackling governance. The company used last week’s concluded Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Washington to announce the immediate availability of a new suite of tools aimed at making it easier for CIOs to manage policies, access ...
DataStax becomes latest vendor to jump on the Apache Spark bandwagon
The limitation of historical data analysis as a forecasting tool is spawning a rush by analytics providers to add real-time processing functionality to their offerings. DataStax, a company that sells an analytics suite based upon the Apache Cassandra NoSQL engine, is the latest to join the back. Cassandra is an open-source database that’s used to ...
Straight from the source: HP’s cloud value proposition | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard may not be as far along the hybrid computing journey as some other major data center vendors, but the company is quickly closing the gap, recently unifying its once largely fragmented cloud portfolio under the Helion brand in an important first step towards delivering a cohesive value proposition. Bobby Patrick, the driving force behind ...
What you missed in Big Data: back to bread and butter with Hadoop and NoSQL
This week saw the usual slew of updates in the Hadoop and NoSQL ecosystems, beginning with database maker RainStor unleashing an augmented version of its flagship platform that introduces new archiving capabilities for the batch processing framework. The aptly named Archive Application for Hadoop 2.0 included in RainStor 6 utilizes the company’s existing structured query ...
Enter HyperCat: consortium delivers first phase of UK-backed IoT data standard
At the most fundamental level, the objects that make up the Internet of Things are not all that different. Every connected device that shares information with the world provides a RESTful interface for others to access it, formats the data in JSON to organize the contents and utilizes HTTPS to provide protection in transit. But ...
Weekly Cloud review: analytics meet the as-a-service model
The simplicity and scalability offered by cloud computing make the model highly complementary to analytics, as evident by the fast growing amounts of business information being shipped off-premise for processing, but decision makers are only now beginning to realize that the same also holds the other way around. That recognition is rapidly picking up steam ...
Teradata juices R language in hopes of finding new growth paths
In an effort to expand beyond the increasingly challenging legacy data warehousing market, Teradata Corp. is rolling out a package of technologies that it claims remove the scalability barriers of the R graphical and statistical computing platform while significantly expanding its range of possible uses. R is the second most widely-used tool in the analytics community according to the ...
GoodData scales cloud analytics platform with HP Vertica
Cloud analytics rising star GoodData has signed up as a customer of HP Vertica to better address the performance and scalability requirements of enterprise customers amid increasing demand for its service. The deal represents a notable development in HP’s partner ecosystem, garnering support during a turbulent time of reorganization. Vertica is a high-performance columnar database ...
Dell takes another shot at convergence market with Nutanix alliance
Hot on the heels of arch-rival Hewlett-Packard’s unveiling of a slew of new enterprise and supercomputing systems at its annual Discover conference earlier this month, Dell has upped the ante with its own fresh batch of data center products. The most significant of the updates unleashed this morning was the introduction of a new converged appliance family ...
