Some of the latest buzz in the big data world is centered around the complexity of on-premises, Hadoop technology implementation, and so enterprises are getting restless and moving to the cloud. In an increasingly cloud-friendly business landscape, serverless computing may hold more promise than retrofitting Hadoop. More and more global businesses are moving to the […]
A Brief History of Open Source Data Technologies
Openly sharing information has been a part of human culture since the beginning of civilization. Information would be shared with the general community and the practice has had a powerful impact on the development of tools and machinery. In opposition to this practice, is the concept of ownership and control over new ideas and concepts, […]
Data Lakes: What They are and How to Use Them
Click to learn more about author Jaya Shankar Byrraju. For most companies, having data means having access to wealth. And the key to fully leveraging the wealth that data represents lies in how effectively companies harness, manage, parse, and interpret it. But first, the data must exist somewhere. Enter data lakes. These are central repositories […]
Significance of Big Data Testing in Today’s Business Environment
Click to learn more about author Parimal Kumar. Data has become the most significant asset for any organization, and thus it’s very difficult for companies and firms to survive viably without data and the right data analysis techniques. Big data is collected from multiple sources and is capable of revealing valuable information. This is why […]
Big Data Security: Challenges and Solutions
Enterprises are using big data analytics to identify business opportunities, improve performance, and drive decision-making. Many big data tools are open source and not designed with security in mind. The huge increase in data consumption leads to many data security concerns. This article explains how to leverage the potential of big data while mitigating big […]
Data Lake or Data Warehouse?
Click here to learn more about Joe deBuzna. Abandoning a data warehouse for a data lake may not be the answer. Over the last few decades, we’ve seen an explosion in the use of data warehousing within the IT industry. It was all the rage for doing analytics and reporting. Data warehouses are popular because […]
Data Orchestration Brings Your Data Closer and Makes Access Faster
Data orchestration means trying to bring order and speed to a complex Big Data ecosystem, a conglomeration of storage systems like Amazon S3, Apache HDFS, or OpenStack Swift and computation frameworks and applications such as Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce. The data stack is fragmented and performance-challenged by a proliferation of data silos. The technology […]
WANdisco LiveAnalytics Offers Constant Data Analytics during Cloud Migration
A new press release reports, “WANdisco, the LiveData company, announced today the release of LiveAnalytics to ensure uninterrupted business insights by migrating data from on-premises Hadoop environments into Spark-based analytics in the cloud, such as Databricks. LiveAnalytics uniquely allows both migrated and migrating data to be immediately and continuously available for analysis. LiveAnalytics works in […]
Big Data Ecosystem Updates: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and the Edge
One of the recent stories within the Big Data ecosystem is that Cisco is joining the AI Hardware frame with a new deep learning server powered by eight GPUs. Cisco is promising support within its AI push for Kubeflow, “which is an open source tool that makes TensorFlow compatible with the Kubernetes container orchestration engine,” […]
How Interactive Technology is Revolutionizing Data Analysis in 2019
Click to learn more about author Pippa Edelen. The 21st century has seen some big developments in data analysis. It’s seen: The birth of the cloud – arguably in 2000 The development of Big Data – in 2005 The creation of technologies such as Hadoop (2006) and Spark (2014) that allowed computation on enormous data […]