The Panama Papers. The Paradise Papers. Human trafficking. Russian social media trolls. Self-driving cars. If you’re wondering what all the above have in common, the answer is: Graph Databases. Their ability to store data connections in the service of gaining a better understanding of relationships across nodes has been recognized for use cases such as […]
Five Consistent Principles for the Changing World of Data Integration
Click to learn more about author Kevin Petrie. While few technologies sit still, Data Architecture is especially dynamic. Open source innovators and vendors continue to create new Data Lake, streaming and Cloud options for today’s enterprise architects and CIOs. With business requirements also evolving, placing solid strategic bets has rarely been more difficult. It’s therefore no […]
Hazelcast Releases IMDG 3.10 – Introducing New Data Structures, Flake ID Generator and CRDT
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Hazelcast, the open source in-memory data management company with tens of thousands of installed clusters and over 55 million server starts per month, announced that Hazelcast IMDG 3.10 is generally available as a production ready build. Major themes, which have been driven by open source community […]
Amdocs Joins the LF Deep Learning Foundation as a Founding Member
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced that it has become a founding member of the LF Deep Learning Foundation, an umbrella organization that will support and sustain open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep […]
Red Hat Brings the Power and Flexibility of Red Hat Virtualization to SAP HANA Environments
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Virtualization now supports the SAP HANA® platform, a market-leading in-memory data and application development platform for running big data workloads. Red Hat is now able to offer an operating system (Red […]
The Real Cost of Using Open Source Analytics
Click to learn more about author Dean Yao. According to a recent Forbes article, successful businesses will share “a deliberate choice in favor of leveraging Open Source technologies at the heart of their modern Data Architecture” in the near future. The article highlights how large companies like GitHub, Ford Motor Company, Macy’s, Progressive Insurance, and Netflix […]
Kubernetes 101: What Is It and What Value Does It Offer Me?
Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. If you remember a time when the de facto target for application deployments transitioned from bare metal to virtual machines (VMs), this story is going to sound familiar to you. That’s not to say that you should think of containers as VMs, only smaller, but that’s a […]
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v3.0.0 General Availability
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache® Hadoop® v3.0.0, the latest version of the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Over the past decade, Apache Hadoop has become […]
GroundWork Open Source Releases Major Update to On-Premise Monitoring Platform
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Information technology (IT) administrators overwhelmed with the variety of available tools to monitor the performance of the physical, virtual and cloud-based systems comprising their network can now have an enhanced unified view of their infrastructure with GroundWork Monitor, a comprehensive monitoring platform by GroundWork Open Source, […]
Instaclustr Launches Managed Open Source-as-a-Service Platform
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Instaclustr, offering scalable open source technologies delivered as completely managed solutions, today announced the launch of its Open Source-as-a-Service platform. This comprehensive platform offers customers across industries — and from startups to the enterprise — fully hosted and securely managed Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, Kibana, […]