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From Data Discovery to Smart Data Discovery: The Next Generation is Here

There’s Data Discovery and then there’s Smart Data Discovery. The former has become associated with discovering answers buried in Big Data in order to drive business value, whether to enhance decision-making, boost revenue, or improve the customer experience. Smart Data Discovery has been defined by Gartner as “a next-generation Data Discovery capability that provides business […]

By Mackenzie Thompson 3 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Mackenzie Thompson. Algorithms influence the rhythm of work more than workers themselves. Which is to say, the algorithms responsible for how we work do more to help than hinder us: They strengthen our ability to communicate; to respond to events; to aid first responders who deal with life-threatening events; […]

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

Hortonworks, Inc.® (NASDAQ: HDP), a leading provider of global data management solutions, announced in a recent press release the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 3.0, which delivers significant new enterprise features including containerization for faster and easier deployment of applications, and increased developer productivity. The new version of HDP enables customers to more quickly, reliably and […]

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

Attunity, Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, announced in a recent press release new product enhancements to its data integration platform that improve data governance capabilities for organizations moving data to clouds and data lakes. As these new analytic systems grow in size and scale, a lack […]

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

In a recent press release, BlueData®, provider of the leading Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, announced the new summer release for BlueData EPIC™. This release builds upon BlueData’s innovations in running large-scale distributed analytics and machine learning (ML) workloads on Docker containers, with new functionality to deliver even greater agility and cost savings for enterprise Big […]

By Paramita Ghosh 1 day ago

In an era where Business Analytics is about automating the data preparation and advanced analytics tasks, Augmented Analytics promises hopes for the future generation of Citizen Data Scientists. In Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques together achieve automated Data Preparation and Business Intelligence. This innovative technology offers sophisticated tools to […]

By Chirag Shivalker 1 day ago

Click to learn more about author Chirag Shivalker. BIG Data; though the term is coined everywhere and considered mainstream, is no longer a buzzword. However jazzy the concept of “Big Data” gets, simply having and collecting more data is no longer enough. We have now entered the space where business-oriented “Data Strategies” should be the […]

By Keith Foote 1 day ago

Archive360® announced, in a press release, “the expansion and enhancement of its industry leading intelligent information management solution, Archive2Azure™. The newly enhanced intelligent information management and archiving platform enables organizations of all sizes across virtually every industry vertical, to better capture, extend, onboard, and manage numerous types of structured and unstructured data into their Microsoft […]

By Keith Foote 1 day ago

LocoRobo Innovations recent press release states, “Straight from the planet Loopitron (aka the lab at LocoRobo Innovations, a robotics company based in Philadelphia), My Loopy, a tiny robot with a big and quirky personality, launched on Kickstarter today. Loopy is a social robot who loves to interact with his human companions. He uses Artificial Intelligence […]

Jun 21 RWDG Webinar: Using Data Governance to Improve Data Understanding

By Julie Lowery 1 week ago

DATE: June 21, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar For many data-focused initiatives to be considered successful, they require improved documented understanding of the organization’s data. Improvements in data understanding require accountability for the actions of putting clear definition […]

By Shannon Kempe 1 week ago

DATE: June 26, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Our ability to produce, ingest and store data has grown exponentially, but our ability to parse out insights from data has not. In the 90s, an organization’s data would live […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: June 27, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Data may be everywhere, but finding what you need can be downright challenging. That’s partly due to the complexity of modern information landscapes; and partly due to decades of manual […]

By Julie Lowery 2 weeks ago

DATE: June 28, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Artificial Intelligence (AI) may conjure up images of robots and science fiction. But AI has practical applications in today’s data-driven organization for product recommendation engines, customer support, inventory management, and more. To support AI in […]

By Julie Lowery 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 5, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar At one time, there were well-stated distinctions between the Chief Data Officer and Chief Analytics Officer roles. But not today. In some organizations, this role confusion actually causes serious concerns. John and Kelle will revisit […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 10, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Organizations across most industries make some attempt to utilize Data Management and Data Strategies. While most organizations have both concepts implemented, they must fully understand the difference to fully achieve their goals. This webinar will […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 11, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is hosted by: This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar This webinar will focus on key considerations in governing the Data Lake including stewardship, data ingestion, metadata management and data quality. Key topics to be […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: July 12, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar As the shortage of trained data scientists threatens to prevent firms from reaching their analytical potential, a new class of products and services is emerging that promises to relieve the stress on enterprise management. These […]

A Code Within the Coding: Data and Mobile Apps

By Mackenzie Thompson 3 hours ago

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By Cathy Nolan 2 days ago

Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Who hasn’t Googled their name at one time or another? It can be affirming, as in “Wow, they know I gave a presentation at a conference”, or scary as in “Wow, they know I have a police record!” Yes, there isn’t much they don’t know, and it’s not […]

By Don Boxley 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]

By Pete Johnson 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. A Linux shell is a Linux shell is a Linux shell. If you take that attitude, it opens up the possibility of running monolithic applications on Kubernetes. As more and more greenfield development shifts to a Microservices, Cloud-native-based architecture that’s hosted on top of container clusters, every […]

By Destiny Bertucci 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Destiny Bertucci. Imagine connecting billions of things or running autonomous vehicles at dial-up network speed. The cacophony of the connection process (remember that noise?) would be bad enough, but the latency would be even worse. To handle the digital world, Edge Computing is on the rise, and the network […]

By Seth Deland 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Seth Deland. Machine Learning seems to be the engineering industry’s latest buzzword – a technology with astonishing potential, yet one that many businesses struggle to understand, let alone embrace. Just last year, fewer than one-third (23%) of businesses had adopted any level of Machine Learning automation, and only 5% reported […]

By Rudy Brathwaite 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Rudy Brathwaite. Data conceals as much as it reveals. That is, information alone clarifies little or nothing unless you can see everything with clarity. It is not enough to believe what you see, but to know what you see is true. The only way to know such a thing is […]

By Pascal Desmarets 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Pascal Desmarets. Reality or not, the perception nowadays is that Data Modeling has become a bottleneck and doesn’t fit in an Agile Development approach. Plus, with NoSQL being “schema-less”, perception often is that there is no need for Data Modeling ahead of coding. You may pretend that it is not […]

From Data Discovery to Smart Data Discovery: The Next Generation is Here

By Jennifer Zaino 3 hours ago

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By Keith D. Foote 2 days ago

First came relational databases, which provide a useful comparison for understanding non-relational databases. Invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1970, the relational database arranges data into different rows and columns by associating a specific key for each row. Almost all relational database systems use Structured Query Language (SQL) and are remarkably complex. They are traditionally […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 1 week ago

The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]

By Jennifer Zaino 1 week ago

Data as an asset comes up a lot in conversations these days. Data Governance enters the picture because of the huge role Data Strategy plays in supporting the business strategy – and the need for that to happen without compromising data security, according to Mary Levins, Data Governance Principal at Sierra Creek Consulting. Among the […]

By Michelle Knight 1 week ago

One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

A significant issue in Enterprise Data Management today is Data Quality, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any Analytics or Business Intelligence system. In an era of automated and Self-Service Business Analytics, Data Quality has assumed even more importance as average business users do not often have […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

“Whether you’re working with Big Data, or whether you’re working with very small data sets, you always need to prepare data for anything that you’re doing with it,” said Paige Schaefer, Product Marketing Manager for Trifacta. Schaefer and colleague Matt Derda, Senior Customer Success Manager, recently talked with DATAVERSITY® about Trifacta’s Data Wrangling technologies. “Data […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

The Big Data Executive Survey released by NewVantage Partners earlier this year shows that close to three-quarters of the respondents surveyed believe they are getting measurable value from their Big Data and Artificial Intelligence projects, which the survey considers as extensions of Analytics capabilities. That number, NewVantage reports, is half again higher than in the […]

Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0 Enables Containerization and Deep Learning Workloads

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

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In a recent press release, AMAX, “a leading manufacturer of high-performance servers for AI and Deep Learning development, announced the launch of the DL-E48A, a reconfigurable single/dual root high-density GPU platform designed for AI training and inference. AMAX will be showcasing the highly anticipated solution at CVPR 2018 (Booth #304), to be held at Salt […]

By Keith Foote 2 days ago

A new press release stated Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica, “Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language, has officially launched the Wolfram Neural Net Repository. Providing immediate access to neural networks for Artificial Intelligence and machine learning applications, the repository further builds a ubiquitous layer of computational intelligence upon the Wolfram tech stack. These models are suitable […]

By Keith Foote 2 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for Machine Learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, announced new innovations to help businesses operationalize data insights faster by making data scientists and data engineers more productive. New Machine Learning capabilities make it easier for data scientists to quickly train and deploy models […]

By Keith Foote 2 days ago

The collaboration of Microsoft with Adents was recently announced in a press release. “Their efforts have developed a new unit-level product track & trace platform utilizing Blockchain and AI technology. The groundbreaking Adents NovaTrack, which debuted at VivaTech 2018 in Paris last month, offers end-to-end traceability and visibility throughout the entirety of the supply chain.” […]